government spending
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Ontario set to reveal first balanced budget in a decade
To include a host of new spending measures focused on pocketbook issues.
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Ontario cuts deficit by more than 50%, down to $1.9 billion
Provincial government had projected $4.3 billion in last year’s budget.
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Infrastructure spending slow to get out the door: PBO
A delay in government spending could affect the investments’ primary objective: to help lift Canada’s slow-growth economy.
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Federal infrastructure money to cover projects completed in three years
Costs for transit and waste-water and water-treatment projects will be eligible retroactive to April 1.
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NL’s bleak finances fuel angst for the future
Budget’s gouging of at least $3K per family is a lightning rod for fury and existential angst over the province’s future.
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Trudeau promotes spending to boost economy
PM says boosting growth-generating projects such as infrastructure would ease Canada’s economic woes.
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Ontario spending itself into economic crisis
Had spending increases been held to the rate of economic growth, Ontario would have a $4 billion surplus today.
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Smarter approach to defence spending could save $10B: report
UBC professor says the government needs to rethink major purchases like the F-35 fighter jets.
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Alberta NDP spends extra $624M
Will introduce bill to hike tax on the province’s highest earners.
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Prentice ratchets back hardline vow to cut spending
Alberta premier says budget will be accompanied by a 10-year plan that will remake how province earns and spends money.
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Moody’s casts doubt on Ontario’s plan to balance books by 2017-18
Credit agency is skeptical the province’s planned spending restraints won’t be enough to return the province to balance.
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Albertans not OK with cuts as another oil boom goes bust: NDP
Brian Mason says the Progressive Conservatives have continually failed to disconnect day-to-day spending from volatile oil prices.
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Alberta imposes cost saving measures over falling energy revenues
Premier Prentice says the government could see a $7-billion drop in resource revenue.
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CFIB says spending out of control in Manitoba municipalities
Report suggests the province’s largest municipalities have increased spending three times the rate of population growth.
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Ottawa must cap ‘reckless’ spending: finance minister
Unemployment and weak export prices remain a problem, but Oliver says the government won’t be opening its wallet.
