Canada’s Best Universities by Operating Budget: Rankings 2023
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Budget
New federal budget will include up to $8 billion in defence spending
Politics Insider for Apr. 7: Foreigners to be temporarily barred from buying homes in Canada; Ottawa to summon the Russian ambassador for tough questions over Kyiv atrocities; an Atlantic oil megaproject gets approved
Federal budget will include a surtax on banks and insurance companies
Politics Insider for Apr. 6: Jagmeet Singh says he trusts Liberals to deliver on their deal with the NDP; the polls are in on the Liberal-NDP deal; Jerry Dias is under investigation
Freeland pledges $30 billion in pandemic spending
Politics Insider for Dec 15, 2021: A major fiscal update; sobering Omicron news; and Singh pivots on Bill 21
Taking a stand against Vancouver’s real estate disaster
Terry Glavin on a B.C. budget that suggests the NDP is finally giving the province’s distorted real estate racket some long overdue attention
How Canada avoids U.S.-style government shutdowns
Canada has a failsafe that ensures the civil service continues to operate even when there’s no budget
Should Canada adopt a ’budget honesty’ charter like Australia?
Opinion: Why such a charter could be helpful to Canada’s budget process
Why budget ’gender statements’ are a bad idea
Rather than promoting shared values, they curate differences—part of a political trend that’s now wreaking havoc in the U.S.
Why some businesses might be OK with a populist Trudeau budget
A federal budget that targets income inequality with ’soak the rich’ tax hikes would anger many executives, but not all of them
How the Liberals could balance the budget—if they have the will
With the budget, the Liberals have taken a page out of the Conservative plan for program expenditures. But there are many reasons to think it won’t work.