CBC - Politics (9 hours ago)
Family doctors use national guidelines to decide whether and when to send their patients for routine cancer screenings — but experts say Canadians' lives are at risk because those guidelines use old data, lack expert advice, and are updated too infrequently.
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Honda is set to build an electric vehicle battery plant next to its Alliston, Ont., assembly plant, which it is retooling to produce fully electric vehicles, all part of a $15-billion project that is expected to include up to $5 billion in public money.
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Ukraine's ambassador to Canada has called out the Trudeau government over a decision to grant Airbus Defence and Space a waiver that will allow the European aerospace giant to continue to use Russian titanium in the manufacture of its aircraft engines. It comes after the company vowed to find a new supplier in 2022.
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After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government would still send Canada Carbon Rebate cheques to Saskatchewan residents, despite Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's decision to stop collecting the carbon tax on natural gas or home heating, questions were raised about whether other provinces would follow suit. CTV News reached out...
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After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government would still send Canada Carbon Rebate cheques to Saskatchewan residents, despite Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's decision to stop collecting the carbon tax on natural gas or home heating, questions were raised about whether other provinces would follow suit. CTV News reached out...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting a request by doctors to reconsider his government's capital gains tax hike. The doctors warn that the tax change could undermine efforts to recruit and retain physicians in Canada and threaten the stability of the health-care system.
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A key week of negotiations kicks off Tuesday, as representatives descend on Ottawa to tackle the worldwide issue of plastic pollution. The fourth and penultimate installment of talks tees up a final session later this year in Korea, where parties hope to sign onto a binding global treaty on plastic.
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The 2024 budget is being billed as a measure to restore a "generational fairness" after decades of older Canadians getting richer and younger ones getting poorer, mostly because of housing. Economists say the problems have been a long time in the making and it will take more than one budget to restore fairness.
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The federal government announced an increase in capital gains taxes as a way to ensure the wealthiest Canadian pay their fair share. But how exactly do we determine what a "fair share" is? Especially if, as some data suggests, the wealthiest are already paying a larger share of the overall income tax burden.
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In November 2018, Justin Trudeau went to Calgary to speak to the chamber of commerce. A crowd gathered outside the venue and chanted "build that pipe.” This was one of those rare occasions where the protesters and the protested were broadly in agreement — at least in regards to one pipeline.
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The 2024 federal budget released last week includes numerous big spending promises that have garnered headlines. But, tucked into the 416-page document are also series of smaller items, such as promising to amend the law regarding infant formula and to force banks to label government rebates, that you may have missed.
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A Canadian humanitarian organization says its key water-aid truck was bombed in Gaza this week and the federal government now says it has contacted the Israeli government for "more information" on the incident. The International Development and Relief Foundation believes the truck was targeted and is calling for a full investigation.
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The 2024 federal budget released last week includes numerous big spending promises that have garnered headlines. But, tucked into the 416-page document are also series of smaller items, such as promising to amend the law regarding infant formula and to force banks to label government rebates, that you may have missed.
ReadCTV - Politics (5 days ago)
Dennis Mathu and Stephanie Gordon first started posting financial-advice videos on YouTube three years ago -- a side hustle that helped to scratch a creative itch. They never imagined it would lead them down some of the most powerful political corridors in Canada.
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The recruiting hole in which the Canadian military finds itself is deeper and potentially more serious than it might appear at first glance — in part because of all the new equipment the federal government has ordered, or plans to order in the near future.
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The federal budget's promise to spend $1.3 million to develop a regional missing persons alert for Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people falls far short of what's needed, according to opposition MPs on the House of Commons Status of Women committee.
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Health Canada will change its longstanding policy restricting gay and bisexual men from donating to sperm banks in Canada, CTV News has learned. The federal health agency has adopted a revised directive removing the ban on gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, effective May 8.
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's predecessor Bill Morneau says there was talk of increasing the capital gains tax while he was on the job — but he resisted such a change because he feared it would discourage investment by companies and job creators.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is a 'fraud' for portraying himself as a friend of the working class, the head of the country's largest labour organization said Thursday, urging unions to do everything they can to expose him before the next federal election.
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The new federal budget sets aside $2.72 billion in loans and donations for Ukraine in the current fiscal year, most of which is aimed at helping President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government keep the embattled country's finances afloat. And a lot of that money is already out the door.
ReadCTV - Politics (A week ago)
In their 2024 budget, the federal government wants to amend the Canada Labour Code, so employers in federally regulated sectors will eliminate work-related communication with employees outside of scheduled hours. If implemented, this would affect roughly 500,000 employees across the country.
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MPs enacted an extraordinary, rarely used parliamentary power on Wednesday, summonsing an ArriveCan contractor to appear before the House of Commons where he was admonished publicly and forced to provide answers to the questions MPs said he'd previously evaded.
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In an effort to level the playing field for young people, in the 2024 federal budget, the government is targeting Canada's highest earners with new taxes in order to help offset billions in new spending to enhance the country's housing supply and social supports.
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The RCMP confirmed Wednesday it had executed a search warrant at an address registered to GC Strategies. This development comes as MPs are enacting an extraordinary, rarely used parliamentary power, summoning one of its contractors to appear before the House of Commons to be admonished publicly for failing to answer questions related to the...
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