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Smokers and vapers will be the target of a new tax unveiled April 16 by Canada’s federal government. Photo Lindsay Fox/EcigaretteReviewed.com

Budget 2024: Smokers and vapers to help pay for increased drug spending

New taxes expected to curb smoking, add $1.7B to federal coffers

Smokers and vapers will be the target of a new tax unveiled April 16 by Canada’s federal government. Photo Lindsay Fox/EcigaretteReviewed.com
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Budget 2024: Capital gains hike coming as the wealthy asked to pay more

Deficit is projected to be $39.8 billion for the 2024-25 fiscal year

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Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu rises during Question Period, in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Budget 2024: $5B in Indigenous loan guarantees won’t bridge infrastructure gap

Guarantees in 2024 budget allow communities to decide which projects to invest in

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu rises during Question Period, in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
An estimated 90,000 cars are stolen each year in Canada and many of the thefts involve organized crime. file photo

Budget 2024: Criminal code changes aim to put the brakes on car theft

Increased penalties being coupled with new laws making certain theft-related tools illegal

An estimated 90,000 cars are stolen each year in Canada and many of the thefts involve organized crime. file photo
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland listens to a speaker during a news conference for a housing announcement in Vancouver, B.C., on March 27, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Budget 2024: 5 years worth of carbon rebates on the way to businesses

Rebates worth $2.5B included in budget as Liberals stand by their carbon plan

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland listens to a speaker during a news conference for a housing announcement in Vancouver, B.C., on March 27, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
More than 800 airline food service staff at Toronto’s Pearson airport have gone on strike, potentially leaving thousands of passengers without meals. Travellers make their way through Pearson International Airport in Toronto Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
More than 800 airline food service staff at Toronto’s Pearson airport have gone on strike, potentially leaving thousands of passengers without meals. Travellers make their way through Pearson International Airport in Toronto Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland arrives to a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

After weeks of teasing, Freeland to present federal budget this afternoon

Government hoping to win back disgruntled voters struggling with inflation

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland arrives to a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh insists his party’s position on carbon pricing remains unchanged, although he won’t say whether he supports making Canadians pay it on consumer items like gasoline. Singh rises during question period in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

NDP supports ‘price on pollution’, Singh avoids direct response to carbon tax

Party under pressure as Conservatives continue to push against the tax

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh insists his party’s position on carbon pricing remains unchanged, although he won’t say whether he supports making Canadians pay it on consumer items like gasoline. Singh rises during question period in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
A Quebec regional health authority says no residents were impacted after a wild turkey broke in to a long-term care centre south of Quebec City over the weekend. A wild turkey is shown at the Falardeau Zoo and refuge in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Que., on Friday, April 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Turkey runs wild inside Quebec long-term care home, no one hurt

Turkey eventually left through the window it had broken after staff locked it into empty room

A Quebec regional health authority says no residents were impacted after a wild turkey broke in to a long-term care centre south of Quebec City over the weekend. A wild turkey is shown at the Falardeau Zoo and refuge in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Que., on Friday, April 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland tries on a pair of shoes from direct-to-consumer footwear company Maguire during a pre-budget photo op in her office in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Liberals set to ‘meet the moment’, appeal to voters as budget unveiled Tuesday

Government has already announced much new spending, about to explain how they will foot the bill

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland tries on a pair of shoes from direct-to-consumer footwear company Maguire during a pre-budget photo op in her office in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Quesnel protests on April 1, call on provincial and federal governments to end the carbon tax. (Julie Dorge photo)

Early tax filers among first to receive 2024 Canada carbon rebates

Ottawa has been battling with banks about how the deposits are labelled

Quesnel protests on April 1, call on provincial and federal governments to end the carbon tax. (Julie Dorge photo)
Canadian Dental Hygienists Association is calling out a double standard in how much the government plans to pay for their services under the new federal dental plan. Ondina Love, CEO of the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association, right, and Sylvie Martel, Director of Dental Hygiene Practice, take questions during a news conference in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Hygienists want Ottawa to scrub double-standard dental payments

Independent hygienists will be reimbursed less than those working at dentist offices

Canadian Dental Hygienists Association is calling out a double standard in how much the government plans to pay for their services under the new federal dental plan. Ondina Love, CEO of the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association, right, and Sylvie Martel, Director of Dental Hygiene Practice, take questions during a news conference in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says she’s urging Israel to de-escalate rising conflicts in the Middle East and not bomb Iran in retaliation for Sunday’s thwarted airstrikes. Joly speaks with reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons before question period, in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Joly urges Israel to ‘take the win’ don’t retaliate against Iraq

‘Canada is pushing diplomatically to stop further escalation’

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says she’s urging Israel to de-escalate rising conflicts in the Middle East and not bomb Iran in retaliation for Sunday’s thwarted airstrikes. Joly speaks with reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons before question period, in Ottawa, Monday, April 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
A coroner’s inquest into the deaths of two volunteer Quebec firefighters who perished during a flood rescue last May in the Charlevoix region is underway. Rescuers carry the body of one of the two missing firefighters to a helicopter <em>in Baie-Saint-Paul, Que., Wednesday, May 3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot </em>

Couple watched rescuing firefighters topple into floodwaters, inquest told

‘They were coming to save us’: testimony begins in deaths of two Quebec firefighters

A coroner’s inquest into the deaths of two volunteer Quebec firefighters who perished during a flood rescue last May in the Charlevoix region is underway. Rescuers carry the body of one of the two missing firefighters to a helicopter <em>in Baie-Saint-Paul, Que., Wednesday, May 3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot </em>
Town residents back row from left, Karen Smith, lMarvin Torwalt, and Deloris Chometsky, and front row from left, Mayor Shelley Vallier, and town administrator Jordy Hamilton stand and sit for a photograph outside the town’s newly-built wedding chapel in Love, Sask. on Thursday, April 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

Love says everybody should be in Love (even if it feels a little flat)

Saskatchewan village embraces its name with new chapel and other ways to share the Love

Town residents back row from left, Karen Smith, lMarvin Torwalt, and Deloris Chometsky, and front row from left, Mayor Shelley Vallier, and town administrator Jordy Hamilton stand and sit for a photograph outside the town’s newly-built wedding chapel in Love, Sask. on Thursday, April 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
A Quebec zoo took advantage of last Monday’s total solar eclipse to study the behaviours of some of its animals. A Japanese macaque looks on at the Granby Zoo in Granby, Que., in a Jan. 17, 2024, handout photo. The zoo’s research and conservation department was approached by an astrophysics professor from the Université du Québec à Montréal about taking part in an animal behaviour study and collecting data on how they reacted during the rare phenomenon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Granby Zoo, Keith Bartlett

Darkness of the eclipse sheds new light on zoo animal behaviour

Animals reacted in a variety of ways — much of them unexpected as it got dark during Quebec day

A Quebec zoo took advantage of last Monday’s total solar eclipse to study the behaviours of some of its animals. A Japanese macaque looks on at the Granby Zoo in Granby, Que., in a Jan. 17, 2024, handout photo. The zoo’s research and conservation department was approached by an astrophysics professor from the Université du Québec à Montréal about taking part in an animal behaviour study and collecting data on how they reacted during the rare phenomenon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Granby Zoo, Keith Bartlett
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland listens to a speaker during a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Freeland says Ottawa is setting up a $500-million fund to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Liberals say don’t expect deficit to rise as Canada awaits federal budget

After countrywide pre-budget tour, Liberals reveal Tuesday how they’ll pay for it all

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland listens to a speaker during a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Freeland says Ottawa is setting up a $500-million fund to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
In this image released by the White House, President Joe Biden, along with members of his national security team, receive an update on an ongoing airborne attack on Israel from Iran, as they meet in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, April 13, 2024. From l-r., facing Biden are, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

G7 leaders condemn Iran attack, say they stand in full solidarity with Israel

Group said Iran’s attack ‘risks provoking an uncontrollable regional escalation’

In this image released by the White House, President Joe Biden, along with members of his national security team, receive an update on an ongoing airborne attack on Israel from Iran, as they meet in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, April 13, 2024. From l-r., facing Biden are, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns, Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)
If one thing from the foreign interference inquiry is clear, it’s that China attempted to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections. A voter casts their ballot in advance polls in Chambly, Que., Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

What we learned from the inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada’s elections

CSIS points to China as ‘the most significant’ source of foreign interference

If one thing from the foreign interference inquiry is clear, it’s that China attempted to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 elections. A voter casts their ballot in advance polls in Chambly, Que., Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
This photo provided by NOAA shows an endangered whale that has been found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of New England. The right whales number less than 360 and they are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships. The entangled whale was seen about 50 miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. (NOAA Fisheries via AP)

Right whale found entangled off U.S. coast as species struggles to survive

The animal’s population fell about 25% from 2010 to 2020

This photo provided by NOAA shows an endangered whale that has been found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of New England. The right whales number less than 360 and they are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships. The entangled whale was seen about 50 miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. (NOAA Fisheries via AP)