The City of Saint John's finance committee has approved a balanced budget of $158 million for 2021, without any assistance from the provincial government.

The Manitoba legislature reconvenes Wednesday for the first time since December.

The B.C. government has introduced a stay-the-course budget that has minimal new funding increases to housing and childcare, while introducing a brand new B.C. Child Opportunity Benefit that doesn’t come into effect until October 2020.