Federal Budget 2015

• Promised budget funds not a quick fix for security challenges, experts warn

  Hundreds of millions of dollars of promised new security spending in the federal budget will not be an instant solution to national law-enforcement challenges, academic analysts say.

  Canada

  Apr 22, 2015
  
• Harper shrugs off Joe Oliver’s budget comment about grandchildren

  Stephen Harper shrugged off controversy Wednesday over his finance minister's assertion that potential future problems created by his budget should be left to the prime minister's granddaughter to solve.

  Canada

  Apr 22, 2015
  
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• Halifax Mayor Mike Savage pleased with some aspects of new federal budget

  Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said he was pleased by the commitment to public transit in this year's federal budget, but thinks there is one area he thinks is lacking.

  Politics

  Apr 22, 2015
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• Budget promises up to $1M for memorial for slain Moncton RCMP officers

  The federal budget allocates up to $1 million for a memorial for the three RCMP officers killed in Moncton, N.B., last year.

  Politics

  Apr 22, 2015
• New programs rolling out for Canadian immigrants to improve employment rates

  The streets in Vancouver were cold and windy when newly arrived immigrant Nick Noorani was questioning his decision to come to Canada.

  Canada

  Apr 22, 2015
• Trudeau sets sight at countering Conservative budget

  Justin Trudeau is starting to show some of his economic cards now that the Conservative government has laid its election hand on the table.

  Politics

  Apr 22, 2015
• Budget 2015: B.C. says federal budget recognizes its needs

  Finance Minister Mike De Jong says he's pleased the budget is balanced and includes incentives to support's B.C.'s bid to locate an International Maritime Centre for the shipping industry on the West Coast.

  Apr 21, 2015
• Saskatoon mayor ‘satisfied’ with 2015 federal budget

  Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison says he is satisfied with Tuesday's budget announcement out of Ottawa, calling it neither disappointing or exciting.

  Canada

  Apr 21, 2015
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• Budget 2015: Budget does triple-duty as Conservative platform and mandate

  The 518-page document Finance Minister Joe Oliver unveiled Tuesday is also the Conservative platform for the fall campaign and their strategic plan for the next mandate if they’re re-elected.

  Money

  Apr 21, 2015
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• Budget 2015: Mounties, CSIS, border agency get budget increases

  The RCMP and Canada's spy and border agencies reaped hundreds of millions of new dollars to fight terrorism in a federal budget that evoked the October killings of two Canadian soldiers.

  Canada

  Apr 21, 2015