Equalization Program News Today

President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance Nate Horner issued the following statement on the federal government’s fall economic statement:

Alberta wants to work with other provinces to improve the federal Equalization Program to benefit all Canadians.

This post on Canada's economy covers the latest statistics and trends, including GDP growth, employment rates, inflation, and more.

In November 1837, rebellion stirred in the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (modern-day Ontario and Quebec). In Lower Canada, the rebel group the Patriotes had just won the Battle of Saint-Denis against British forces and, with the news of rebel success, William Lyon Mackenzie called on rural Upper Canadians to follow suit. He distributed a handbill with the title Independence!, which began with the following passage: There have been Nineteen Strikes for Independence from European...