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Canada’s 2021 budget released Monday includes billions of dollars in spending to support residents through the COVID-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland walked Canadians through the document from Queen’s Park, which contains more than $101 billion in new spending over the next four years. “This budget is about healing the wounds from COVID-19,” Freeland said. “The goal is to meet the urgent needs of today and to build for the long term.” The deficit for 2020-21 should sit at $354.2 billion. The sum is projected to decrease in the 2021-22 fiscal year. Childcare The 2021...

Staff In its 2021 budget on Monday, the federal government said it’s proposing nearly $30 billion over the next five years towards a national community-based childcare system. The budget stated that starting in 2021/2022, an investment of up to $27.2 billion over five years will bring the federal government to a 50/50 share of childcare costs with provincial and territorial governments, as part of initial five-year agreements. Future objectives and distribution of funding starting in year six would be determined based on an understanding of need and progress achieved as part of this initial...

  OTTAWA -- The federal government unveiled its long-awaited spring budget on Monday, with a focus on navigating taxpayers out of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and embarking on the long road to economic recovery, with specific attention paid to the most vulnerable. CTVNews.ca has analyzed the document and identified the key items that, if passed in Parliament, will impact Canadian businesses, workers, families, students, and seniors. Here’s how the Liberals’ pandemic exit strategy impacts you: IS THE COST OF CHILD CARE A FINANCIAL STRAIN? Canadian families across the cou...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he hopes the next few months are “the final stretch of the crisis”.

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Mar 3, 2021 5:53pm The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arriving in Canada on March 3 (Bill Blair via Twitter) Today’s Evening Brief is brought to you by Internet Society Canada Chapter. This Thursday, join us for a discussion about a new Angus Reid Institute poll on Canadians’ experiences using government digital platforms and their expectations of government digital transformation. Register now. Good evening to you. It’s wheels down for the first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. Nearly 500,0...