Morning Update: The ins and outs of the 2025 federal budget | Unpublished
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Author: Danielle Groen
Publication Date: November 5, 2025 - 06:16

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Morning Update: The ins and outs of the 2025 federal budget

November 5, 2025

Good morning. The new federal budget offers a leaner public service, a louder military and a much bigger deficit – more on that below, along with Montreal’s transit strike and People’s Sexiest Man Alive. But first:

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A new Canadian Army equipment program that could be worth almost $500 million is designed to select only U.S.-provided equipment, despite claims by Prime Minister Mark Carney the military will be reducing purchases of American systems. Read More
December 1, 2025 - 08:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby mountains. It was an evening of dancing, drinking and lounging in a hot tub — rare luxuries for the then-28-year-old Mexican who says she lived in a cramped trailer on the farm where she worked. Feeling intoxicated, she says she went to bed alone in a nearby bedroom. Her next memory, she says, was of her boss on top of her, kissing her against her will and doing “many things to my body...
December 1, 2025 - 07:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
Nova Scotia liquor stores will once again stock booze from the United States beginning today, but for a limited time only. 
December 1, 2025 - 06:48 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada