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OTTAWA — The upcoming federal budget will feature a broad new strategy to boost the performance of Canadian business, including measures to allow companies to write off their new machinery and other capital costs more aggressively, National Post has learned.
Government sources confirmed that the budget, to be unveiled next week, will take aim at Canada’s lagging productivity and competitiveness, while reducing the risk and uncertainty of corporate investment.
The new strategy, largely a response to Canada’s tariff battles with the United States and China, will include changes to the...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
OTTAWA — When Mark Carney was first campaigning for the job of Liberal leader and, ultimately, prime minister, he cast himself as a political outsider.
After winning the job, Carney recruited another political outsider to join his ranks: Energy Minister Tim Hodgson.
Hodgson and Carney go way back. The prime minister tapped Hodgson to serve as his special advisor when he was appointed governor of the Bank of Canada. A former investment banker, Hodgson joined the Liberals as a political newbie and was soon handed the file of natural resources. It comes at a time when the prime...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
The 28-bed Cooperative Care Centre is at risk of shutting down after the regional council voted to cut its funding on Dec. 31, leaving community members concerned and staff looking for ways to keep the doors open.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A basketball packed with contraband, drug packets camouflaged to blend in with the environment, cellphones the size of your thumb: These are just some of the items smugglers are sneaking into prisons in Kingston, Ont., with the help of drones. A special task force is trying to stop them.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
A Montreal doctor convicted of sexual assault — and accused of sexually assaulting another seven women — attempted to shield his assets from his victims before dying by suicide, according to two lawsuits.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is embarking on a mass campaign of inspections after last year’s deadly listeria outbreak in plant-based milks, and will examine more than 2,400 food-production facilities that are licensed to operate but have not yet been inspected. The blitz, which the CFIA is calling the largest co-ordinated inspection effort ever undertaken in the manufactured-food sector, comes after an outbreak at a facility in Pickering, Ont., that killed three people in the summer of 2024, and sickened dozens more. The factory was never scrutinized for listeria protocols...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Grant Robertson, Kathryn Blaze Baum | The Globe and Mail
