46 h. ago Manitoba NDP government marks mandate midpoint amid challenges to budget promise

The Manitoba government is preparing a new effort to contain spending in order to meet its promise to balance the budget.

Politics

1 week ago Stop billing taxpayers for Governor General’s clothes, watchdog urges

Despite earning $378K salary, Canada's vice-regal receives a $130,000 clothing allowance

Politics

1 week ago JARVIS: Ontario Liberals need leader who will balance budget, cut taxes

The province needs an opposition who can credibly challenge the Ford government on wasteful spending

Economics

2 w. ago Ontario not on track to balance budget, watchdog says; government disputes assertion

Ontario’s financial watchdog is projecting that the government won’t balance the budget by 2027-28, though the finance minister’s office insists it will. The financial accountability officer says in a report today that Ontario likely won’t come to balance until at least 2030. Jeffrey Novak says real GDP growth in the province is projected to slow […]

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2 w. ago Ottawa’s budget watchdog doesn’t know if government has fiscal anchors

'The deficit will absolutely be higher,' interim PBO Jason Jacques says

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3 w. ago Labor Department watchdog to audit jobs and inflation reports from embattled BLS

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says it will review how a Labor Department agency compiles and reports some of the nation’s highest profile economic data, just two days after the agency made a sharp downward revision in its estimate of the number of jobs. A spokesperson for the department’s Office of the Inspector General […]

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