MPs’ annual office budgets for 2025-26
The office expense budget for MPs has increased by $5-million this fiscal year compared to 2024-25.
CRA has ‘eroded trust,’ Senator says, as minister tasks agency with creating 100-day improvement plan
After persistent call-centre delays, the agency has been instructed to take ‘concrete steps’ to improve service, but one tax lawyer is dismissing the ‘vague’ ministerial decree as a ‘publicity stunt.’
From aid to advantage: re-imagining Canada–Africa relations
Canada must shift its mindset from donor to long-term partner, and from symbolic gestures to strategic co-investment.
Ministers also expected to take scissors to office budgets in spending review
The challenge in cutting ministers’ budgets is ensuring their offices ‘can still do what they need to do, and only they can do,’ says former chief of staff David McLaughlin.
The return of the wildcat strike?
Recent experiences demonstrate that strategic resistance, rooted in mobilizing co-workers and communities—rather than relying on lawyers, union staff, or political parties—can achieve results in the face of restrictive legislation.
Any new industrial strategy must be an innovation strategy
Canada’s capacity for technological progress and scaling the industries of the future will be critical for our future growth prospects and much-needed gains in productivity.
Canadian decision to remove counter-tariffs cautiously applauded by advocates, some economists
Still, Canada shouldn’t expect ‘that whatever agreement we reach we can take to the bank,’ says Jim Stanford, economist and director of the Centre for Future Work.
Pea and canola sector stress urgent action needed to resolve China trade dispute as harvest approaches
‘Time is of the essence, and we can’t stress that enough,’ says Pulse Canada president Greg Cherewyk.
Ottawa must include small businesses in open banking from day one
Canada cannot afford another half-built system. In order to call this framework “open banking,” it must immediately apply to business accounts. Anything less is branding.
Feds must consider oil and gas conflicts for Canada Pension Plan appointees
It’s imperative the two spots fill a troubling gap in the current board: a complete lack of identified climate expertise, and an overabundance of oil and gas entanglements.
