Investments made to build more homes for Canadians

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Edmonton – The federal government recently delivered Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation. It is a plan to build a Canada that works better for everyone, where younger generations can get ahead, where their hard work pays off, and where they can buy a home—where everyone has a fair chance at a good middle class life. Today Minister of Employment, Workforce …

Minister Ya’ara highlights budget investments in research funding 

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Winnipeg – The federal government recently delivered Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation. It is a plan to build a Canada that works better for everyone, where younger generations can get ahead, where their hard work pays off, and where they can buy a home—where everyone has a fair chance at a good middle class life. Minister of Mental Health and …

Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation

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Ottawa – Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, released Budget 2024: Fairness for Every Generation. It is a plan to build a Canada that works better for every generation, where younger generations can get ahead, where their hard work pays off, and where they can buy or rent their own home—where everyone has a fair chance at a …

Update on federal innovation policies and initiatives

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Ottawa – The Government of Canada is providing an update on federal support for Canada’s innovation ecosystem, with a focus on improving existing programs that support Canadian businesses. The government will launch consultations in January 2024 on a cost-neutral modernization of the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive program. SR&ED is a cornerstone of federal funding for innovation …

Freeland sheds light on major affordable housing project

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Vancouver – In Vancouver, Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, visited 58 West Hastings, which in May 2024 will begin welcoming its first residents into 231 new affordable rental homes for vulnerable people and low-income families. As first announced by the Deputy Prime Minister on July 28, 2021, this project was made possible in part by $45.8 …

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Minister Wilkinson Highlights the 2023 Fall Economic Statement and Related Household Energy Affordability Investments From: Natural Resources Canada News release November 29, 2023                                           Victoria, British Columbia                                   Natural …

What is Canada’s Housing Action Plan?

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Ottawa – Building the homes that Canada needs will require a great national effort—and it is an effort that the federal government is leading, bringing together provincial, territorial, and municipal governments, in partnership with home builders, financiers, community housing providers, post-secondary institutions, and Indigenous organizations and governments, to meet this great generational challenge. Federal investments are already jumpstarting housing construction …

Deputy PM gives 2023 Fall Economic Statement

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Ottawa – Canada’s Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland gave the following 2023 Fall Economic statement: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Our government was elected on a promise to deliver for the middle class. And our economic plan is focused on building an economy that works for everyone—with good jobs that people can count on. Major investments in public transit, in …

Ontario Creating Conditions for Job Growth

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Fall Economic Statement includes an additional $100 million to attract new jobs to the province TORONTO — Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, issued this statement following today’s monthly employment release by Statistics Canada, which showed that while employment in Ontario decreased in October 2023, almost 160,000 jobs have been created this year. Nationwide, 40 per …