Canada’s revenue outlook has deteriorated since Finance Minister Jim Flaherty updated his fiscal plan in November amid signs the economy has slowed, making it more difficult to bring the budget into balance, a person with direct knowledge of the government’s budget planning said.   Read More...

Canada's economy got back on the growth track in October, albeit in the slow lane after a couple of months of flat or falling economic output. The country's gross domestic product rose the minimum 0.1 per cent, about what economists had expected, as the goods producing segment of the economy continued to struggle.   Read More...

The Harper government’s decision to cut $5.2 billion in spending and revamp the public sector pension plan was the top political story of the year for Canadians, according to a new poll.   Read More...

Almost four years removed from the start of the so-called economic recovery, 2013 could be the year Canada finally leaves the legacy of the Great Recession behind.   Read More...

In 1985, FCC established a system with 245 benchmark farm properties to monitor variations in bareland values across Canada. Since 1990, the benchmark properties have been appraised semi-annually in January and July. These selected parcels represent the most prevalent classes of agriculture soil in each part of the country. Changes in value are weighted based on cultivated farmland per area.   Read More...

The national Idle No More movement showed no signs of slowing Friday as activists and protesters across Canada brought their call for protection of First Nations rights to the streets. Peaceful gatherings took place in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Toronto and Nova Scotia.   Read More...

Nine candidates vying for the leadership of the Liberal Party participated in the first of five debates before a sold-out crowd of supporters in Vancouver on Sunday. The nine candidates running for the party's top job are MPs Marc Garneau, Joyce Murray and Justin Trudeau, former MPs Martin Cauchon and Martha Hall Findlay, lawyers David Bertschi, Deborah Coyne and George Takach, and Karen McCrimmon, a retired Lieutenant Colonel.   Read More...

The Green Party gave the NDP and the Liberals a neck cramp this fall. But it was not because Elizabeth May forced her opposition rivals to spend a by-election campaign looking over their shoulders in Victoria and Calgary Centre that she was selected by her peers as the 2012 Maclean’s Parliamentarian of the Year.   Read More...

Canada’s MPs are home for the holidays and the House of Commons is silent, as work on Parliament Hill is adjourned until the end of January. The fall sittings may have featured more than their fair share of political theatre.   Read More...

Ottawa "will vigorously lobby against" a proposal to charge every vehicle and pedestrian a fee to enter the United States at any land border crossing, says a spokeswoman for Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.   Read More...