Five party leaders have confirmed they will participate in two major televised election debates in October, the media group producing the events announced on Tuesday, August 20, 2019.
Wage growth accelerated last month to its fastest clip in more than decade, according to numbers released on Friday, August 9, 2019, from Statistics Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told Liberal supporters their party is best positioned to get major projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built because it's able to take "difficult compromise positions" between growing the economy and protecting the environment.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the economy has become such a mess under the Liberals that it would take a Conservative government five years to clean it up.
Canada's clean-energy sector is growing faster than the economy as a whole and is rivalling some of the more well known industries for jobs, a new report shows.
Corporate tax cuts would generate few, if any jobs, and result in significant overall job losses from the accompanying cuts to public spending. Much of the windfall gains from the corporate tax cuts would flow to foreign corporate owners.
The improved economy is expected to give the Trudeau government more fiscal room than anticipated in next week's pre-election budget — but a wobbly economic finish to 2018 means conditions could look much different as the October vote approaches.
The International Monetary Fund is ready to rescue Venezuela's economy, but the task will be so huge that it will require financial help from other international players, the head of the body said on Thursday, March 7, 2019.