Ottawa Observations: Monday, April 19, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Federal scene for  Monday,  April 19, 2021

 

Budget Day 2021

For this generation of Liberals, government's role is to do everything within its reach

Inclusion of tax credits in federal budget is a victory for Alberta. But details in the plan could stunt progress

Ottawa plans vacant home tax to dissuade foreign speculators, along with billions for affordable housing

With their budget's green-recovery plans, the Liberals place a big bet on large industry

Federal budget gives money to all, without a path to real economic growth

Chrystia Freeland's first budget is extremely big - and surprisingly modest

Liberals bet big that we can spend our way out of deficit problems

Not included in the federal budget: real help to cool runaway housing markets

This will be the backbone of the Liberal election platform

Ottawa ties end of financial supports to completion of COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Liberals unveil budget measures  to offset cost of tuition grants, make students debt easier to pay

Budget falls short on health, housing, provinces, cities say

Funding aims to help rebuild arts and culture industries

Ottawa proposes new spending for Indigenous peoples and communities

Ottawa proposes establishing national child-care program

Budget vows to build 'for the long term' as it promises child care cash, projects massive deficits

Budget goes big on green spending as environmentalists criticize tax credits for carbon capture

Liberals promise $30B over 5 years to create national child-care system

Liberals aim to lift 100,000 workers out of poverty with benefit boost

From a yacht tax to new levies on vacant homes and vaping - here's what new taxes Ottawa just announced

Budget sets aside almost $400M to tackle sexual misconduct in the military

Budget vows to 'build for the long term' as it promises child care cash, projects massive deficits

Liberals promise $30B over 5 years to create national child-care system

Money for seniors and vaccine production. Highlights of the Federal budget

Liberals promise $10 a day child care with a federal budget that looks beyond the pandemic

Ottawa budgets $1.5 billion extension of rapid housing program, but stops short of changes cities wanted

How will the federal budget affect your access to government aid? Some programs have been extended and eligibility requirements have been changed for others

Government announces hiring credits for businesses, aid programs for the hard-hit tourism and arts industries

Liberals bet big on economic growth to cover COVID-19's costs

Liberals top up long-term plan for affordable housing

Chrystia Freeland's historic budget balancing act: plugging pandemic holes while kick-starting the recovery

For Justin Trudeau, finding the money to keep his promises is only half the battle

Liberals focus on clean technology for climate spending

Liberals pledge $30B for child care with eye to reducing feeds

Freeland unveils Trudeau's $100 Billion election bribe

Trudeau-Freeland budget discounts cost of organized crime

Liberals extend COVID-19 aid with election top of mind

Trudeau budget packed with poor policy

Red ink as far as the eye can see

Federal budget pledges $101 billion for child care and recovery spending as debt ration skyrockets

Trudeau government's federal budget enters housing fray with tax on foreign owners

Few Canadians miss out on federal budget bonanza, from students to the unemployed

Federal budget 2021 keeps COVID-19 benefits in place - but CRB will be less come July

A federal budget for you? No, it's out to crush the NDP and shame Conservatives

Liberal budget marks a major shift towards centralized state planning

Without this federal finances would be in pretty good shape

There are no more fiscal anchors holding back the Liberals after this budget

The Liberals' massive, historic, very costly bet on childcare

Can the government convert all that shiny new spending into results?

The Liberal path out of the pandemic and back to work

20 ways it could affect your wallet

Welcome back standard operating procedures 

All that red ink

Shipwrecks and yacht taxes: 10 things you might have missed in the federal budget

Canada's plans to deal with COVID-19 deficit, childcare spark questions

Canada budget 2021 sees Liberals top up long-term plan for affordable housing

Liberals pledge near $17B to promote green recovery in Canada after COVID-19

Canada's federal budget promises over $75M to help fight sexual misconduct in military

Liberals pledge near $18B for Indigenous communities in 2021 federal budget

Federal budget delivers big promises on childcare, tamer housing measures

Liberals eye 'lost generation' risk with sweeping COVID-19 recovery plan

What's missing as feds say no to new GST hike , universal basic income

Surf's up! The Liberals' Third Wave Budget

Canadians held in China / China tens                         

Canada's top soldier says the West faces being outmatched in military defence by China 

Federally funded Canadian museum to shine a light on 'genocide in China' this week

It's time for Canada to embrace democratic, imperilled Taiwan, experts say

Lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou ask judge for adjournment in final extradition hearings

Meng Wanzhou claims delay in extradition case needed to review documents that could turn case 'on its head'

The Global Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Ontario hospitals relying on patient transfers to cope with crush of COVID-19 cases

BC imposing travel restrictions within province as COVID-19 cases threaten hospital services

Our actions can help pull Canada's health care system back from the brink 

BC, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario lower age limits for AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Trudeau pledges more health care workers , rapid testing for pandemic battered Ontario

BC announces new travel restrictions to contain conroavirus, lowers age for AstraZeneca vaccine

Demand for AstraZeneca at pharmacies soars as the eligible age drops to 40

Forget provincial travel bans, BC wants to lock people inside their health regions

Fine, fussy Boomers, we'll take your AstraZeneca vaccine

Why AstraZeneca's eligibility has changed in some provinces, how to get a shot

BC extends restrictions through May long weekend, planning travel restrictions

BC to implement random roadside checks to restrict provincial travel

Toddler with pre-existing conditions becomes youngest person in BC to die of COVID-19

BC reports 2,960 new COVID-19 cases over three days as hospitalizations hit record highs

Youngest death in province, hospitalization concerns heightened ...

BC changes COVID Course: Travel band and vaccine for those over 40

Globe and Mail

Alberta restaurants have banded together to weather COVDI-19 shutdowns

What can CERB teach Canada about establishing a universal basic income? Very little

CBC
 

Rogers says service starting to return after Canada-wide wireless outage

Yukon NDP win final riding by rare drawing of lots, maintaining Liberal, Yukon tie in assembly

Bold climate targets matter as Canada gears up for US summit, but real action matters more

Why downtown offices aren't obsolete, even after a pandemic

Toronto Star

 

Doug Ford's Tories pan the Trudeau Liberals' budget 

'The damage has been done by Ontario's short-lived plan for arbitrary police stops, experts say

'We need to do a better job': Doug Ford's government admits it made mistakes with COVID-19 measures

Doug Ford may be an incompetent premier, but he's not illegitimate

Is O'Toole's carbon tax the final nail in Kenney's coffin?

Toronto Sun

Ford pushes ahead with GTA's badly-needed Highway 413

India shuts down, we keep taking flights

Ontarians were pushed too far - they finally pushed back

Shut out unions get their day in court against city

Some service resuming following Rogers outage

The cops in Ontario were the good guys this weekend

Kinsella's ER PR advice for Ford, listen to Australia

National Post

Doug Ford's bungling of the third wave is distracting from Justin Trudeau's many failures

Ontarians finally discover a breaking point for the lockdown abuse they'll tolerate

Amid surging cases and 'double mutant'  variant, flights from India touch down in Canada

What the Conservative climate plan should have said

No charitable definition for Doug Ford's response

Maclean's

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Global

BC to introduce legislation requiring employees to pay workers who miss shifts for COVID vaccine

No WHL playoffs for 2020-21 season due to COVID-19 restrictions

51% of survey respondents think Penticton should launch legal battle against BC in shelter dispute

'Incredibly irresponsible': Large crowd parties at English Bay Sunday night

Wildfire burning northwest of Merrit prompts evacuation alerts

Yukon Liberals seek to form minority government after losing final seat to NDP by draw

Miscellaneous            

 

TD Economics forecasts 'some cooling' in a real estate market by second half of 2021

Once a symbol of gentrification, Burns Block will house homeless women 

Internal emails reveal RCMP's fragmented response to Missing and Murdered Indigenous women

Renewable electricity is coming on strong