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enhanced Canada Workers Benefit (CWB).Low- and modest-income Canadian workers who received the CWB in 2022 will automatically receive their advance payments from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday.The CWB is a refundable tax credit that tops up the earnings of eligible Canadians and is indexed to inflation each year to help keep up with the cost of living, according to the government.“The Canada Workers Benefit tops up the income of up to 4.2 million hardworking Canadians—because no one working full-time should be struggling to put food on the table or to pay their rent,” Freeland said in the release.Income and other circumstances are factored in when considering Canadians’ eligibility for the CWB.Canadians are eligible for the basic amount of the CWB if they meet all the following conditions: their working income is below the net income level set for their province or territory of residence; they have been a Canadian resident throughout the year; they are 19 years or older on Dec. 31, or they live with their spouse or common-law partner or their child.For CWB purposes, an eligible spouse is someone who lives with the person receiving benefits as their spouse or common-law partner on Dec.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is announcing a major Cabinet shake-up as he readies his team for the next federal election

By Steve Scherer and Fergal Smith

Justin Trudeau is expected to shuffle his cabinet Wednesday morning as issues continue to dog his Liberal government.The cabinet shuffle would come at a time when a July Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News suggested 37 per cent of Canadians said they would vote for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party if an election were held right now – a four-point jump since February.The Liberals would fall behind with 32 per cent of votes, which is one point lower than they got four months ago.Trudeau is scheduled to participate in a swearing-in ceremony of ministry members at 10:30 a.m. eastern at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, and is anticipated to speak to reporters at 12:15 p.m.

By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggren

Two more Liberal cabinet ministers have announced they are not going to be seeking re-election, as sources tell Global News a federal cabinet shuffle is expected on Wednesday.

By Nia Williams

Premier Tim Houston, adding that at least seven bridges would have to be replaced or rebuilt. "The property damage to homes ... is pretty unimaginable," he told a news conference.

By Matt McKnight

An event for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cut short in Belleville, Ont., today after nearly 100 protesters surrounded him and his motorcade.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike notice

Senior officials within Correctional Service Canada (CSC) and Public Safety Canada said the then-looming transfer of serial killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison needed to be kept “low profile” and under a “close hold” just days before it happened, internal emails show.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike notice after already halting shipments in and out of ports in Canada’s west coast region of British Columbia for nearly two weeks

Home prices in Canadian oil country are surging, driven by a rush of newcomers from abroad — as well as from more expensive markets across the nation.

Canada war zones. Yesterday, US lawmakers and several Indian-American community organisations denounced the recent attack on the Indian consulate in San Francisco and called for a thorough probe into the incident. A video by Khalistan supporters, dated July 2 and posted on Twitter, showed the act of arson at the Indian consulate in San Francisco.

Inflation, higher interest rates, and declining real estate values are worsening wealth inequality in Canada, with younger households bearing the brunt of the financial pain. The richest 20% of households controlled 67.8% of net worth in the country in the first quarter, while the bottom groups accounted for 2.7%, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday in Ottawa.

The gridlock between Liberal and Conservative supporters appears to have broken, new polling suggests, with the Tories edging slightly ahead.

NRI population has gotten so large, that sometimes it feels larger than the population of India itself. Land in any major city in the world, and all you'll see are Indian faces. Sometimes you can hear more Hindi on the streets of London, New York, Dubai and San Francisco than English.

In Quebec City, majestic stone fortifications have stood for hundreds of years, a monument to the days when French colonists erected them to keep out the enemy. Today, the city faces the opposite challenge — how to entice more outsiders to come in.

A member of the Iranian parliament has told local media the government plans to impose new punishments on women who do not wear a hijab in public, with individuals who refuse to comply after two warnings possibly having their bank accounts frozen.