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Many Canadians already squeezed by a high cost of living think the federal government’s carbon tax is making their lives even more expensive.

Canada’s federal budget, due next month, is likely to allocate billions of dollars for investing in building homes and low cost housing programs, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said on Monday.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has shot back at B.C. Premier David Eby’s comment that his plea to halt a federal carbon price increase is a “baloney factory” campaign tactic.

“If they don’t start putting money back in people’s pockets instead of filling their pockets, guess what? They’re going to get annihilated, as I’ve said before, they’re done. They’re done like dinner,” Ford said at a housing announcement in Pickering, Ont. Wednesday.

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) now trades at an all-time high against the Canadian dollar roughly seventeen months after the nation’s leader slammed digital currencies as an “irresponsible” investment.

Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney has died at the age of 84.

The Conservative politician who’s trying to take down Justin Trudeau said that if he’s elected, he would link Canada’s immigration levels to the number of homes being built.

I have to be one of the last people Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would accept year-end advice from, ahead of only his almost-certain successor, Pierre Poilievre. And I’m not really interested in helping the Liberals recover from their death spiral. But in the spirit of “country over party,” here goes.

The Canadian government will approve Royal Bank of Canada’s landmark deal to acquire HSBC Holdings Plc’s Canadian operations.

A majority of Canadians again said in December that it’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step aside from this role and as leader of the Liberal Party, but most don’t believe he will do it.

RBC chief executive Dave McKay made some of his most forceful comments yet on the importance of the federal government approving the bank’s $13.5-billion takeover of HSBC Canada as the deal attracts rising opposition.

The Bank of Canada’s public consultations on the creation of a digital Canadian dollar reveal most respondents are opposed to it.

Justin Trudeau has told his closest advisers he would not be true to himself if he quit as Liberal leader and prime minister; that he’s looking forward to fighting an election against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre; and that he believes that with two years until the next election — assuming the Liberal-NDP supply-and-confidence agreement holds — he and his party have enough runway to turn around poll numbers and win a fourth consecutive general election, a feat accomplished only by John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier.But neither Macdonald nor Laurier ever faced an electorate that was so down on the prime minister the way it is on Trudeau.New polling by Ipsos, provided exclusively to Global News, shows that nearly three in four Canadians believe Trudeau should step down now.

fall economic statement (FES), which is effectively a supplement or update to the vision laid out in the federal budget.“That is why we are making generational changes to competition law in Canada, including by cracking down on predatory pricing and other tactics that big corporations use to raise costs for Canadians,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.The FES discusses measures taken earlier this year, including Innovation Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne calling on Canada’s major grocers to find ways to stabilize prices. Like Champagne’s prior comments, the FES says further actions are not ruled out, including tax measures for the grocery sector.The document also emphasizes in-progress work on Competition Act reforms, including honing in on “predatory pricing” by large companies.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has called on the mining sector to push its own workers and advocates into parliament, so they can tear up environmental regulation she warns is jeopardising the industry’s ability to maintain its current levels of production.

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The leader the federal official Opposition is calling for immediate action against the Iranian regime, in the wake of Global News reporting revealing the extent of the Islamic republic’s interference in Canada.

Last Thursday, the House of Commons finance committee called on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to scrap the proposed merger between Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC Bank Canada. Led by Conservative MPs, who echoed media interviews given by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, the report from the 12-person committee dismissed the due diligence process used to assess proposed bank mergers.

MPs are set to vote Monday on a motion by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to have Ottawa extend its carbon price pause to all forms of home heating.

The House of Commons finance committee has asked Ottawa to reject Royal Bank of Canada’s $13.5 billion acquisition of HSBC’s domestic unit, citing the lack of competition in Canada’s financial sector.

heating oil from the carbon price for the next three years, a policy that primarily benefits residents in Atlantic Canada.Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson first said the federal pollution price will remain in place for other forms of home heating on his way into cabinet Tuesday morning.“There will be no more carve-outs coming,” Wilkinson said, who stressed Canadians on heating oil stand to save around $2,500 annually now.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre spent question period pressing Trudeau on the exemption, accusing him of doing it for political, not environmental reasons.Trudeau responded saying that eight out of 10 Canadians who use natural gas for heat get more money back from carbon rebates than they pay.NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the approach is one that divides the country.“It provides help to those that live in the ridings where the Liberals are worried about losing their seats and doesn’t provide help across the country. It’s a divisive approach,” Singh said.As an alternative, Singh called on the government to remove GST from all forms of home heating, calling it an essential as winter approaches.Premiers across the country are calling the federal carbon price exemption on home heating oil unfair as the policy announced last week primarily benefits Atlantic Canada.