The animal damaged the hand warmer's lithium-ion battery, which failed and ignited, causing the fire. There were no injuries ...

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One of my favourite lines from the 1993 movie Philadelphia is, “Explain this to me like I’m a six-year-old.” I’ve used that line often during my 30-plus years in the tax profession to encourage people ...

Days before MPs are set to cast their vote on the Liberal budget, interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Jason Jacques is calling the government’s accounting into question, suggesting there’s a ...

OTTAWA — Canada’s former parliamentary budget officer and the head of the International Monetary Fund are both arguing Ottawa has room to run steeper deficits in the upcoming federal budget, despite ...

Page's Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy projects a higher deficit than the current PBO for this fiscal year — roughly $90 billion — but expects that figure to decline to $70 billion by the ...

Don Drummond is fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and Stauffer-Dunning fellow at Queen’s University. Alexandre Laurin is vice-president and director of Research at C.D. Howe Institute.

Darcy joined C+D as a senior reporter in August 2025. She has been a journalist for several years, writing news and features across a range of areas, including healthcare and the pharmaceutical ...

Centre Block and the Peace Tower are seen past a metal fence along the lawn of Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang A new report from Canada’s fiscal ...

On Sept. 2, Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed Jason Jacques, a director general in the budget watchdog's office, as the interim PBO for the next six months. (Credit: Parliamentary Budget ...

There will not be a new permanent parliamentary budget officer when the budget is released this fall, the Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed. In an email, PMO spokesperson Audrey Champoux said the ...

Bed nets treated with pyrethroid insecticides are an effective way to reduce malaria transmission and have been deployed across Africa. However, mosquitoes that spread malaria are now developing ...