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New Ontario budget 2017: What to expect today

Ontario's Liberal government will table its first balanced budget in a decade today and it's expected to be chock full of new spending, with the provincial economy firing on all cylinders and an election campaign one year away. More 5:00 AM ET

• Analysis Kathleen Wynne laying out plan to campaign from the left in 2018 Apr 25
• Analysis Why next week's Ontario budget might be Kathleen Wynne's last chance: Robert Fisher Apr 21 audio
• Finance Minister Charles Sousa hints at new measures to cool real estate market before upcoming budget Apr 21
• It won't be 'business as usual' until province funds Toronto's needs, Tory warns Sousa Mar 13

New Deal that sends Canadian bank records to IRS is 'illegal,' lawyer tells U.S. committee

An agreement that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of Canadian banking records being sent to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service could violate the U.S. constitution, a congressional subcommittee heard Wednesday. More 5:00 AM ET read comments

• Some Canadian bank record information being sent directly to IRS Apr 25
• Canadians should be told if their banking info shared with IRS, says MP Mar 17

Go Public Refugee sponsors wait a year to discover fate of Syrian family left in limbo

Members of a group sponsoring a refugee family found themselves waiting more than a year for the application to clear, only to discover that government staffing for processing applications had been slashed. More 5:00 AM ET read comments

• 'No one responds to our screams': refugee at Syrian peace rally in Regina Apr 23
• Handful of Syrian refugees paid sponsors to come to Canada, evaluation reveals Apr 21

Exclusive What 10,000 Kickstarter projects reveal about Canada's entrepreneurs

Crowdfunding sites have changed how creative entrepreneurs fund their passions. Here's what we found in the largest analysis of Canadian Kickstarter projects ever conducted. More Apr 26