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The NDP crackdown on tax havens
Categories: Budget, NDP, Taxes
An NDP government would collect billions over the next four years cracking down on offshore tax havens. Problem is, most of that has already been done.
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Union support for Conservative budget? Sort of.
Categories: Budget, Conservatives
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says the Canadian Labour Congress supported the Tories' March 22 budget, but the CLC says that's not quite true. Click through to see why.
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AUDIO: Does cutting the deficit mean cutting programs
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Taxes
AUDIO: Can the Conservatives trim an extra $11 billion from spending without cutting programs? Curt Petrovich talks to some outside experts who doubt that can happen.
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$11 billion is a big hole
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Liberals
The Conservative party managed to find an extra $11 billion in "savings" in the two and a half weeks between the budget and their platform release. Will this cash ever appear?
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VIDEO: Cutting the deficit sooner, the new Tory promise
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Stephen Harper
The budget promised no deficit by 2015-16. But now Stephen Harper says he will do it a year earlier, despite a raft of election promises. Amanda Lang parses the numbers.
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The Conservatives and health-care transfers
Categories: Budget, Conservatives, Health, Stephen Harper
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his party's been consistent about continuing health transfers to the provinces after 2014. But it is more like consistently vague.
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Video: The Liberal 'red book' platform
Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
As Amanda Lang reports, great chunks of the Conservative budget that the Liberals vowed to defeat will live on under a Liberal government. Just check out the Red Book.
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Tax breaks for volunteer firefighters - less than meets the eye
Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Harper
Both the Conservatives and Liberals are courting volunteer firefighters with a proposed tax credit. One's a little richer. Both require a close look by any claimants.
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The Liberal plan: to raise the corporate tax rate
Categories: Budget, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff
The claim: Liberals say raising the corporate tax rate to 2010 levels will pay for their social spending. As Keith Boag reports, it may not be that clear.
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Guaranteed Income Supplement: Who is helping seniors?
Categories: Budget, Seniors, Stephen Harper
As the election campaign progresses, you will be hearing much about Canada's hard-hit seniors.
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Budget scorecard: Opposition asks and gets
Categories: Budget
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the budget he delivered March 22 was not designed to appease the opposition parties.
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