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Alberta is predicting a $2.4-billion budget surplus for its petro-powered economy this year, with plans to take a big bite out of its debt and put up guardrails to prevent eye-popping deficits when oil booms go bust.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's last budget before an expected spring election gives strong support to a proposed tax break for energy companies to fulfil their legal cleanup duties but doesn't tell voters how much would be spent on it.

Advocates are celebrating news British Columbia will become the first in Canada to make prescription contraception free to all residents starting April 1.

The British Columbia government’s new budget will spend more as the economy shrinks.

Deficits are in the forecast for British Columbia’s budget, but that’s not stopping the New Democrat government from spending billions on health, housing and families.

In December, Export and Development Canada advanced Irving Pulp and Paper a loan to help build a waste treatment facility it promised to build after pleading guilty to dumping improperly treated effluent into the Saint John River.

The implementation policy will streamline modern treaties, create government oversight and train a "muscle memory" in Ottawa's bureaucracy when dealing with Indigenous self-government.

A national youth homeless survey shows that 20 per cent of Canadians living without housing are between the ages of 13 and 24. Raising the Roof's "streetwear" campaign uses irony to send a message that kids should never be homeless in the first place.

BC Ferries just got $500 million in funding to keep fares low and help electrify its fleet, but critics say the provincial announcement was heavy on climate rhetoric and light on concrete details or commitment.

Startups rush to gain foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting.

This proposed Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission Act is an opportunity for wrongful conviction applications to be dealt with and reviewed in a way that upholds the integrity of our criminal justice system, says Pam Glatt of Innocence Canada.

Former civil servant Morris Rosenberg says the panel created by the protocol did not find there was foreign interference in either the 2019 or 2021 elections that compared to the scale of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

Alberta’s health minister says the new health funding deal with the federal government will dovetail with provincial reforms to the system.

British Columbia's financial status will not be as rosy as it has been over the past year, says Finance Minister Katrine Conroy, who will table the New Democrat government's budget on Tuesday.