Ottawa’s new telecom rules could take effect by June
Federal budget reiterated Tory plan to relax foreign investment rules for telecom companies with a market share of 10% or less
Ottawa embraces notion that governments can pick innovation winners and losers
Federal budget reworks model for funding research and development to offer more grants, fewer tax breaks
Federal budget
Flaherty not giving up on national securities regulator
Federal budget indicates government is now consulting with provinces, territories about alternatives
Federal Budget
Small business reaction to the federal budget
We asked five entrepreneurs and industry watchers to weigh in on the government’s Economic Action Plan 2012
Women in business
Tories to create advisory council to promote women as corporate directors
Federal budget said it will work with private sector to ‘link corporations to a network of women’ in Canada
Budget provision to require companies insure long-term disability
Move won’t apply to provincially regulated corporations
Tory budget axes 19,200 public-service jobs
The federal government plans to eliminate 19,200 public service jobs by 2015, including 600 executive positions.
Ottawa to speed environmental reviews for energy projects
Lays out time limits for environmental reviews; steps up fight with oil patch foes by imposing tougher scrutiny of green charities
Ottawa moves to end foreign company ‘debt-dumping’
Presently, foreign multinationals have been allowed to loan money to their Canadian subsidiaries to avoid paying taxes
Federal Budget
Small business measures 'a step in the right direction'
Extension of job-creation incentive will affect almost half a million companies
Rob Carrick
Get ready for savings angst after budget
Age to qualify for OAS rises to 67 but will not affect current retirees and people aged 54 or older
Barrie McKenna
Tories target lagging innovation with funding overhaul
Budget cuts R&D tax credits in favour of direct grants for businesses
OECD report offers brighter outlook for Canadian, U.S. economies
International agency predicts Canadian annual growth rate of 2.5% for first half of 2012 as U.S. rebound firms, but urges caution on policy moves
Proposed streamlining of Ottawa’s lab-funding system worries researchers
Scientists’ anxiety ramped up by fears the arm’s length agency directing the grant application changes will be cut in Thursday’s federal budget
Budget to give small business a leg up in creating jobs
Thursday’s federal fiscal plan includes a one-year extension of temporary hiring credit
Federal budget proposals aim to streamline resources regulatory system
Industry is looking for a number of changes that could dramatically change the way Canada examines the environmental impacts of energy and mining projects
Budget 2012
Tories seek to spur corporate R&D spending with new budget
Science and Technology Minister plans to shift government money away from tax credits and toward direct funding of business research
Provinces’ budgets get a lifeline from resource royalties
The high demand for commodities is producing rosy projections for the economies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec
