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Mark Carney became Canada’s 24th prime minister in March 2025 after winning the Liberal leadership and then leading the party to a plurality in the 2025 election; his government has focused on housing...
There is no authoritative claim in the provided reporting that “immigrants get $80,000 from the Canadian government” as a blanket policy; fact-check outlets show viral social posts claiming figures li...
Canada’s net-debt-to-GDP position for 2024–25 is reported as the lowest in the G7 when measured on the IMF “general government” net-debt definition that offsets public pension assets — the federal Ann...
Available reporting shows 2025 debt-to-GDP ratios for G7 members vary widely, with Japan far above 200% and several other G7 economies at or above 100% while at least one (Germany or Canada, depending...
Investigations across Canada using ground‑penetrating radar and Indigenous‑led searches have identified well over 1,300 “hits” or potential unmarked burials and multiple Indigenous nations have report...
Provincial debt-to-GDP ratios in 2024/25–2025 rose from pre‑COVID (2019/20) levels in nearly every analysis, contributing to a higher combined federal‑provincial debt‑to‑GDP share that the Fraser Inst...
There is no single official table in the provided reporting that lists “debt-to‑GDP for each province in 2025”; available sources instead give provincial snapshots, combined federal‑provincial aggrega...
Canada’s combined federal–provincial net debt is projected at roughly , while provincial debt burdens vary sharply from (Fraser Institute figures). No source in the provided material offers a direct, ...
Canada’s projected debt-to-GDP ratio for 2025 is reported inconsistently across sources: a market-data aggregator cites a , while official Canadian fiscal watchdog and government documents point to mu...
Private insurance companies in Germany and France operate inside broadly universal, contribution‑based systems: they play a dual role as both alternative (substitutive) insurers for a minority of the ...
Canada’s gross government debt has risen since 2014 in line with most G7 peers, but its net-debt position — which subtracts government financial assets from gross liabilities — looks materially strong...
In 2021 community-led ground‑penetrating radar (GPR) searches announced preliminary findings at several former residential school sites: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops) reported 215 possible unmarke...
The Human Freedom Index (HFI) 2023 (covering conditions in 2021) rates 165 jurisdictions and gives an average human freedom score of 6.75; the HFI report shows Canada ranking well above the United Sta...
Canada’s federal (accounting) debt — the difference between total liabilities and total assets — was reported at $1,236.2 billion (about $1.24 trillion) at March 31, 2024 according to the Government o...
Religious dietary restrictions in Canadian schools most commonly referenced in available reporting and guidance are halal (Islam), kosher (Judaism) and other faith-based needs such as vegetarian or po...
The available sources do not provide a single agreed-upon "national debt per capita" figure for Canada in 2025; instead they present related metrics that point to : Statistics Canada reports governmen...
won the and became president with 304 electoral votes to ’s 227 as certified by the . Clinton nonetheless won the nationwide popular vote by roughly 2.9 million votes, a divergence that made 2016 one ...
Accountability for billions in alleged federal waste in Canada is weak because institutional design, political incentives, measurement problems and selective enforcement combine to blunt consequences ...
Available reporting shows Mark Carney served as an informal economic adviser to Justin Trudeau — notably at the start of the COVID-19 crisis — but the materials supplied do not identify any released p...
Canada’s general‑government net debt was the lowest in the G7 in 2024, with IMF‑based estimates cited by the Canadian government putting net debt at roughly 11.9–14.4% of GDP depending on the product ...