Mark Carney’s austerity budget raising fears gender equality programs will end

Mark Carney’s austerity budget raising fears gender equality programs will end

Members of the Liberals' women's caucus of MPs are pressing their government to make sure funding for programs started under the previous government continue to receive funding, two Liberal insiders

Carney’s budget will get failing grade if he spends more than Trudeau

Taxpayers have a simple benchmark for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget: Spending must go down. After a decade of out-of-control spending, Carney’s budget will be a failure if he spends one dollar more than former prime minister Justin Trudeau. There’s plenty of waste to cut in Ottawa. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council takes more than $1 billion from taxpayers every year. It spent $20,000 studying the gender politics of…