The federal budget deficit in 2020-21 is an esitmated $343.2 billion.
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September 3, 2020
3:21PM
Debt interest will cost Ottawa an estimated $19.5 billion this year.
August 20, 2020
4:27PM
In the 1990s, federal debt-interest costs routinely eclipsed 30 per cent of revenues.
January 10, 2019
11:13AM
Workers aged 55 years and over hold one-fifth of the jobs in Canada.
December 21, 2018
11:07AM
Unemployment is lower than it’s been in at least 42 years.
December 21, 2018
10:39AM
Sale prices in the Greater Toronto Area at the end of 2016 were almost 110 per cent higher than a decade prior.
November 9, 2018
10:28AM
The higher-than-expected inflation of the late-1980s was one reason the bank switched to inflation targeting.
September 18, 2018
10:13AM
Household debt as a share of GDP is at a virtual all-time high.
March 14, 2018
10:22AM
The ratio of household net worth-to-GDP has risen over time.
February 1, 2018
5:00AM
In 2016-17, the deficit was $0.991 billion but $6.276 billion was added to the net debt.