Drug busts by the Canada Border Services Agency rose 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, according to agency data, but critics fear a shift in focus and federal budget cuts threaten Canada's effort to stop drugs from entering the country.
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AP - Failure by Congress' debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job.
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The Island's Fisheries Minister is worried about the $17.5 million in cuts to the science budget of Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
The cuts are part of Ottawa's plan to cut $57 million and 275 jobs from the federal fisheries department.
Minister Neil LeClair said P.E.I. fishermen rely on...
WASHINGTON – Republicans controlling the House are moving quickly to pass stopgap legislation to avoid a partial shutdown of the government when temporary funding runs out Friday.
Tuesday's measure would keep the government running for two weeks to buy time for the Republican House, the...
President Obama meets with Democratic and Republican leaders at the White House on November 30.
A new political reality hits Washington next week, with the first split Congress since 2004 raising questions about whether the bipartisan cooperation of the recently concluded lame-duck session can...
"Wait for it! Wait for it! Wait for it!"
That's the famous line comedian Katt Williams uses in his standup act as a signal to his audience that the punch line to one of his jokes is coming.
That could also be the motto for Republicans these days when it comes to the Democrats eventually caving...
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Washington -- Senate Democrats planned votes Saturday on two measures to extend Bush-era tax cuts for people who are not super wealthy.
Despite the realization that neither will get the 60 votes to succeed, many...
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Washington -- With Republicans steadfast in supporting an indefinite extension of all Bush-era tax cuts, Democrats in the House and the Senate moved Thursday to limit the reductions, in full, only for families making...
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Seoul, South Korea -- President Barack Obama declared Friday that his "number one priority" is preserving tax cuts for the middle class, and sharply denied that comments by his senior adviser David Axelrod suggest that his...
Biden: Tax cut issue 'simple economics'
WASHINGTON, Middle-class tax cuts enacted 10 years ago should not be permitted to expire as scheduled at the end of the year, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.
Appearing in Washington at a Middle Class Task Force meeting, Biden said the issue...
McConnell: Extend Bush-era tax cuts
WASHINGTON, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday letting some Bush-era tax cuts expire next year would be "outrageous," given the state of the economy.
The Kentucky Republican, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," said Democrats' plan to...
Greenspan: Roll back all tax cuts
NEW YORK, Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan raised eyebrows by calling for complete repeal of tax cuts made by the Bush administration, observers say.
In contrast to the White House desire to keep tax rates steady for all but the country's...
Obama backs letting tax cuts on rich expire: W.House
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama remains committed to extend Bush-era tax cuts for middle class Americans but thinks those for the wealthy ought to expire to help ease the U.S. budget deficit, the White House said on Tuesday.
Obama made the...
Osborne plans cuts in disability benefits
TORONTO, (UPI) -- Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer said in Toronto he would target disability payments as part of his budget-cutting program.
As many as 2.6 million people who receive between $104 and $138 per week would be affected by the cuts...
Panel calls for $1 trillion defense cuts
WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The United States must cut military spending dramatically to allow the government to fund other necessary programs, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Friday.
Frank released a report by a panel he created that recommends almost $1...
Gates proposes rearranging $15B
ABILENE, Kan., (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday he wants to take $15 billion from the Pentagon's bureaucracy and and use it for other purposes.
Speaking to an audience at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kan., Gates said...
Magna to temporarily lay off 725 workers at St. Thomas auto parts plant
By Kristine Owram, The Canadian Press
TORONTO - Magna International Inc. (TSX:MG.A) will temporarily lay off 725 workers at its Formet Industries truck-frame plant in St. Thomas, an industrial community in southwestern...