OTTAWA - There is currently no parliamentary budget officer scrutinizing federal finances in Ottawa as the interim fiscal watchdog’s term expired Monday without a successor in place. The PBO is an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jason Jacques, interim Parliamentary Budget Officer, has served in the role since September. (Credit: Jason Jacques has been ...

Jason Jacques’ tenure as Canada’s interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has ended, and the Prime Minister’s Office has not yet named a successor. His stint in the top chair, which expired at 5 ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A former assistant police chief in St. Augustine, Anthony Cuthbert, is under investigation by the state attorney’s office following the discovery of financial discrepancies in ...

1:55 Federal housing program will only build 26,000 over next five years: Budget watchdog A new report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) says Prime Minister Mark Carney‘s new housing agency is ...

Build Canada Homes has been promised as a means to double the pace of housing construction, but no such plan has been presented to achieve this. (Credit: Gavin Young/Postmedia files) The Parliamentary ...

One of my favourite lines from the 1993 movie Philadelphia is, “Explain this to me like I’m a six-year-old.” I’ve used that line often during my 30-plus years in the tax profession to encourage people ...

Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques speaks with a senator as he waits to appear before the Senate Banking, Commerce and the Economy committee in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. THE ...

There are a handful of teams in MLB that have no sense of direction or have a competitive roster, and the Miami Marlins are one of those teams. Competitive one season and out of contention the next, ...

Don Drummond is fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and Stauffer-Dunning fellow at Queen’s University. Alexandre Laurin is vice-president and director of Research at C.D. Howe Institute.

Centre Block and the Peace Tower are seen past a metal fence along the lawn of Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang A new report from Canada’s fiscal ...

The parliamentary budget officer said Thursday he expects the coming fall budget will reveal a sharp increase in Ottawa’s deficit that puts the government’s previous fiscal anchors in jeopardy. Ottawa ...