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Feb 7
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Feb 1, 2025
Canada is a day away from economy-wide 25% tariffs. Today, the government gave $81.8M to nonprofit organizations across Canada to deliver mental health, 2SLGBTQI+, business support and tourism projects. That’s the equivalent cost of leasing 33 Blackhawk helicopters or 698
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Oct 31, 2025
$243.8B has been spent on Indigenous priorities since 2014. Annual federal spending rose from $10.3B (2014) to $63.9B (2024).
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May 28, 2025
🚨 BREAKING - MAIN ESTIMATES ARE OUT! The federal government is asking Parliament to approve $486B in spending for 2025-26 by the end of June. That's 8.4% more than 2024-25 spending. Before a budget is tabled.
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@canada_spends
Feb 6, 2025
Canada plans to spend >$2.4B this year on IT services across government to digitally enable government programs. That's the equivalent of hiring 12,000 Waterloo software engineer graduates at $200K per year.
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@canada_spends
Jan 9, 2025
Canada spent nearly $21B to outsource professional services in 2024. Where did the money go? A lot went to Ottawa-based IT services and management consulting companies you’ve likely never heard of. - $70M to Adirondack Information Management, a consulting company with 2-10
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Mar 12, 2025
Canada is giving $3.8M to help the Lebanese Armed Forces update their Mountain Warfare Ski School to allow for multi-gender occupancy.
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@canada_spends
Feb 16, 2025
Canada gave $5M to help a for-profit company make more cheese curds in Quebec
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@canada_spends
Apr 8, 2025
The government approved $40B in spending from April 1 - May 15 through a special warrant. This was done because Parliament is prorogued and it’s not possible to make appropriations. The only information shared with Canadians is a list of departments and the total amount.
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@canada_spends
Jun 18, 2025
In 2023-24, 13.8 cents of every tax dollar collected by the federal government was spent on Indigenous peoples, programs, and treaty settlements. Indigenous peoples make up ~5% of Canada's population. Over the past 50 years, the federal government has spent an estimated
Colin D'Mello | Global News
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Jun 18, 2025
Premier Doug Ford to First Nations: "There's going to a point where you can't just keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government. You gotta be able to take care of yourselves." Ford points to the gold mines and critical mines: "You're saying 'no, no, I don't want to
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@canada_spends
Oct 20, 2025
The average employee in the federal government makes $136K / year
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@canada_spends
Jun 10, 2025
🚨 GC STRATEGIES AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT OUT TODAY $64.5M in federal IT contracts went to a company that doesn’t do any IT work. GCStrategies was a middleman—subcontracting all the actual work. And 46% of the time, the gov’t couldn’t prove the work was even done.
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@canada_spends
Jan 22, 2025
Canada gave >$3.6B in scholarships and research grants to individuals and academic institutions last year. Strict Equity, Diversity and Inclusion mandates are imposed on all funding decisions with consequences for academic institutions that don't comply. SSHRC has awarded an
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@canada_spends
Mar 26, 2025
🔥🔥🔥BREAKING🔥🔥🔥 The new Canada Spends platform is live! We’ve redesigned the site from the ground up - with powerful, interactive visuals and clearer breakdowns of how your tax dollars are spent, department by department. Transparency has never looked this good 🚀🤩🚀
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