March 30, 2023

GOOD MORNING

A new grocery rebate designed to offset food inflation, amendments to legislation on Canada’s ban on foreign homebuyers, and Alberta’s premier was heard on a call with a COVID-19 protester.

Here's what you need to know to start your day.

Grocery rebate

To help offset rising living expenses, the Government of Canada has built some benefit increases and fee reductions into its 2023 budget. Among these measures is a new grocery rebate in the form of a one-time payment for middle- and low-income Canadians that is designed to offset food inflation.

Foreign homebuyers

Announced on March 27 by Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Ahmed Hussen, the changes to Canada’s Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act primarily affect work permit holders, as well as public and private corporations partially owned by foreigners.

'Leave this with me'

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in a leaked cellphone call, commiserated with a COVID-19 protester about his trial while divulging to him there was an internal dispute over how Crown prosecutors were handling COVID-19 cases.

Mass Casualty Commission

The public inquiry that investigated the April 2020 mass murder of 22 people in Nova Scotia is releasing its final report today..

Official identification

After 13 months of fighting, the parents of a Campbell River, B.C., boy have received a birth certificate that accurately reflects the spelling of his name..

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