DEVELOPING | Budget 2023 prioritizes pocketbook help and clean economy, deficit projected at $40.1B

A new public art installation has blossomed in a downtown Edmonton neighbourhood.
The Stadium Yards apartment complex, located near 106A Avenue and Muttart Crossing, is now home to a large interactive LED marigold.
The flower was created by Brad Hinson from the Toronto-based Studio F Minus and commissioned by The Rohit Group for the new residential mixed-use transit-oriented development.
The marigold is Edmonton's official flower, representing sunny Alberta and the city's role in the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s.
The City of Edmonton says on its website that the flower has many varieties and symbolizes the capital city's "vibrant medley of different cultures and backgrounds."
In the 2023 federal budget, the government is unveiling continued deficit spending targeted at Canadians' pocketbooks, public health care and the clean economy.
The federal budget shows the government's proposed dental-care insurance program will cost more than double what the Liberals originally thought, driving it up by another $7.3 billion over five years.
Tucked into the 2023 federal budget unveiled on Tuesday in Ottawa, the Liberals have announced plans to explore implementing a standard charging port across Canada, in an effort to save Canadians some money and reduce waste.
Serious money is heading for Canadian industries looking to reduce emissions after the federal government unveiled its answer to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act.
The federal budget proposes an across-the-board three per cent spending cut for all departments and agencies, a belt-tightening move after years of massive growth in the federal public service.
Another American community is reeling after a shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville. These are the three children and three adults whose lives were taken by the shooter.
Nashville police have released security camera footage of a suspected shooter entering the private Christian elementary school. The shooting claimed the lives of three children, all aged nine, and three adults.
Gwyneth Paltrow's highly publicized ski collision trial is shining a spotlight on the unspoken rules that govern behaviour on the slopes. Testimony over the last six days has repeatedly touched on skier's etiquette -- especially sharing contact information after a collision, and ski turn radiuses -- in what experts have said is the most high-profile ski collision trial in recent history.
The increase in excise duties on all alcoholic products is being temporarily capped at two per cent starting next month instead of a planned six per cent increase.