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

A driver has been charged in a fatal crash that killed a long-standing member of Cambridge's golf community.
Brian Jolley, 47, was identified as the motorcyclist killed in the two-vehicle crash on Sept. 20 of last year.
Police say The Galt Country Club GM's motorcycle collided with a sedan at the intersection of Hwy. 6 and Wellington Road 38.
Rosalind Ferneyhough, 80, of Guelph has been charged with careless driving causing death.
Ferneyhough will appear in a Guelph court at a later date.
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.
The federal Liberal government is committing $8.7 million to hold more consultations on Indigenous resource sharing, in a budget that offers relatively little new spending on its reconciliation agenda.
In the wake of another deadly mass shooting in America, that saw children as young as nine years old shot and killed, the gun control debate is going nowhere, writes CTV News political analyst Eric Ham.
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.