988 will be adopted as the official three digits for the hotline A long-anticipated three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline will come online in 2023, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said Wednesday. The CRTC said it will use 988 as the hotline’s number — the same three digits adopted for a similar hotline in the United States that launched in July. Mental health experts say Canada needs a 3-digit suicide crisis hotline Minister admits it’s taking Ottawa ‘a long time’ to set up suicide hotline MPs voted unanimouslyRead more

Resources to earn $28.4 billion in 2022-23 fiscal year Alberta’s United Conservative Party government is making the highest ever repayment of debt in the province’s history — $13.4 billion — thanks to a record-breaking surge in resource revenues. Finance Minister Jason Nixon says the repayment, as forecasted in Alberta’s first-quarter update on Wednesday, shows his government’s commitment to fiscal discipline even when the treasury is overflowing with oil and gas money. That discipline includes not restoring the benefits cut via a suspension of indexation three years ago. “We remain focused on using the surplus wisely,Read more