BC Budget 2021

• B.C. budget expands $10-a-day childcare, boosts pay for early childhood educators

  The NDP government's 2021 budget sees childcare spending climb by $233 million over three years, to a total of $2.3 billion by 2023-2024.

  Economy

  Apr 20, 2021
  
• B.C. budget earmarks $120M to help tourism sector recover

  The 2021 budget includes $3.25 billion in COVID-19 contingency funding -- $1.1 billion of which has been left available for unanticipated spending needs in the year to come.

  Economy

  Apr 20, 2021
  
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• B.C. budget sets aside nearly $6 billion for COVID support, forecasts $8.1-billion deficit

  The stronger economic footing is based on higher-than-expected revenues, including tax revenue as a result of strong housing and retail sales, and moderately lower spending.

  Economy

  Apr 20, 2021
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• B.C. boosts welfare rates, makes transit free for kids in 2021 budget

  B.C. is also doubling the senior's supplement, a provincial top-up to the federal Old Age Security benefit for low-income seniors, raising it by $50 per person per month.

  Economy

  Apr 20, 2021
• $500M for mental health and opioid crisis, as B.C. budget boosts health spending by $2.6B

  Health-care spending is climbing by $2.6 billion over the next three years, according to documents released Tuesday, then up to $25.4 billion by 2023-2024.

  Economy

  Apr 20, 2021
• B.C. budget to focus on COVID-19 support while tabling massive deficit

  Finance Minister Selina Robinson will read her first budget speech around 2 p.m. PT.

  Economy

  Apr 20, 2021