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Canada’s study permit proof-of-funds threshold rose to $23,448 on Sept. 1, a 134 per cent jump since 2023. Here is the full cost, and who it screens out.

Ontario restarted Toronto bike lane removal on Bloor Street West on Sept. 1, but has not said how long the stretch is or who covers the city’s $48M estimate.

Metrolinx adjusts GO bus schedules Saturday and cuts rail service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines starting Sept. 8, with the reductions expected to stay in place until spring 2027. Ontario’s transportation minister calls them temporary.

Federal records for contracts under $10,000 contain averages above the $10,000 ceiling, rows duplicated across years and dozens of missing annual filings.

Bill C-14’s tougher penalties for copper theft took effect July 15 — but the 993 thefts Bell reported in H1 2026 all happened before the law existed, and the bill targeting scrap-yard resale remains stalled.

Ottawa’s contracts with an Iran ex-VP’s son despite CSIS flags match a screening gap the Auditor General documented in federal contracts two years earlier.

Two months after Alberta merged health numbers and citizenship markers onto driver’s licences, the privacy commissioner’s fraud warning remains unaddressed.

Ottawa’s new $150 disability benefit top-up starts Sept. 1 to offset DTC costs — but the law capping those same fees has sat frozen in court since 2021.

As the five-year Disaggregated Data Action Plan concludes and Budget 2025 flags Statistics Canada for a 15% cut, neither the agency nor Finance Canada will specify what happens to the program built to measure anti-Black and anti-Indigenous disparities.

The $150 CDB top-up covers Disability Tax Credit fees, but a federal ombudsperson found CRA approval waits run nearly double its own standard.