Here are the changes coming to Quebec in 2025
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With the new year just days away, here is a look at the changes that are in store for Quebecers in 2025.
With the new year just days away, here is a look at some of the changes that are in store for Quebecers in 2025.
In November, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) updated the federal income tax brackets to reflect adjustments for inflation. While federal tax rates remain the same, the income thresholds for each bracket have shifted.
With the adoption of Bill 68 in October, employers can no longer require a medical certificate for an employee’s first three absences due to illness, each lasting three consecutive days or fewer, within a year.
Since the fall, students in the province no longer need to provide a medical certificate when absent due to illness for fewer than five days.
Parents beware as of Jan. 1, 2025, the daily rate for subsidized childcare services will increase from $9.10 to $9.35.
Drivers looking to take advantage of the “Go Green” (Roulez vert) subsidy program to purchase an electric vehicle must do so in January, as the program will be temporarily suspended starting Feb. 1. The government cited “significant” demand as the reason for the pause. The program is set to resume in April after the next provincial budget, but it will be scaled back across the board until its termination in 2026.
In May, the Montreal metropolitan community (CMM) announced that the vehicle registration rate would increase to $150 to fund public transportation in Montreal. The current rate stands at a much lower $59. In total, 82 municipalities will be affected by the hike.
A judge is expected to rule in June on a proposed settlement for a class-action lawsuit about the 2015 crash landing of an Air Canada flight in Halifax.
Six suspects are facing a combined 30 charges after police say they busted a “violent” criminal network that was targeting luxury vehicles across the Greater Toronto Area and shipping them to Africa.
A fatal collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday is drawing attention to the strict protocols that pilots, groundcrew and air traffic controllers follow to land planes safely.
Epcor says a chlorinelike smell or taste to Edmonton’s water is the natural result of treating spring runoff and that the water is still safe to drink.
Almost 13 years after the City of Calgary suffered its historic flood, six properties along the city’s Elbow River are now being sold.
Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating an overnight shooting at a business in the city’s Cloverdale area.
Nearly 15,000 full-time equivalent positions will be cut in federal departments over the next three years, as part of the federal government’s plan to find $60 billion in savings by 2029.
Police in Timmins have released photos of an 18-year-old suspect wanted for shooting a man to death last November.
A crossing guard is being treated for serious injuries after he was struck by a vehicle during the morning commute in Barrhaven.
British Columbia’s river forecaster has rescinded the high streamflow advisories that covered southern parts of the province after heavy rains last week.
It’s an extra long March Break for some students in Nova Scotia following a spring snowfall.
Ontario to seize ownership of Toronto Island Airport lands and declare it is a special economic zone
Premier Doug Ford says the provincial government will be seizing ownership of city-owned lands at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport and declaring it a special economic zone, invoking new powers that will allow it to override environmental and other regulations.
Saskatchewan’s highest court has dismissed an appeal in the case of a years-long land dispute between the Village of Buena Vista and local landowners.