Should child benefit be indexed to inflation now?

An anti-poverty group is calling on the Trudeau government to amend the Canada Child Benefit in order to keep pace with increases in the cost of living.

Campaign 2000 says the Liberals’ new income-tested benefit could fall short of its lofty goals of combating child poverty because it isn’t automatically adjusted to the increases.

Record price for Canadian painting

A painting by a member of the Group of Seven has set a new record for a Canadian painting at auction.

Mountain Forms by Lawren Harris sold at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House in Torointo yesterday for $11.2 million. That’s more than double the old record of 5 million for a painting by Paul Kane.