Start your day with FirstUp, the Star's morning news digest: Trudeau’s $19B about-face + Toronto police board votes for $48M budget increase
Good morning. This is the Tuesday, Jan. 10 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign upHere’s the latest on plans to buy F-35 fighter jets, financial hardship ahead for homeowners and the Toronto police budget.In a massive about-face, the Trudeau government will spend $19 billion on F-35 fighter jets
With the full price tag set to soar as high as $70 billion over the next few decades, the Trudeau government will now invest in what it once dismissed as an unnecessary tax nightmare for Canadians, Stephanie Levitz reports. “As our world grows darker, with Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasingly assertive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific, this project has taken on heightened significance,” Defence Minister Anita Anand said Monday.
Amid blistering criticism, the Toronto Police Board has voted unanimously to increase the force’s budget The Toronto Police Services Board has voted to add $48 million to the police budget — as proposed by Mayor John Tory — which would bring its total to $1.16 billion. The 4.3 per cent increase is nearly double the boost police received in 2022, making it the biggest increase since the beginning of the pandemic, Jennifer Pagliaro reports.
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