News Summary

• Putting Ottawa's more than 200 budget and pre-budget measures on a spreadsheet shows where their priorities really are.
• The key to budgeting, the page says, is “knowing the difference between your needs and your wants.” A downloadable spreadsheet of the federal budget, with regular updates, would be a handy thing for Minister Champagne to have.
• The Ottawa Citizen says the Department of Finance (the 17th best place to work in Ottawa) employs 963 people.
• It wouldn’t take but one or two to manage the national spreadsheet page.