{"id":875281,"date":"2026-08-29T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875281\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:40:15","slug":"ottawa-posts-370m-deficit-for-april-to-june-2026-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875281\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa posts $370M deficit for April-to-June 2026 period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government posted a deficit of $370 million for the April-to-June period of its 2026-27 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In its monthly fiscal monitor report, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $6.28 billion for the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deficit came as revenue totalled $132.64 billion for the three-month period, up from $120.84 billion in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Program expenses excluding net actuarial losses amounted to $117.16 billion, up from $112.34 billion a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Public debt charges totalled $14.61 billion for the period, up from $13.77 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Net actuarial losses were $1.25 billion, up from $1.01 billion a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government posted a deficit of $370 million for the April-to-June period of its 2026-27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,714],"class_list":["post-875281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}