Pre-fab home factory, Indigenous post-secondary: 2024 federal budget highlights for the North

A new production plant for mobile homes in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, is one of several projects that will see new federal dollars head north, according to the Liberal government's latest budget, released Tuesday.The budget contains a scattering of funding for housing, food security, education and wildfire fighting in the territories, and paints a broadly rosy picture of Canada's economy as "outperforming expectations." It also notes that amid the challenges brought by higher interest rates, the co