From ctvtoronto.ca:

A former Ontario NDP finance minister lambasted for running a deficit to fight the recession in 1991 has given a thumbs-up to a Conservative federal deficit budget authored by a disciple of the "Common Sense Revolution."

Floyd Laughren told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday that he thinks the budget of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is "on the right track.

Globeandmail.com took another stab at live-blogging, this time with the federal budget (I previously blogged about their effort on the St. Andrew's subway shooting).

Your genial hosts were Report on Business columnist Andrew Willis, editorial page editor John Geiger and communities editor Mathew Ingram.

A commenter named cimmetry made a few observations.

At 3:23 p.m., Ingram said the following:

Mathew Ingram:  @Cimmetry: we are looking for commenters from Twitter that we can add as well as the live-blog continues

So Cimmetry got a promotion! He became a contributor to the live blog.