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Just as Canadians and the economy were settling into something resembling a trade routine with the United States, President Donald Trump this week hit Canada with an unexpected new round of 50 per cent tariffs set to take effect Aug. 19. Here, the Financial Post explains what goods are being targeted, how Trump is justifying…

It wasn’t luck when Meta Platforms Inc. announced its $13-billion, one-gigawatt AI data centre in Sturgeon County, Alta., last week; it was the result of Alberta doing the hard policy work that New York and other jurisdictions have refused to do. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a one-year moratorium on new large data…

Canada’s retail sales rose for the fifth straight month in May, with gains posted across the board. The data, published by Statistics Canada Thursday, showed total retail sales increased by one per cent to $73.7 billion that month. In volume terms, sales were up 0.3 per cent. Sales at gasoline stations and fuel vendors saw…

Labour productivity at Canadian companies increases with age, but only until workers are in their late 40s, according to a new Statistics Canada report. The rate of decline varies based on the profession, the agency said. For example, productivity peaks for employees in their late 40s in the finance and insurance sector and shows a…

Canadian homebuyers should be winners because of declining home prices , but rising mortgage rates are robbing them of that win, says a new Rates.ca report. Buyers in June needed more income to qualify for bigger mortgages, even in cities where prices fell, as affordability worsened in 11 of 13 of Canada’s largest housing markets…

A 55-year-old pastor in Florida is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claiming the tech company’s chatbot discouraged him from seeking medical care while repeatedly misdiagnosing his health problems, even using the language of his own faith against him. On Monday, Scott Winters and the law firm Tech Justice Law filed a lawsuit in…

A new paper is reviving the idea of “death by organ donation” — retrieving organs from MAID patients while they are sedated and unconscious but still alive. Current law prohibits it, due to the long-standing dead donor rule, or DDR, which holds that people must be dead before organs can be removed (the “Death Requirement”)…

“We’ve got your uncle. What do you want us to do with him?” The phone call from the Vancouver RCMP in the fall of 2024 was disconcerting, to say the least. And a little puzzling. Uncle Joe Atherton was no scofflaw. His nieces and nephews knew him as a devoted husband, an engaging raconteur, a…

The Toronto Police Service, in partnership with the RCMP, has charged a Toronto man with a terrorism offence following an investigation into alleged conduct at demonstrations in downtown Toronto, and allegedly acting “for the benefit of, and in association with, Hamas.” Police allege that on May 25 and Sept. 7, 2024, Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad, 33,…

Mark Warner, principal at MAAW Law, talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about how it’s ‘no surprise’ that Donald Trump slapped Canada with new tariffs . “I see this primarily as not somebody taking a hit on Canada. I see Donald Trump as a man who lost in the Supreme Court who’s trying to put…