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That Canadian real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank at a 0.1 per cent annual rate in the first quarter after a one per cent pullback in the fourth quarter puts the classic “two negative quarters” rule in play. Then again, that is only a rough rule of thumb for recessions, not the official standard. In…

Cautious optimism is mixed with concern in the northern Saskatchewan community of Denare Beach, where more than 200 homes burned in last year’s Wolf Fire.

Canada’s workforce is shrinking, as record numbers of older Canadians retire and fewer younger workers step up to replace them. For the first time on record, outside the pandemic, the nation’s workforce will shrink more than the population this year, according to a new report from Royal Bank of Canada. As the last of that…

Hydro-Québec fought to hide parts of letters from the 1960s showing what it offered to lure a French aluminum company to the province, including its internal comments about an energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador.

OTTAWA — The Bloc Québécois is proposing to strike down legislation that it considers “antidemocratic” because it would make it more difficult to separate from Canada. On Tuesday morning, Bloc MP Christine Normandin will be tabling “An Act to repeal the Clarity Act” in the House of Commons. The bill comes after criticism from Quebec…

Canadian tech giant Shopify paid $148,595 to Kenneth Law, the Ontario man who coaxed vulnerable people to end their lives using the toxic salt and suffocation equipment he sold on the e-commerce platform. Prosecutors highlighted the company’s involvement as Law pleaded guilty in court.

A B.C. man who broke into a woman’s home and beat her with a baseball bat while her children hid nearby was awarded a reduced sentence last week because the judge was convinced the 25-year-old is “not now the person he was when he viciously and irrationally attacked” his victim. Craig Brentton Durando was granted…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Primary season is well underway in the United States, with 20 states having already held votes to nominate Republican and Democratic candidates for this year’s November midterm elections for the U.S. House of Representatives . Ottawa will be keeping a close eye on how the remaining primaries, and especially the national vote,…

New data from Statistics Canada has revealed the highest earning job sectors in the country according to average weekly wages for March 2026. The findings, which use data from the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH), show that average wages are highest in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector, where employees…

A man found not criminally responsible for killing a stranger after consuming marijuana, Percocet, cocaine and beer has been approved for a 90-day residential treatment program even though he still presents “a significant threat to the safety of the public.” Bradley House, who has been diagnosed with “opioid use disorder – in early remission in…