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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has big ideas. Bigger than big. Like, Mega Big. He loves to build — the more ambitious, the better. Probably no politician in Canada is more intent on meeting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s call to “build, baby, build” than the Conservative leader. A big new highway . A big new spa…

When it comes to Canadian opinions on the war in Iran, a new poll finds that a not insignificant portion of the nation’s youngest adults believe Canada should stand with the Iranian regime in defence against the U.S. and its allies. According to recent Association for Canadian Studies polling, one-fifth (20 per cent) of respondents…

A large tanker carrying Canadian propane was resold to new buyers at least five times before it even reached its destination after leaving the B.C. coast last month — a sign of the scramble for fuel in Asia caused by the war in the Middle East. While Canadian propane cargoes are occasionally resold while in…

Canada’s  inflation rate slowed to 1.8 per cent in February, down from 2.3 per cent in January, as the end of the GST/HST holiday a year earlier caused headline inflation to decelerate. In its latest consumer price index (CPI) report released Monday, Statistics Canada said the temporary sales tax exemption, which ended on Feb. 15, 2025, “resulted…

A dispute over the future of John Risley’s CFFI Ventures Inc. has intensified as the company shifted its $1.4-billion debt restructuring into federal court following challenges from creditors who opposed a plan that would have handed the company’s assets to its largest lender. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia last week granted CFFI’s request to…

Pierre Ny St-Amand, the man who drove a bus into a Laval daycare in 2023, killing two young children and injuring six others, has been declared a high-risk accused.

The escalating conflict in the Middle East and ongoing trade tensions have pushed talk about whether the Bank of Canada might raise interest rates on Wednesday to the sidelines. Economists expect the key overnight interest rate will be held at 2.25 per cent, with some believing the current pause will last longer, even as markets…

Ranald (Big Mac) Macdonald of Guelph, Ont., fought in the First World War but his name doesn’t appear on the city’s cenotaph. Now, it will be added to the Guelph War Memorial with a small ceremony expected before Remembrance Day.

A pair of Ontario family doctors say they may have to go back to sending patient prescriptions to pharmacies by fax because a federally funded agency is doing away with an electronic system, with no clear plans for its replacement.

Americans are souring on Donald Trump’s tariffs even as the U.S. president scrambles to find new ways to impose the levies after his defeat in the Supreme Court. Trump’s main tariff tool was struck down last month when the court ruled the president did not have the authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.…