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Ford’s fight against Trump enters tougher phase as Ontario faces job losses and trade uncertainty
A year after winning a third-straight majority government on a pledge to “protect Ontario’ from U.S. tariffs, the fight against Donald Trump continues to fuel Doug Ford’s policy and politics. And experts watching the province’s struggling economy say the year ahead may prove even more challenging for the Ford government as key trade talks between…
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Posthaste: Canada’s housing affordability ‘crisis’ spreads, but this city is still a bright spot, says CMHC
Canada’s affordable housing plight once centred on Toronto and Vancouver , but that’s changed with the “crisis” having spread to Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax, says Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp . (CMHC). “It’s clear the crisis is no longer limited to Toronto and Vancouver,” it said in a report released on Feb. 25. Based on…
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20 Surrey, B.C., school teachers have their licences suspended after crucial emails sent to spam folder
The president of the Surrey Teachers’ Association said the teachers missed critical emails about updating their criminal record checks because the notice went to their spam folders.
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Canada’s economy shrinks, dragging 2025 growth to slowest pace since height of pandemic
Canada’s economy lost momentum at the end of last year as real gross domestic product (GDP) declined 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, Statistics Canada said Friday, and annual growth dropped to its slowest pace since 2020. GDP expanded by just 1.7 per cent in 2025, the agency said, a result of lower exports,…
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Don Braid: A bleak budget signals deep trouble for years, cuts to come
Alberta budgets follow a cinematic format — the good, the bad or the ugly. The latest is a pile of bad news unlike anything seen since the oil crash of the teens or the fiscal crisis in the oughts. Four years of deficits are expected. Not just little ones. These deficits will add $28 billion…
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Brady Tkachuk denies insulting Canada after White House shares video: ‘It’s clearly fake’
Brady Tkachuk, a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team this year, has denied that he insulted Canada after a TikTok video posted by the White House made it look like he very much did. In the video, which was posted to the White House TikTok account this week, Tkachuk is at a…
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Netflix drops bid for Warner Bros., leaving Paramount the winner
Netflix Inc. dropped out of the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., clearing the way for rival bidder Paramount Skydance Corp. to clinch its US$111 billion deal for the historic Hollywood studio. The streaming industry leader said that while it believed its deal would have passed muster with regulators and created shareholder value, it…
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2 sea lions from Marineland get new home at Vancouver Aquarium
The sea lions were recently moved to the Vancouver Aquarium as part of Canada’s Accredited Zoos and Aquariums’ effort to find long-term homes for animals previously located at Marineland, the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont.
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Alberta hockey players killed in highway crash remembered as ‘bright lights’
Best friends Kayla Peacock and Danica Hills dreamed of moving from Hinton to Edmonton after graduation. Those dreams were cut short Monday when the teens died in a crash near Jasper after leaving hockey practice. The hockey community will gather to honour the teens at two upcoming games.
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Frozen blueberries sold in Canada and U.S. recalled over potentially fatal listeria contamination
A recall for 55,689 pounds (2,526 kgs) of frozen blueberries distributed in Canada and the U.S. was issued over potentially life-threatening risk of listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration . The potentially high-risk product was recalled by Salem, U.S.-based Oregon Potato Company and sold across Canada and in U.S. states…