Canada

California looks to Canadian timber to help in fire rebuild, despite tariff threat

SACRAMENTO - California homebuilders say they will have few options but to keep buying Canadian lumber even if it's hit with 25 per cent tariffs as they rebuild thousands of homes destroyed by devasta...

Feb 05, 2025

U.S. tariff threat: Quebec furniture company lays off 115 workers after sales drop

MONTREAL - A Quebec furniture manufacturer says the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods has forced it to lay off 115 people in the province. South Shore Furniture says it's laying off 97 people a...

Feb 05, 2025

Don't take out anger at Trump by booing U.S. peewee hockey players: Quebec officials

MONTREAL - Quebec City officials are reminding the public not to boo the 11- and 12-year-old American hockey players who will be in town for a prestigious international peewee tournament that begins n...

Feb 05, 2025

Gun suspect arrested in Regina after four found dead on Saskatchewan First Nation

REGINA - Police have arrested a man accused of pointing a gun at people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan a few hours after four people were found dead in a home on another reserve. RCMP say ...

Feb 05, 2025

Mark Carney pledges to beat Trudeau's target date for meeting NATO spending benchmark

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney says he would reach Canada's NATO defence spending target by the end of the decade - two years ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's schedule. Carn...

Feb 05, 2025

International grads more likely to hold jobs below their education levels: StatCan

OTTAWA - International students who graduated from Canadian schools are more likely to be underemployed than their Canadian peers and many are living with lower incomes as a result. Statistics Canada'...

Feb 05, 2025

Prime Minister Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. summit amid threat of Trump tariffs

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. economic summit in Toronto on Friday, days after President Donald Trump said he would hold off on his threatened tariffs against Canada f...

Feb 05, 2025

Statistics Canada says merchandise trade surplus $708 million in December

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's merchandise trade surplus with the world was $708 million in December. The result compared with a revised deficit of $986 million in November and marked t...

Feb 05, 2025

Poilievre would impose life sentences for trafficking over 40 mg of fentanyl

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl. The Conserva...

Feb 05, 2025

In the news today: Canadian unity in face of tariffs, wrongful conviction reviews

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trump's threats bring Canadians together McGill University undergrad Daniel Miksha made a significant decision...

Feb 05, 2025