Canada

Tariff fight takes centre stage as Ontario election campaign kicks off

Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford pitched himself Wednesday as the best steward of the economy in the face of looming tariffs, but the other party leaders say his record from the last ...

Jan 29, 2025

Ottawa revamps disaster relief program with new focus on mitigation, rebuilding

OTTAWA - The federal government is overhauling the way it reimburses provinces and territories after natural disasters, with a new focus on funding rebuilding efforts that try to prevent the same leve...

Jan 29, 2025

In the news today: Joly in Washington, mosque attack anniversary, Ontario election

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Joly to meet with U.S. counterpart Rubio Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., tod...

Jan 29, 2025

BoC expected to lower interest rates today, as forecasts predict quarter-point cut

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to make its first interest rate announcement of the year this morning. Forecasters are widely expecting a quarter-percentage-point cut. That would bring the Bank of ...

Jan 29, 2025

'Duty to remember:' Events to mark eighth anniversary of Quebec City mosque attack

MONTREAL - Only one bullet hole remains in the wall of the Centre culturel islamique de Qubec, eight years after a gunman stormed into the mosque and killed six Muslim men who had come to pray. While ...

Jan 29, 2025

Joly to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio as tariff threat looms

WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is back in Washington, D.C., today to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Canada faces the threat of devastating tariffs landing as early...

Jan 29, 2025

Privy Council had diplomats urge Denmark to expedite Carolyn Bennett's ambassadorship

OTTAWA - Bureaucrats working for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had diplomats push Denmark to speed up the appointment of former cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett as ambassador to that country - a chang...

Jan 29, 2025

Clinic ordered to pay B.C.'s costs after failure of 'marathon' private health lawsuit

VANCOUVER - A private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada's public health care system must pay the B.C. government's legal costs, after what a judge calls a...

Jan 28, 2025

Who's in and who's out of the Liberal leadership race

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are running their first leadership race in more than a decade to replace the departing Justin Trudeau. The deadline for registering to vote in the leadership contest pass...

Jan 28, 2025

Ottawa's 'meh' budget drew skepticism from public, finance department was told

OTTAWA - Vague, mediocre, "smoke and mirrors" - even "meh." Those are all words Canadians used to describe the Liberal government's last budget in a series of focus groups, summarized in a report comp...

Jan 28, 2025