Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday a suite of new measures to support sectors of the economy hit hardest by U.S. tariffs. The announcement includes $5 billion for a fund to help comp...

TORONTO - A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again, though officials are hopeful to get it operational by the end of the year. There are "performance and reliability" issues with ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is providing $3 million in humanitarian assistance to support thousands of people affected by Sunday's deadly earthquake in Afghanistan. A news release issued by Global...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has postponed the release of its revised school library book ban to Monday. The government had promised the new ministerial order for Friday afternoon, with a technic...

Ottawa has announced $370 million in new support for Canadian canola producers facing massive tariffs from China. The federal government said Friday that a new biofuel production incentive is meant to...

OTTAWA - The federal electric vehicle sales mandate will not be implemented in 2026 as planned, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday, pushing back by at least a year a policy that would have set min...

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared insolvent the North American branch of battery maker Northvolt as the provincial government looks to recover $260 million owed to it by the compan...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy lost jobs for the second month in a row as the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level since May 2016, excluding the pandemic period. Statistics Canada said Friday...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in August. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, ho...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 7.1 per cent in August. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10...