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Ottawa hopes Canadian labour will support building agenda, Hajdu says
OTTAWA - The federal government wants to use "as much Canadian labour as possible" to achieve its infrastructure and homebuilding ambitions, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said Monday. Hajdu announced that...
Oct 27, 2025
Ford says he won't apologize for anti-tariff ads that scuttled trade talks with U.S.
OTTAWA - After Ontario's anti-tariff TV ad blitz scuttled trade talks, Premier Doug Ford vowed Monday he will "never apologize" for pushing back against hostile trade measures designed to poach jobs f...
Oct 27, 2025
Prime Minister Carney says he plans to meet with Chinese President Xi at APEC
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping while the pair are at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum later this week in South Korea. Carney said ...
Oct 27, 2025
Montreal's mayoral election is about affordability and the homeless -- and bike lanes
MONTREAL - In a recent debate on Radio-Canada, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, one of the leading candidates for mayor of Montreal, brought up comments made more than two years ago by a borough mayor compari...
Oct 27, 2025
Food costs are spiralling. These Canadians are turning to food banks for help.
TORONTO - Sticker shock hit hard when single mom Kristina Kennedy saw the sausages she usually buys were $1.50 more than expected. As the sole caregiver to four children, the 40-year-old says price hi...
Oct 27, 2025
Bank of Canada expected to cut key rate despite mixed inflation, jobs data
OTTAWA - Most economists expect the Bank of Canada will look past strong jobs data and signs of stubbornness on the inflation front to deliver a second consecutive interest rate cut this week. BMO chi...
Oct 27, 2025
U of S sets up new entrepreneurship centre after $5 million gift
A gift by two alumni will allow the University of Saskatchewan to establish a new entrepreneurship centre. According to the university, the Slogotski Hunt Centre for Entrepreneurship will support stud...
Oct 26, 2025 The university says the Slogotski Hunt Centre for Entrepreneurship will support students and faculty across all of the university’s colleges and schools through programming, education and mentorship. (Will Mandzuk/650 CKOM)
Alberta's latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past
CALGARY - Few are as acquainted with Canada's graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals. "You can see the ...
Oct 26, 2025
Carney tells ASEAN summit Canada respects trade rules, as Trump threatens new tariffs
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney took a veiled shot at the Trump administration's trade policy on Sunday, highlighting Canada's reliability and steadiness without naming the United States or ...
Oct 26, 2025
Carney aims to sell Canada as reliable trade partner for Southeast Asia
by Sarah Ritchie KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching Canada as a reliable partner for Southeast Asia, one that's committed to rules-based trade at a time when U.S. President Donald T...
Oct 25, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with members of the media before he boards a government plane in Ottawa on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
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