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City clears encampment from Toronto park after residents demanded permanent housing
TORONTO - A homeless encampment in Toronto's west end was cleared by the city Friday morning after a small group of remaining residents said they wouldn't leave until they got permanent housing. City ...
Sep 26, 2025
'Very unfair': Property taxes up 20 per cent in cash-strapped Ontario township
Tammy Daigle has spent more than half of her life in the rural, northern Ontario community of Fauquier-Strickland, focusing on her family and rarely thinking about the small town's finances. But that ...
Sep 26, 2025
Striking Canada Post union urges Ottawa to walk back sweeping mandate changes
OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post workers is urging Ottawa to walk back sweeping changes to the postal service's mandate as mail carriers take to picket lines across the country. The federal...
Sep 26, 2025
Ottawa says Chinese EV tariff review is 'informal,' with no specific deadline
OTTAWA - The federal government says it is reviewing its decision to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs - but it can't or won't say when the review began, or when it will end. The tariffs took...
Sep 26, 2025
Carney looks to strengthen trade, security ties in U.K. visit
LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney is urging "like-minded" countries to work together in the face of the economic and geopolitical "rupture" driven by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff agenda. Car...
Sep 26, 2025
Ex-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert slams Netanyahu for framing Carney as enemy of Israel
OTTAWA - Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says Canadians should oppose Israel's government - not Israelis themselves - and blasts his successor for treating Prime Minister Mark Carney as "an ...
Sep 26, 2025
U.S. ambassador lashes out at suggestion that Trump is uninformed
BANFF - U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says he's offended by the suggestion that President Donald Trump is uninformed about what Canada has to offer his country. In a tense onstage discussion at the Gl...
Sep 25, 2025
Trump to put import taxes on pharmaceutical drugs, kitchen cabinets, furniture and heavy trucks
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will put import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25...
Sep 25, 2025
Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction
WASHINGTON (AP) - James Comey was charged Thursday with lying to Congress in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI d...
Sep 25, 2025
Trump says China's Xi has approved of proposed deal putting TikTok under US ownership
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States in a way that meets national security concerns laid out...
Sep 25, 2025
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