Author: The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Canada’s trade surplus with the U.S. widened in December as overall exports rose thanks in part to higher energy prices, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The global trade surplus in goods came in at $708 million for the month, compared with a revised deficit of $986 million in November, to mark the first merchandise […]

TORONTO — Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is promising to end homeless encampments, calling them Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s “greatest failure.” Stiles listed several steps she would take to accomplish that goal but would not say how much they would cost, saying only “that will all come” later. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario […]

TORONTO — CFL teams will have more money to spend on bolstering their rosters in 2025. The league announced Wednesday that its salary cap this season has been set at just over $6.06 million. That’s up significantly from last year’s limit of $5.525 million and represents an increase of $412,365 from the proposed $5.650 million […]

TORONTO — The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says it is forecasting a 12.4 per cent increase in home sales for 2025, with 76,000 properties changing hands throughout the region as lower borrowing costs lead to improved affordability. The board expects the average selling price to reach $1,147,000, up 2.6 per cent compared with last […]

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 for a month. The Prime Minister’s Office says the event will assemble Canadian trade and business leaders, along with organized labour, to discuss […]

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 the first merchandise trade surplus since February 2024. The agency says exports rose 4.9 per cent to $69.5 billion in December. Exports of […]

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 Conservative leader says the penalty should be the same as murder. The Conservatives also want traffickers caught with between 20 mg and 40 mg of the […]

The winner of a complete set of medals and Canada’s Olympic flag-bearer in Beijing’s closing ceremonies is in debt. Isabelle Weidemann wasn’t comfortable stating how far she’s in the red. The 29-year-old from Ottawa is paying for things her national sport organization can no longer afford. “Even at this top level, three Olympic medals, got […]

Here’s where the leaders of Ontario’s main political parties are on Wednesday, Feb. 5: Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford Pickering: Ford will make an announcement at 1 p.m. in Pickering. He will also visit workers and tour a Kubota Canada facility. He will then go to Oshawa for an event with the International Brotherhood of […]

OTTAWA — A new independent commission tasked by the federal government with reviewing miscarriages of justice could discover that more people than expected are serving prison sentences for crimes they didn’t commit. Other countries that launched similar commissions have found that “the degree of wrongful convictions certainly was much more significant than they knew,” said […]