Author: The Canadian Press

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 deploying his threatened tariffs against Canada for a month. “We want businesses, investors and workers to choose Canada,” Trudeau said in a news release. The Prime Minister’s Office […]

TORONTO — Every year Kathy Rowe and her husband exchange the same Christmas gift: plane tickets to the United States. The couple from Torbay, N.L., had planned to do the same last holiday season, and used points to purchase non-refundable plane tickets to Dallas, where they would rent a car for a road trip in […]

Ontario’s NDP and Liberal leaders are focusing on housing and affordability issues on the campaign trail today, with promises to address homelessness and provide more financial support for people with disabilities. NDP Leader Marit Stiles is pledging to end homeless encampments, calling them Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s “greatest failure.” Stiles listed several steps she […]

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 […]