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TORONTO — Lately, Kevin Grell feels an instant heaviness settle over him when he walks through the door at Hudson’s Bay’s east Toronto fulfilment centre. He and the other workers at the Scarborough site assemble online orders for the retailer. They’ve been anxious about the company’s future for months, but when it filed for creditor […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting Canada’s premiers today in Ottawa as the provinces grapple with the effects of Chinese and U.S. tariffs. The meeting is taking place just days before Carney is expected to launch a federal election campaign that would send Canadians to the polls as soon as April 28. The […]

TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay is expected to be back in court today, where it continues to seek permission to liquidate all of its stores as part of its creditor protection case. Since Monday, the department store chain that holds the title of Canada’s oldest company wants Ontario Superior Court judge Peter Osborne to allow it […]

WINDSOR, Ont. — Noah Morneau had a hat trick, Joey Costanzo earned a 21-save shutout and the Windsor Spitfires downed the Sarnia Sting 5-0 on Thursday in Ontario Hockey League action. AJ Spellacy and Ryan Abraham, with a short-handed goal, also scored for Windsor (45-16-4-2). Ilya Protas dished out five assists. Evan Maillet gave up […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon, Brock Nelson, Cale Makar and Joel Kiviranta all scored in Colorado’s first-period barrage and the Avalanche cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Nelson finished with two goals — his first two since being acquired by Colorado from the New York Islanders — and […]

TORONTO — Aviation experts say a preliminary report into a plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson airport suggests the aircraft came down at a high speed and touched down hard enough to break its landing gear. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada released its report Thursday as it continues to investigate the Feb. 17 Delta Air […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will scrap the GST for first-time homebuyers who purchase a home with a sale price at or below $1 million. Carney promised the measure during his leadership campaign and it also matches a similar promise made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre last fall. Carney made the […]

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Canadians are feeling increasingly alarmed by U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump and American economic aggression. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 14 to March 16, suggests 41 per cent of respondents see those three factors as the most pressing threats facing Canada today […]

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper told a conference in India last month that he doesn’t “entirely understand” why Canada has such a poor relationship with India, and suggested the Liberal party has become infiltrated by Sikh activists who want to carve a separate state out of India. “Frankly, I have been heartbroken to […]

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index ticked lower Thursday after giving back gains from earlier in the day, while U.S. markets also moved lower. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 8.97 points at 26,060.24. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 11.31 points at 41,953.32. The S&P 500 index was down 12.40 […]