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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau say the Liberals have “all sorts of reflections” to make after losing a second stronghold in a byelection in Montreal Monday night. His comments come as the Liberal cabinet gathers for its first regularly scheduled meeting of the fall sitting of Parliament, which began Monday. Trudeau’s Liberals were hopeful […]

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in August slowed 22 per cent compared with July. The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts came in at 217,405 units in August, down from 279,804 a month earlier. The drop came as the annual […]

OTTAWA — Canada’s inflation rate fell to two per cent in August, finally hitting the Bank of Canada’s target after a tumultuous battle with skyrocketing price growth. More coming. The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Canadian teens signing up for Instagram will now be among the first in the world to be automatically given private accounts with limited capabilities. The new accounts for teens will come with default restrictions blocking underage users from being messaged by people they aren’t connected with and that won’t show sensitive content such […]

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Shane Pinto is convinced the experience will help him down the road. It just didn’t feel that way in the moment. Already sidelined due to a contract impasse that saw him miss the start of last season, the Ottawa Senators forward from New York’s Long Island was suspended for 41 games […]

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face his cabinet today after losing yet another long-held Liberal seat. Trudeau’s Liberals were hopeful they could retain the Montreal riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, but those hopes were dashed after the Bloc Québécois won it in an extremely tight three-way race with the NDP. The Montreal race was widely […]

OTTAWA — Liberal John McKay and Conservative Garnett Genuis are slated to appear today at a federal inquiry into foreign interference. Both members of Parliament serve with the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, a group that brings together representatives of various countries to demand accountability from Beijing. The federal inquiry, led by commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue, is […]

LOYALIST TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO, CANADA — The plant was expected to produce batteries for a million electric vehicles a year. Once up and running, it was supposed to create hundreds of permanent jobs in a small southeastern Ontario municipality. It was, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time, “big news” that Belgium-based Umicore chose Loyalist […]

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to release its August consumer price index report this morning. Economists polled by Reuters are expecting the report to show prices rose 2.1 per cent from a year ago, down from a 2.5 per cent annual gain in July. Inflation has remained below three per cent throughout 2024, giving […]

KING CITY, Ont. — Captain Nicholas Kirton scored 73 runs not out and Dilon Heyliger took five wickets as Canada celebrated its first one-day international on home soil in 11 years with a commanding 103-run win over Nepal in ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 play Monday. Kirton, batting fifth, hammered six sixes and three […]