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By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted October 15, 2025 1:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says a new International Monetary Fund report shows that while the global economy is showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs, trade uncertainty is holding it back. Champagne is chairing the fall meeting of the G7 finance ministers in Washington this week and attending the annual gathering of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, politica...

Automaker Stellantis has cancelled its plan to make Jeeps at its Brampton, Ont., facility, shifting production to the United States in a major blow for the local and provincial economy. Late on Tuesday evening, the union representing workers at Stellantis’ Brampton Assembly Plant said it had been informed the company was expanding its investment in the United States, seemingly at the expense of Canadian work.“Canadian auto jobs are being sacrificed on the Trump altar,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne.“Saving Brampton Assembly must now be this country’s top priority, sending a strong message to any corporation thinking they can take the same egregious actions.”Stellantis had been in the middle of retooling its Brampton plant to assemble new vehicles earlier this year. It paused th...

By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted October 15, 2025 11:38 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal Conservative party is proposing a plan to improve the job prospects facing Canada’s young workers amidst high youth unemployment in the country. Unemployment rose to 14.7 per cent for youth aged 15 to 24 in September, hitting a 15-year high outside the pandemic years.The Conservatives pin much of the blame on what they call Canada’s broken immigration system, which they say flooded the job market and made it harder for young people to break in. ...

Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador showed they were in the mood for a big change on Tuesday by ousting the governing Liberals after ten years in power and handing a slim majority win to the Progressive Conservatives. As the final ballots were counted at the conclusion of the autumn election campaign, Tony Wakeham’s Tories edged into a small lead after a white-knuckle, see-saw battle, and then steadily pulled ahead of Premier John Hogan’s Liberals.In his victory speech, Wakeham took aim at pundits who had predicted another Liberal win. “I’ve spent over 30 years of my life coaching basketball, and you learn that no stat is less important than the score at halftime,” he said.“It was only a couple of months ago that a whole lot of people were looking at the halftime score and thinking that th...

B.C. Premier David Eby is issuing a stark warning to the federal government as the province’s softwood lumber industry faces additional duties and tariffs from the U.S., which he said has left many forest companies on a “razor’s edge of survival.” Softwood lumber being exported from B.C. to the U.S. now faces an estimated 45 per cent in extra taxes.“Today marks the beginning of an additional attack on workers, on communities, on the Canadian forest sector by President Donald Trump, an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canadian forest products,” Eby said at a press conference on Tuesday.“This additional tariff means that Canadian wood has a higher tariff rate going to the United States than Russia does. I want to let that sink in. That there’s a higher tariff on Canadian wood going to the Un...