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By Darryl Greer The Canadian Press Posted October 16, 2025 6:07 pm Updated October 16, 2025 6:08 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size SEATTLE – Pike Place Market artist and vendor Daniel Fleming says Toronto Blue Jays fans typically show up in Seattle in “droves” for games against the Mariners, and the ongoing American League Championship Series has been no different. He says the city and the market can seem insulated from political tensions between Canada and the Uni...

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada will continue to pursue “deep negotiations” with the U.S. on resolving issues of trade before resorting to retaliatory measures. Carney was speaking in Toronto ahead of a scheduled meeting with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has called on the federal government to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasingly escalatory tariffs on several sectors of the global economy that have impacted Canadian industries.“Premier Ford and I are both interested in results for, in my case, for workers and families across Canada, of course in his case for the province of Ontario,” the prime minister told reporters. “And we’re looking to work to those ends as constructively as possible right now with the Americans.“There’s times to hit back a...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government will propose bail reform legislation aimed at cracking down on violent crime and repeat offenders, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday. The measures, which Carney said are set to be tabled in Parliament next week will “keep violent and repeat offenders out of our communities.”“The government will table legislation to amend the Criminal Code for crimes committed by violent and repeat offenders – those accused of serious crimes like violent auto theft, breaking and entering, human trafficking, violent assault, and sexual assault,” Carney told reporters in Toronto on Thursday.The new measures will include reverse-onus bail for major crimes, which means an accuse...

Federal Industry Minister Melanie Joly said financial relief is coming soon for Canada’s tariff-struck softwood lumber sector. The minister said in Fredericton Wednesday the government will provide funding through banks, backstopped by the Business Development Bank of Canada, in the “coming days.”“That’s for supporting, right now, our businesses to make sure that they stay afloat,” Joly said. “Meanwhile, we will make sure that we work on a buy-Canadian policy to have our homes and our major projects and our infrastructure being built with the great softwood from New Brunswick.” 2:08 Premier warns B.C.’s softwood lumber industry on a ‘razor’s edge of survival’ ...