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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 20, 2025 8:55 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size 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 announcement in Edmonton just three days before he is widely expected to call a federal election. Global News has confirmed that will happen on Sunday. ...

Could Amarjeet Sohi have his sights set on a return to Ottawa? Rumours abound that Edmonton’s mayor is mulling a second go at federal politics. There’s speculation Sohi is planning to run for the Liberal Party of Canada in the federal election being called this weekend, as first reported by CBC Radio-Canada.For months, Sohi has been non-committal about his political future and if he will run for mayor again in the municipal election this upcoming October. 4:00 Looking back at 2024 with Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi He continued to be mum on the subject Thursday, when holding a housing announcement news conference with Prime Minister Mark Carney...

The Quebec government is planning to expand the province’s ban on religious symbols to everyone who interacts with students in an effort to reinforce secularism in schools. A bill tabled Thursday would prohibit anyone who works in a school or on school property from wearing a religious symbol — including a hijab or a turban — on the job. It would also forbid students and staff from covering their faces.The proposed law would be a significant expansion of the province’s existing secularism rules, and comes after a controversy over allegations of religious practices appearing in certain Quebec public schools. Education Minister Bernard Drainville has been promising for months to introduce new legislation to fight the spectre of religious influence in schools.“I’m aware that this bill will ca...

The British and German governments have updated their advice for travellers seeking to enter the U.S. with fresh warnings about the risk of arrest or detention. The updates come after recent reports of British and German nationals being detained at the border amid an immigration crackdown by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.The U.K. travel advice page on the British foreign office’s website currently warns travellers to “comply with all entry, visa and other conditions of entry.”“The authorities in the U.S. set and enforce entry rules strictly. You may be liable to arrest or detention if you break the rules,” it continues.Archived versions of the same website showed that at the beginning of February, the guidance only stated: “The authorities in the U.S. set and enforce entry r...

The uncertainty Canada faced during U.S. President Donald Trump‘s first term “doesn’t come close” to the current uncertainty around his tariffs, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said Thursday. Speaking at an event in Calgary, Macklem said that while the Canadian economy entered 2025 on a strong footing after years of COVID-19 disruptions and inflation, the outlook for the year is not rosy.“The Canadian economy managed a soft landing. Unfortunately, we’re not going to stay on the tarmac for long,” he said.Macklem said Trump’s first term in office created uncertainty in the relatively stable trading relationship between the U.S. and Canada. However, his second term is causing far more.“After more than 50 years of high predictability in trade policy, there was a sharp increase in uncertai...

By Nick Murray The Canadian Press Posted March 20, 2025 2:06 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Environment Minister Terry Duguid says a Mark Carney government will maintain a cap on oil and gas production emissions. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Duguid says Canada wants the energy but not the pollution that comes with its production.The Liberals introduced draft regulations back in November that require producers to cut emissions by about one-third over the next eight years. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world...

By Jack Farrell The Canadian Press Posted March 20, 2025 12:04 pm Updated March 20, 2025 12:13 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney are meeting on Thursday for the first time since he was sworn into office last week. The visit comes a day after Smith’s United Conservative Party government tabled a bill that seeks to ban federal employees from accessing oil and gas facilities and the emissions data they contain.Critics ...