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When Grizzly Bar opens next week in Toronto, diners will have no doubt about where its owners’ allegiances lie in the trade war between Canada and the U.S. Maple leaves and animatronic bears will set the mood. Customers will be able to order Montreal smoked meat, calamari from the Maritimes or Caesars topped with ketchup chips in mini paper boats.They can all be paid for by cash, card or the country’s other favourite currency, Canadian Tire money. Co-owner Jessica Langer Kapalka poses for a portrait at Grizzly Bar, a new Canadiana-themed bar in Toronto, Saturday, April 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Giordano Ciampini For entertainment, Blue Rodeo, Rush and Loverboy will be on heavy rotation and a “Hoser Olympics” will see customers fa...

The NDP promised to protect tenants through national rent control while the Conservatives focused their campaign trail message on addictions treatment Sunday. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in Halifax in the morning that his party would tie federal housing funding for provinces and municipalities to tenant protection policies like rent control.The NDP says housing and rent prices in Canada have doubled since 2015 and the average asking rent hit $2,109 per month in January.The party also wants to ban fixed-term leases, “renovictions” and other practices it says are aimed at pushing people out of their homes and driving up rents. The NDP says it would also prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to co-ordinate rent increases.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, campaigning in British Col...

The Liberals have widened their lead over the Conservatives to double digits among voters as the federal election campaign enters its third week, a new poll shows. The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and released Sunday shows 46 per cent of Canadians surveyed would cast their ballots for the Liberals, up two points from last week.The Conservatives, by contrast, fell four points to 34 per cent support among polled voters.“This level of national support firmly places the Liberals in majority-government territory if the election were held today,” Ipsos said.Ten per cent of Canadians in the poll chose the New Democratic Party, three per cent chose the Green Party, and the Bloc Quebecois’ 26 per cent support in Quebec translated to six per cent nationally. All three parties wen...

The bus is orange. The seats are carpeted. And the battle cry for the partisans on board is borrowed from the late Jack Layton: “Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.” Layton led the NDP to its best-ever election result in 2011, when the party won 100 seats and, for the first and only time, became the official opposition.Jagmeet Singh, by contrast, is fighting to keep official party status.A Global News seat projection model, based on an aggregate of polling done up to March 24, indicates the NDP may win just three seats.To be recognized as an official party in the House of Commons — and qualify for more research funding and question period slots — a party must win 12 seats. The NDP won 24 in 2021. Story continues below advertisement ...