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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl. The Conservative leader said early Wednesday the penalty should be the same as murder.The Conservatives also want traffickers caught with between 20 mg and 40 mg of the drug to be sentenced to 15 years in prison.According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, two milligrams can kill a person. Health Canada says “a few grains” can be deadly. 0:45 Fentanyl czar to work across jurisdictions: McGuinty ...

Canada is making “incredible” progress in removing three major internal trade barriers, Transport and Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand told reporters in Halifax on Wednesday. Anand described the work as “fast-paced progress with all of the provinces and territories.”“We had an urgent meeting on Friday of the relevant ministers. At that meeting, we reached three strong recommendations,” she said.Canada’s Committee on Internal Trade met last week to discuss how to open up trade between Canada’s provinces. Anand said the first major recommendation that the committee agreed to implement is mutual recognition of regulations across the country.“That is, in other words, respecting the rules in place in other jurisdictions. So, you don’t have to comply, if you’re a trucker, with moving your lig...

Americans are likely to pay more for products from popular Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu as the U.S. Postal Service said it would stop accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong. The move was announced Tuesday, coming after the U.S. imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods and ended a customs exception that allowed small value parcels to enter the U.S. without paying tax. Canada and Mexico managed to negotiate a month-long reprieve from 25% tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump.It will likely impact online shopping destinations like Shein and Temu, popular with younger shoppers in the U.S. for cheap clothing and other products, usually shipped directly from China.Cheap, direct postal service helps these companies keep costs low, as did the “de minimi...

President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denounced on Wednesday by American allies and adversaries alike. Trump’s suggestion came at a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who smiled several times as the president detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, and for the U.S. to take “ownership” in redeveloping the war-torn territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get ri...

While a good portion of Canadians live within a couple of hours’ drive of the U.S. border, it is very different than living directly across from our American counterparts, according to Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati. “We all grew up here. We lived our lives here. We’ve got family and friends on both sides,” he told Global News on Monday.“Going across the border is like going across town anywhere else in the country. So we don’t even see the border when you live here.”That familial relationship may have become fractured over the weekend when Donald Trump announced that a round of tariffs were coming for Canadians, a move which was postponed for a month on Monday.“The majority of us are Bills fans. And, you know, we go to Buffalo, we fly out of the Buffalo airport. It’s just a way of life h...

Industry groups in Canada breathed a sigh of relief Monday when U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to pause tariffs on Canada after a phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But Canada is not out of the woods yet, they argue, and now is the time to dismantle some interprovincial trade barriers to blunt the impact of future tariffs Trump may decide to impose.Canada’s Committee on Internal Trade met last week to discuss how to open up trade between Canada’s provinces.“By working together with our provincial and territorial colleagues to remove internal trade and labour mobility barriers, we can unlock new market opportunities, attract investment and boost economic growth,” Anita Anand, minister of transport and internal trade, said in a statement after the meeting.The Canadian Chamber...