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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 22, 2025 12:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Nova Scotia has become the latest province to scrap electrical vehicle rebates for Teslas due to the CEO’s association with the U.S. administration and its trade war on Canada. The Progressive Conservative government joined with the NDP and Liberal opposition parties in a vote dropping the electric automaker from the rebate program, which provides subsidies that range from $2,000 to $3,000 per purchase. 2:01 T...

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing two, including a child, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Earlier, rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, for the second time since December, sparking concern about whether the fragile ceasefire would hold. In a statement Saturday, Hezbollah denied being responsible for the attack, saying that it was committed to the truce and accused Israel of blaming it for the strikes as a pretext for more attacks.Israel had said that it would respond “severely” to the early Saturday attack from Lebanon when rockets were fired into northern Israel. Israel’s army said the intercepted rockets targeted the Israeli town of Metula.Lebanon’s health ministr...

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month. The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States since October 2022. They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they will lose their legal status on April 24, or 30 days after the publication of the notice in the Federal Register.The new policy impacts people who are already in the U.S. and who came under the humanitarian parole program. It follows an earlier Trump administration decision to end what it called the “broad abuse”...

A group of mayors from Canadian border towns issued a plea for help to upper levels of government on Friday as businesses in their communities suffer through the effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and anti-Canadian rhetoric. “We need the federal government to fully understand and look to different sectors to assist them through the tariffs that will be coming,” Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley said during a press conference organized by the Frontier Duty Free Association.“We’re feeling the pain and we’re on the front line,” Bradley said of his city, which shares a border with Michigan. “That’s just the reality of being a border city. There are many joys to being a border city. But there’s also a lot of pain on occasion when issues beyond our control happen.”Over the past few ...

By Nick Murray The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 8:55 pm Updated March 21, 2025 9:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault says he will not run again in the upcoming federal election, set to be called on Sunday. The Liberal party had confirmed Boissonnault as a candidate in Edmonton Centre, a riding he won in 2015, lost in 2019, then reclaimed in 2021.In a statement posted to X Friday night, the former cabinet minister says the pas...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Liquor stores across Saskatchewan are about to look a lot different, as U.S. brands are pulled from shelves. The province recently released a list of over 50 drinks that won’t be available for restock.Products like Bud Light and Coors Light beer, and hard seltzers such as Vizzy and White Claw (plus other brands) will no longer be purchased by stores across the province to sell to consumers.However, some of the products which won’t be sold are actually made in Canada.Brandon Geerts, the LB Liquor president, said the government’s decision to remove some of the brands is a bit baffling.“Most of this product is made in Canada with Canadian ingredients by Canadian employees,” Geerts said. ...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 4:58 pm Updated March 21, 2025 5:21 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size If the four main federal political parties want to take part in the TVA network’s head-to-head French-language debate in the upcoming election campaign, they will have to shell out $75,000 each. The Quebecor-owned television network says it needs cash to offset the costs of producing the Face-à-Face debate, which is divided into segments pitting one leader ag...

By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 2:14 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Days before he’s expected to call a federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney is confirming he won’t move ahead with a key Liberal tax policy. The Prime Minister’s Office says a plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains, first pitched in the federal budget last year, will not move forward.The proposal was set to take effect on June 25 of last year and would have seen all businesses and individuals reporting more than $250,000 in capital gains in a year pay more tax on those proceeds.The tax ...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 21, 2025 3:38 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Premier Danielle Smith says she would form a panel to generate ideas on what Alberta should do if her demands of Canada’s next government aren’t met. Smith wants an end to a number of policies that were put in place under former prime minister Justin Trudeau that she says have done nothing but harm Alberta’s oil and gas sector, such as Ottawa’s proposed emissions cap.Smith says she expects to see action on her demands within months of the next federal election, which is expected to be called Sunday. If not...

The federal government on Friday launched a new ad campaign in the U.S. to remind Americans of the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods in the latest salvo in the deepening trade war. The digital billboards read “Tariffs are a tax on hardworking Americans” and will be installed in Washington, D.C., and cities like Miami, Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta that Ottawa says would be “hardest hit” by the tariffs “due to their heavy reliance on trade with Canada.”Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly told CNN on Friday the “huge billboards” will be erected along major highways in 12 U.S. states overall, with a particular focus on “red” Republican-led states.“We need to send a message to the American people for them to understand what’s at stake,” she said. “This is ...