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Russia claimed Thursday that its troops have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia’s Kursk border region, as a senior Kremlin official said that a U.S.-proposed 30-day ceasefire in the war three years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine would help Kyiv by giving its weary and short-handed military a break. The Russian Defense Ministry’s claim that it recaptured the town of Sudzha, hours after President Vladimir Putin visited his commanders in Kursk and wore military fatigues, could not be independently verified. Ukrainian officials made no immediate comment on the claim.The renewed Russian military push and Putin’s high-profile visit to his troops came as U.S. President Donald Trump presses for a diplomatic end to the war. The U.S. on Tuesday lifted its March 3 s...

A new poll suggests that 40 per cent of Canadians are worried about losing their jobs as many businesses scale back hiring plans in response to the trade war with the United States. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 7 to March 10, suggests that more than half of workers in Ontario were concerned about job security, the highest in the country, while just under one in four in Atlantic Canada said they were worried.Thirty-nine per cent of people in British Columbia and in Manitoba/Saskatchewan reported they’re worried about losing their jobs, compared to 35 per cent of people in Alberta and 26 per cent of people in Quebec.Because the poll was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error.The poll shows male respondents were more concerned abou...

By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted March 13, 2025 6:27 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadian officials are set to meet with the U.S. commerce secretary in Washington today — days after a dust-up with U.S. President Donald Trump that ended with Ontario pausing its surcharge on electricity exports to the United States. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are meeting with Howard Lutnick, and Ford says his goal for the meeting is to get a coherent sense of the Trump administration’s plans for tariffs.Trump exp...

United States President Donald Trump is again talking about Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s threat to cut power to three northern states, suggesting America may not want to buy Canadian power at all. A tense Tuesday of escalating tension between Ford and Trump saw tariff threats traded, before an “olive branch” from the White House in the form of a meeting and Trump calling Ford a “strong man.”On Wednesday, Trump again mused about Ontario — this time dismissing the short-lived threat to add a surcharge to electricity and saying his threat of 50 per cent tariff on steel and aluminum had shut it down.“We had a problem with Ontario and they dropped that,” Trump said. “We let them know what we were going to be doing, they dropped it immediately. Electricity, you shouldn’t be playing with electrici...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Liberal Leader Mark Carney is expected to be sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister on Friday, Global News has learned. A senior Liberal source confirmed the planning, which has not yet been confirmed by Carney’s office or the government.Carney will replace outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after winning a race for the Liberal leadership on Sunday.Carney told reporters after his first meeting with the Liberal cabinet in Ottawa on Monday that he expected the transition “will be seamless and it will be quick.” Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford was spending Wednesday meeting with Canada’s incoming prime minister and speaking to his fellow premiers ahead of a trip Thursday to Washington, D.C., to talk trade with a top U.S. official. Ford, federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, are set to meet with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford amid a major ratcheting up – then down – Tuesday of the trade war between the two countries.The U.S. has imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and aluminum imports effective Wednesday and the Canadian government announced tariffs on U.S. goods worth nearly $30 billion in retaliation.Trump had threatened Tuesday to set the steel and aluminum tariff at 50 per cent in response to Ontario pl...

A new poll suggests Canadians’ sense of national pride has surged in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats against the country’s sovereignty. The poll, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies, says that the number of people saying they’re proud to be Canadian has jumped from 80 per cent in November 2024 to 86 per cent this month.Pride is highest among people aged 55 and over — at 92 per cent — while 86 per cent of people between the ages of 35 and 54 and 75 per cent of people aged 18 to 34 said they were proud to be Canadian.The poll sampled more than 1,500 Canadians from March 1 to March 2. Because it was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error. 0:...

The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%. The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared in advance, but the measures still place great strain on already tense transatlantic relations. Only last month, Washington warned Europe that it would have to take care of its own security in the future.The EU measures will cover goods from the United States worth some 26 billion euros ($28 billion), and not just steel and aluminum products, but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods. Motorcycles, bourbon, peanut butter and jeans will be hit, as they were during Pre...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size New U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum went into effect Wednesday as a trade war between the two North American neighbours escalates. U.S. President Donald Trump had on Tuesday threatened to double the planned metal tariffs to 50 per cent in response to Ontario’s decision to impose a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to the U.S, which was retaliation for Trump imposing sweeping 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods last week.The White House on Tuesday afternoon said the steel and aluminum tariffs would go ahead at 25 per cent instead of 50 per cent after Ontario suspended its electricity tax for three U.S. states.The federal government has so far retaliated to the broad...

The national president of Unifor says the ongoing “chaos” of U.S. President Donald Trump’s shifting announcements on tariffs has led to investments in sectors like the auto industry being put on hold, posing a danger to the country’s economy. Lana Payne’s comments come just minutes after the White House announced Tuesday Trump would not double incoming tariffs set for Wednesday on steel and aluminum, as he had threatened to do just hours earlier, instead keeping them at the original rate of 25 per cent.“He likes chaos, he likes the drama, but the reality is is that his actions are having a real-time impact on Canadian workers and they will have a real-time impact on American workers,” said Payne, whose union represents people in various industries including steel and aluminum.The 25 per ce...