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By Jim Bronskill The Canadian Press Posted October 20, 2025 9:00 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal Liberals plan to unfurl measures today to counter fraud and strengthen Canadians’ financial security — the latest in a series of pre-budget announcements. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is to be joined at a news conference by Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Stephanie McLean, secretary of state for seniors.The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has documented more than 30 types of fraud targeting Canadian consumers and businesses.The centre’s most recent annual st...

MONTREAL – The CEO of a Montreal-based company that uses satellites to monitor methane emissions says interest in his technology continues to reach new heights, even as governments appear to be wavering on their climate commitments. Since 2016, Stéphane Germain’s GHGSat has launched 14 satellites that roam the skies to detect emissions from oil and gas facilities, coal mines, landfills and agricultural feed lots. Methane is responsible for about one-third of global warming, according to scientists.GHGSat last month announced a deal with ExxonMobil Corp. to monitor emissions at the oil giant’s sites in Canada, the United States and Asia, and that it raised $47 million in equity and debt financing to help accelerate its global expansion.Germain says the company has managed to continue its gr...

India’s new envoy to Canada says Ottawa should pivot away from pursuing a scaled-down trade deal and instead reach for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the world’s most populous country. In a wide-ranging interview with The Canadian Press, Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Patnaik also said Canadian businesses should expand trade and investment ties with India now, without waiting for governments to sign a formal trade agreement.“We are more interested in a comprehensive package than something with low ambition. We want a higher ambition,” he said in a Thursday interview.“A trade deal is something we should not wait for. We should start getting whatever we can, the early gains.”Canada and India have been in trade talks since 2010. Those negotiations were paused and restart...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the RCMP covered up what he calls scandals involving former prime minister Justin Trudeau and said they would have otherwise led to criminal charges. In a recent interview with YouTube channel Northern Perspective, Poilievre called the leadership of the RCMP “despicable” and added that many of the scandals of the Trudeau era “should have involved jail time.”Poilievre said the former prime minister “probably” violated the criminal code during the SNC-Lavalin affair.“These would normally have led to criminal charges, but of course the RCMP covered it all up,” he said. 2:11 Bail reform targeting violent crime coming next week, Carney says ...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 17, 2025 8:16 am Updated October 17, 2025 8:17 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government is set to outline plans to strengthen border security on Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to tour a border crossing facility in the Niagara region, and Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is to hold a news conference soon after.The Liberal government split its border security bill this month, hoping ...

By Darryl Greer The Canadian Press Posted October 16, 2025 6:07 pm Updated October 16, 2025 6:08 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size SEATTLE – Pike Place Market artist and vendor Daniel Fleming says Toronto Blue Jays fans typically show up in Seattle in “droves” for games against the Mariners, and the ongoing American League Championship Series has been no different. He says the city and the market can seem insulated from political tensions between Canada and the Uni...

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada will continue to pursue “deep negotiations” with the U.S. on resolving issues of trade before resorting to retaliatory measures. Carney was speaking in Toronto ahead of a scheduled meeting with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has called on the federal government to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasingly escalatory tariffs on several sectors of the global economy that have impacted Canadian industries.“Premier Ford and I are both interested in results for, in my case, for workers and families across Canada, of course in his case for the province of Ontario,” the prime minister told reporters. “And we’re looking to work to those ends as constructively as possible right now with the Americans.“There’s times to hit back a...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government will propose bail reform legislation aimed at cracking down on violent crime and repeat offenders, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday. The measures, which Carney said are set to be tabled in Parliament next week will “keep violent and repeat offenders out of our communities.”“The government will table legislation to amend the Criminal Code for crimes committed by violent and repeat offenders – those accused of serious crimes like violent auto theft, breaking and entering, human trafficking, violent assault, and sexual assault,” Carney told reporters in Toronto on Thursday.The new measures will include reverse-onus bail for major crimes, which means an accuse...

Federal Industry Minister Melanie Joly said financial relief is coming soon for Canada’s tariff-struck softwood lumber sector. The minister said in Fredericton Wednesday the government will provide funding through banks, backstopped by the Business Development Bank of Canada, in the “coming days.”“That’s for supporting, right now, our businesses to make sure that they stay afloat,” Joly said. “Meanwhile, we will make sure that we work on a buy-Canadian policy to have our homes and our major projects and our infrastructure being built with the great softwood from New Brunswick.” 2:08 Premier warns B.C.’s softwood lumber industry on a ‘razor’s edge of survival’ ...

By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted October 15, 2025 1:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says a new International Monetary Fund report shows that while the global economy is showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs, trade uncertainty is holding it back. Champagne is chairing the fall meeting of the G7 finance ministers in Washington this week and attending the annual gathering of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, politica...