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Prime Minister Mark Carney says he sees an opening for Canada to attract global tech talent now that the United States is introducing a $100,000 fee for temporary visas for workers with specialized skills. But the Canadian tech sector typically sees a lot of migration to the U.S. among high-skill employees — and some experts warn the increased visa fee could actually accelerate the exodus south.Here are five things you need to know about the U.S. H-1B visa fee. What is happening in the U. S.? U.S. President Donald Trump announced last month that new H-1B visa applications will be subject to a $100,000 fee going forward. Story continues below advertisement These work visas are good for three years and are used to attract employees wi...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 3, 2025 4:57 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Senate is no longer allowing senators to be reimbursed for spouses receiving language training. The changes were passed yesterday at a Senate committee meeting on internal economy, budgets and administration.The changes were made after Radio-Canada reported this week that Quebec Sen. Amina Gerba billed taxpayers nearly $22,000 for two English-language training courses in Vancouver for herself and her husband in 2023 and 2024. Get breaking National news For news imp...

It’s been two weeks since a Liberal government official said the controversial Irish hip-hop group Kneecap was barred from entering Canada, and it remains unclear if the group is truly banned — or if the official went “rogue,” as some critics have questioned. Kneecap’s management says it never received official word that its electronic travel authorizations had been denied after Liberal MP Vince Gasparro, the parliamentary secretary for combatting crime, announced the apparent ban on social media on Sept. 19.Conservative and NDP MPs are now demanding answers from the government and say they are open to pursuing investigations into Gasparro’s conduct, and whether his announcement was approved by immigration and public safety officials.Gasparro has repeatedly declined to comment further on t...

By Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press Posted October 3, 2025 12:59 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size G7 foreign ministers are set to gather near Niagara Falls next month for two days of meetings. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will host her colleagues from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., the U.S. and the European Union.Global Affairs Canada says the meeting will take place “in the Niagara Region” of Ontario on Nov. 11 — Remembrance Day — and Nov. 12. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaki...

By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted October 3, 2025 12:35 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday as trade negotiations continue. Carney will travel to the United States capital city Monday ahead of the meeting. It will be his second visit to the White House since he became prime minister.The Prime Minister’s Office said in a news release that Carney’s visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the United States.Ottawa has been...

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Northern Canadians see U.S. President Donald Trump’s America as a greater threat to Canada’s Arctic security than Russia or China, as the region attracts greater attention from both polar and non-polar powers, according to recent polling. The polling data comes as Canada’s foreign affairs minister is being warned that current tensions with Russia and China’s growing presence in the Far North is introducing a “high degree of uncertainty regarding the future of Arctic sovereignty.”Polling released in September by L’Observatoire de la politique et de la sécurité de l’Arctique (OPSA), a Québec-based research center, found that a full 37 per cent of Northerners felt the United States is the “most serious threat” to Canada’s North, followed by Moscow (35 per cent) and Beijing (17 per cent).“To s...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel says Ottawa would need to make a lot of changes before his company would be willing to build the West Coast bitumen pipeline the Alberta government is pitching. In a speech to the Empire Club of Canada, Ebel repeated industry leaders’ call for an end to the federal tanker ban on the northern B.C. coast, emissions cap and industrial carbon price, among other items.Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is putting up $14 million for early planning work on a pipeline that it hopes the private sector will eventually take over, with potential Indigenous ownership.A committee that includes Enbridge and other industry, political and Indigenous players will advis...

By Jim Bronskill The Canadian Press Posted October 2, 2025 4:22 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A new report from a federal security task force says foreign interference activities during the last general election were “small scale” and often difficult to attribute to an actor from abroad. The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force includes representatives of Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the RCMP and the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s cyberspy agency. Get breaking National news For ...

The federal immigration minister is facing increasing pressure to clarify whether the Irish hip-hop group Kneecap is indeed banned from entering Canada, or if the Liberal official who announced the move was approved to make that assertion in a contentious social media post. In a letter to Immigration Minister Lena Diab on Thursday, NDP MP Jenny Kwan, the party’s immigration critic, urged Diab to say whether the group is indeed banned after the minister and other officials have repeatedly refused to answer questions on the case for almost two weeks.The band says it has yet to receive any official notice about an entry ban or denial of their electronic visa authorizations.“Canadians and visitors to Canada deserve to know that they are not subject to arbitrary and politicized weaponization of...