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By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted October 6, 2025 8:50 am Updated October 6, 2025 8:51 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size MPs will be pressing for details about Canada’s fiscal position today as Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is set to appear at a parliamentary committee. Champagne was summoned last month to make an appearance at the House of Commons finance committee to answer questions about the federal government’s budget cycle.The Liberals wi...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 6, 2025 6:37 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers Leadership Summit is wrapping up today in Quebec City with participants taking part in a closing news conference. Québec Premier François Legault has been hosting Ontario Premier Doug Ford as well as the governors of New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and heads of delegation from Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking n...

A teachers’ strike is “imminent,” said the union representing Alberta’s educators Sunday, as thousands gathered in Edmonton on the eve of a strike. “Right now, a strike is imminent. We will be on strike tomorrow (Monday). If a deal was to be negotiated, and ideally we would like that, we’d still have to go through our process of member affirmation meetings, voting and so on,” Alberta Teachers Association president Jason Schilling said.It would take “about a week” for teachers to affirm any new deal, Schilling said.He added that the union and the province are “back at the table in an exploratory way right now.”“We’re just letting those talks happen at the table outside of the media eye so that we can try to find a solution to issues that teachers are seeing,” he said. Story continue...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 5, 2025 12:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Global Affairs Canada says it is aware that two Canadian citizens have been detained in Israel following their involvement in a flotilla to Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla is a pro-Palestinian fleet of boats aiming to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.Global Affairs Canada did not identify the detained Canadians or disclose if there are others involved, stating no further information can be shared due to privacy laws. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada ...

MONTREAL – Shirley Pien spends a lot of time in Cabot Square, a park in downtown Montreal where many homeless people gather. The woman works as health navigator for an Indigenous-led health clinic in the city and makes it a priority to come to gathering spot on weekly basis. It’s a site many missing Indigenous women she knows used to frequent — until they disappeared.“In the last few months, there’s women we used to see regularly that we don’t see anymore. Nobody knows where they are,” said Pien, who hails from Naskapi Nation in northern Quebec.She was among many that turned out to the march held in Montreal on Saturday in recognition of the overrepresentation of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in the country.“Hopefully one day, people will hear us and start to do something...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The latest offers by Canada Post are worse than they were before, the union representing postal workers said in a statement Saturday. “Postal workers expected improved offers after being made to wait for 45 days after CUPW presented our offers. Instead, the offers are worse,” the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said in a statement, responding to contract proposals from Canada Post on Friday.Canada Post’s new offers to the striking workers remove a previously offered signing bonus and proposes to reduce both the company’s workforce and the number of post offices that are “off limits” from closure.The union said the company wants workers “to accept what they overwhelmingly rejected i...

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...