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The mail came to a halt on Thursday evening as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) walked off the job in response to the federal government’s proposed changes to Canada Post. Joël Lightbound, the minister responsible for Canada Post, announced earlier Thursday that the government will lift its moratorium that has prevented Canada Post from shifting all remaining door-to-door delivery for individual addresses to community mailboxes. 2:22 Canada Post union launches strike after Ottawa announces changes Ottawa’s rural post offices moratorium will also be lifted, allowing the company to close some post offices deemed no longer necessary, a...

Canadian Union of Postal Workers negotiator Jim Gallant told Global News that workers in the Atlantic provinces have already gone onto picket lines, with other provinces to follow. Source link

Canada Post will be allowed to end door-to-door mail delivery to individual addresses and close or convert rural post offices in a bid to stabilize its operations and restore its financial footing, the federal government announced Thursday. The government will also allow Canada Post to adjust its delivery standards for non-urgent letter mail, allowing it to be moved by ground instead of air to “reflect today’s lower volumes.”Joël Lightbound, the minister responsible for Canada Post, said the changes are necessary to ensure the survival of the beleaguered national mail carrier and Crown corporation.“This situation is not sustainable,” he said. “Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and repeated bailouts are not a long-term solution.”The government has had moratoriums in place on converting ...

The parliamentary budget officer said Thursday he expects the coming fall budget will reveal a sharp increase in Ottawa’s deficit that puts the government’s previous fiscal anchors in jeopardy. Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog Jason Jacques now projects the federal government will post an annual deficit of $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion last year.He said in a new report that he expects federal debt-to-GDP is no longer on a declining path over the medium term — a ratio that previously was a key fiscal anchor for the federal government.The office’s updated fiscal and economic outlook offers parliamentarians a baseline estimate of the state of federal finances heading into the Liberals’ fall budget on Nov. 4.The PBO’s update does not include plans to incrementally ramp up defence spen...

One of Canada's premier vaccine centres celebrates its 50th birthday this week, but researchers say it comes amid unease over U.S. policy changes and funding cuts that threaten to upend the global fight against disease. Source link

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has signed new agreements on trade and defence cooperation with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Parliament Hill. The trade deal is comprehensive, meaning it opens up trade in multiple industries with the world’s fourth most populous country.Carney said the “game-changing” agreement is the first-ever bilateral trade pact signed with a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).“Once it’s fully implemented, it means that over 95 per cent of the tariffs on Canada’s current exports to Indonesia will be reduced or eliminated,” he told reporters in Ottawa.“They will all be at preferential rates, making our exports obviously far more competiti...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing by both the Liberals’ gun buyback plan and his embattled public safety minister who was caught on tape questioning the program. Speaking in the House of Commons Wednesday, Carney resisted continued calls from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to fire Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree.Anandasangaree found himself in hot water this week after leaked audio of the minister questioning the efficacy and motivation of the Liberals’ gun buyback program surfaced online, leading to the Conservatives’ push to have him removed from his post.“His own minister of public safety says this government is doing it wrong. He was caught on tape saying the program won’t work,” Poilievre said during question period.“The police say they won’t implement it, the mi...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 24, 2025 11:21 am Updated September 24, 2025 11:48 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Quebec government is banning the use of newly emerging gender-neutral words in all official communications. French-language Minister Jean-François Roberge says Quebec’s official language must not be “distorted.”The updated language policy applies to recently invented words including gender-neutral pronouns that are commonly used by t...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he believes Ukraine can win back all the territory it has lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from his earlier suggestions that Kyiv should make concessions in order to secure peace. Trump stated his new position on the war he has struggled to end, despite vowing to do so, in a social media post soon after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations on Tuesday to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution, while warning Europe it would be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed monster” of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies. World leaders listened closely to his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly as Trump has already moved quickly to diminish U.S. support for the world body in his first eight months in office. Even in his first term, he was no fan of the flavor of multilateralism that the United Nations espouses.After his latest inauguration, he issued a first-day executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. That was followed by his move to end U.S. part...