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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has been told that a media report about Honda planning to switch some car production from Canada to the United States is “not accurate.” Ford told reporters on Tuesday that he spoke to the president of Honda Canada, who will be making a statement to clarify the report from Reuters, which cited Japanese newspaper Nikkei and quickly stirred fears of job losses amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.“They want to increase production down in the U.S., they’re at 100 per cent capacity right now, so they’re going to make a statement. I’ll let them make their statement, but they’re saying that’s not accurate,” Ford said about the report.“We’re going to keep Honda here, and I’ll do everything I can to protect the people and their jobs.” Story continu...

Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton is a federal riding located in Quebec.This riding is currently represented by Bloc Québécois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay who first took office in 2019. Savard-Tremblay collected 25,165 votes, winning 47.45 per cent of the vote in the 2019 federal election.Voters will decide who will represent Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton in Quebec during the upcoming Canadian election on April 28, 2025.Visit this page on election night for a complete breakdown of up to the minute results. Candidates Bloc Québécois: Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay (Incumbent) Liberal: Mélanie Bédard Conservative: Gaëtan Deschênes ...

The federal government says it’s freezing more than US$2.2 billion in grants and US$60 million in contracts to Harvard University, after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus. The hold on Harvard’s funding marks the seventh time President Donald Trump’s administration has taken the step at one of the nation’s most elite colleges, in an attempt to force compliance with Trump’s political agenda. Six of the seven schools are in the Ivy League.In a letter to Harvard Friday, Trump’s administration had called for broad government and leadership reforms at the university, as well as changes to its admissions policies. It also demanded the university audit views of diversity on campus, and stop recognizing some student clubs.The federal g...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Overall inflation eased for Canadians in March, but the end of the GST/HST holiday and U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war continues to stress consumers in Canada. Statistics Canada said Tuesday that the annual pace of inflation cooled to 2.3 per cent in March, compared to 2.6 per cent the month before.The numbers defied analysts expectations, who expected inflation to remain unchanged from February. Experts believe that Canada managed to keep the rate of inflation below two per cent until December because of the GST/HST holiday, which lasted from Dec. 9 to Feb. 15. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up fo...

As the federal party leaders prepare to face off in debates in Montreal this week, experts say they’re likely working on positive body language and polishing their French skills.Dan Arnold, chief strategy officer at Pollara and former pollster for the Trudeau Liberals, said the leaders probably have been taking part in “mock debates” in rented-out studios with their teams before the big show.Those debates are probably recorded, to allow the campaign teams to analyze what worked and what didn’t in terms of communication and body language.Arnold said Trudeau did “at least half a dozen if not more” mock leadership debates before the 2015 campaign actually started. Given his chaotic year, he said, Liberal Leader Mark Carney may not have had as much time to prepare as other candidates. ...

The federal party leaders are set to hit the debate stage this week, each preparing to pitch their plan for the country just days ahead of when many Canadians will cast their votes in advanced polls. Liberal Leader Mark Carney; Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre; NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh; Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault will face off in the French-language debate on April 16, with the English debate taking place on April 17.Each leader qualified for the debates based on meeting two of three criteria set by the federal debates commission, either by holding a seat in the House of Commons when the election was called, having a national polling average of at least four per cent by March 31, or have candidates endorsed in at least 90 ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba is set to partner with other provinces and territories to help power infrastructure projects. The provincial government issued a directive to Manitoba Hydro Monday to redirect some of its expiring electricity export contracts with the United States to provide power to homegrown projects here in Canada, as trade tensions continue between both countries.Contracts worth 500 megawatts of power will be redirected by the Crown corporation to initiatives including development of the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link, a 50-megawatt project aimed at providing power and telecommunications infrastructure to northern communities in Nuvavut.“Manitoba is a province of builders an...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 14, 2025 2:33 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to shore up Canada’s struggling health care system by hiring 35,000 nurses by 2030. Appearing Monday at an election event in Toronto, Singh also promised to ensure safe working conditions for nurses and an appropriate ratio between nurses and patients.Though he didn’t say what that ratio would be, a party spokesperson said an NDP government would work with the provinces and territories on it.Singh called out the use of private nursing agencies by provincial government...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he wants to use the notwithstanding clause — which has never been used by a federal government before — to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to allow judges to impose consecutive life sentences for murderers. In 2022, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that “the section of the Criminal Code that permits consecutive parole ineligibility periods of 25 years in cases involving multiple first-degree murders” was unconstitutional.Poilievre announced his plan Monday to use the notwithstanding clause to pass legislation that he says would restore power for judges to hand down consecutive life sentences for perpetrators who have committed multiple murders.If he follows through, this would be the first federal use of the controversial notwithstanding cl...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Liberal Leader Mark Carney is calling the actions of two party campaign staffers who were reported over the weekend to have planted buttons that included “stop the steal” wording at a conservative event “totally unacceptable,” and says they’ve been reassigned within the campaign. “This is totally unacceptable to be absolutely clear,” he said. “I was unaware of this behaviour, but on behalf of my campaign I apologize for it. I’ve made it absolutely clear to my campaign that this behaviour, anything approximating it or in that spirit, is unacceptable and cannot happen again.”Carney said the two staffers have been “reassigned.”The buttons, which appeared to use language similar to that of U.S...