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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 24, 2025 9:23 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Algoma Steel says it is seeking $500 million in federal support as the company faces continued uncertainty from U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel. The Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.-based steel producer says it applied for the funding under the Large Enterprise Tariff Loan program, announced by Ottawa in March to support companies affected by tariffs and countermeasures.The company says in a press release it remains concerned with the “significant impact” that U.S. tariffs are having on its operations and outlook. In...

Professional interpreters are warning that the federal government’s plans to cut its procurement costs could compromise the public’s access to parliamentary, Supreme Court and other official proceedings in both official languages. Jeremy Link, a spokesperson for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said the department recently began a process to replace the federal government’s existing freelance interpretation contracts.As part of that process, the government is seeking to make several major changes to the procurement of services for Parliament and other institutions like the Supreme Court.The Canadian branch of the International Association of Conference Interpreters, AIIC-Canada, said those changes include eliminating measures to protect interpreters’ hearing and adopting a “lowest b...

By Aaron Sousa The Canadian Press Posted July 24, 2025 7:14 am Updated July 24, 2025 7:16 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Inuit leaders Thursday to discuss his government’s controversial major projects legislation. The meeting of the Inuit-Crown Partnership Committee will be co-hosted by Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, in Inuvik, N.W.T.Obed says Inuit have many questions about Bill C-5 and are hoping the...

By Jack Farrell The Canadian Press Posted July 23, 2025 2:43 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta’s immigration minister says he’s concerned about the federal government’s plan this year to accept thousands of parents and grandparents of immigrants who are already in Canada. Joseph Schow says he understands the importance of reuniting families, but provincial health-care systems don’t have the capacity and could be overwhelmed.This year Ottawa plans to approve just over 24,000 parents and grandparents of newcomers this year before reducing its target for the next two years. ...

Now that the British government has vowed to lower its voting age to 16 by the next general election, one Canadian senator says it’s past time for Canada to do the same. The U.K. announced last week that it would lower its voting age from 18 to 16 in a bid to strengthen British democracy and restore trust in politics. Story continues below advertisement Sen. Marilou McPhedran said the issue has been her “top parliamentary priority” since she joined the Red Chamber. She said lowering the voting age to 16 would be good for democracy and that the only arguments against it are “based on stereotypes.”McPhedran said decisions being made in Canada now will affect younger generations and that extending voting rights to younger people is “logical” and “about fairness.”...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast. The move comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a new private-sector pipeline that would send crude oil to the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.Marilyn Slett, president of the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, says in a news release that there is no pipeline or oil tanker project that would be acceptable to their group, and any proposal to send crude oil through their coastal waters is a “non-starter.”The group is asking Carney to uphold the 2019 Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, whic...

By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted July 22, 2025 1:50 pm Updated July 22, 2025 5:09 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the long list of names lining up to flood the ballot in his upcoming federal byelection amounts to a “blatant abuse” of democracy — and he wants the government to do something about it. More than 100 candidates sponsored by the Longest Ballot Committee are registered to run against Poilievre in a byelec...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says negotiations with the United States on trade and security will aim to get the “best deal for Canada.” Carney spoke ahead of meeting with Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., where he is joining the talks on how to build a stronger Canadian economy and tear down internal trade barriers in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs.“What we collectively, alternatively, can most control is building a stronger economy, moving from alliance to resilience and division to unity,” Carney told the media ahead of discussions with premiers.“That will require support for affected industries: lumber, steel, aluminum, automobiles, particularly.”One of the biggest challenges in the current trade war with the U.S., which Carney has been focused on thr...

Are Canadians “mean and nasty” for refusing to travel to the U.S. and pulling American booze from liquor store shelves amid tariff and annexation threats? That’s the view of U.S. President Donald Trump, his ambassador to Canada told a Washington state audience on Monday morning — comments that drew a rebuke from B.C. Premier David Eby. 2:12 Trump’s tariffs on Canada might be here to stay, U.S. Secretary of Commerce says Pete Hoesktra was speaking at the PNWER summit in Bellevue, Wash., when an audience member asked him about Canadians eschewing travel south of the border in the context of the upcoming FIFA 2026 World Cup. Story continu...

The federal auditor general is planning to conduct a review of Canada’s international student program, which has seen a surge in admissions that critics say the country was ill-prepared to handle. A report from the planned audit is expected to be tabled in Parliament in 2026, a spokesperson for Auditor General Karen Hogan’s office told Global News on Monday.“As the audit is in the planning phase, providing information on scope and timelines is premature,” Claire Baudrey said in an emailed statement.The Globe and Mail first reported on the upcoming probe, which was also confirmed by The Canadian Press.Critics, including the opposition Conservatives, have argued Canada’s rapid increase in international student admissions over recent years drove up youth unemployment and worsened the housing ...