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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 10, 2025 2:35 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Premier François Legault says Quebec doesn’t have the capacity to take in more immigrants amid a surge in the number of asylum seekers arriving at the province’s border with the United States. Legault told reporters Thursday in Sherrington, Que., that the sheer numbers are stretching Quebec’s social security net to the limit. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is pausing his federal election campaign for a third time to tackle U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating global trade war. Carney, who is campaigning as the Liberal Party leader but retains caretaker authorities as the current prime minister during a federal election, said he will return to Ottawa to convene a meeting of the cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations and national security officials on Friday.This comes after Trump paused his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days on dozens of countries facing rates higher than his 10 per cent baseline.Canada was not included in that list of countries to face “reciprocal” tariffs but does face three other sets of tariffs imposed over the last six weeks: 25 per cent general U.S. export tariffs, 25 per cent ...

Vaughan is looking to rename a residential street currently dubbed “America Avenue” given the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war. The city, which is located just north of Toronto, has a survey on its website regarding the street’s renaming, indicating it favours switching it to “Terry Fox Avenue” in celebration of Canadian identity.“Terry Fox is one of Canada’s most beloved national heroes, whose courage, determination and selflessness have inspired generations of Canadians and raised millions of dollars for cancer research,” it said.“Before any decision is made on the street renaming, the city wants to understand how residents living on America Avenue feel about this proposed change.”The survey is only open to Vaughan residents who live on America Avenue, which is near J...

The European Union’s executive commission said Thursday it will put retaliation measures on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump’s pause on his sweeping new tariffs on global trading partners and leave room for a negotiated solution. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the commission, which handles trade for the bloc’s 27 member countries, “took note of the announcement by President Trump.”New tariffs on 20.9 billion euros ($23 billion) of US goods will be put on hold for 90 days because “we want to give negotiations a chance,” she said in a statement.But she warned: “If negotiations are not satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in.”We took note of the announcement by President Trump.We want to give negotiations a chance.While finalising the adopt...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 4:27 pm Updated April 9, 2025 4:28 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two Nova Scotia men are appealing a judge’s dismissal of their court challenge of then-prime minister Justin Trudeau’s move to prorogue Parliament earlier this year. David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos had asked the Federal Court to declare the suspension of Parliament illegal because there must be a “reasonable justification” for hitting the pause bu...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging the “biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history” by targeting three-time serious offenders with maximum life imprisonment. The Conservative Party of Canada unveiled its crime plan Wednesday, proposing to pass what it calls a “Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out” law.Under this policy, anyone convicted of three serious offences will become ineligible for bail, probation, parole or house arrest, Poilievre said at a campaign stop in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., on Wednesday.These three-time serious criminals will serve a minimum prison term of 10 years and up to a maximum life sentence, he said.Poilievre added that the proposed law would also designate such perpetrators as “dangerous offenders,” a legal classification that means an offender cannot be r...

China again vowed to “fight to the end” Wednesday in an escalating trade war with the U.S. as it announced it would raise tariffs on American goods to 84 per cent from Thursday. Beijing also added an array of countermeasures after U.S. President Donald Trump raised the total tariff on imports from China to 104 per cent.“If the U.S. insists on further escalating its economic and trade restrictions, China has the firm will and abundant means to take necessary countermeasures and fight to the end,” the Ministry of Commerce wrote in a statement introducing its white paper on trade with the U.S.The government declined to say whether it would negotiate with the White House, as many other countries have started doing.On Friday, China announced a 34 per cent tariff on all goods imported from the U...

Ottawa has exempted a small New Brunswick island off the coast of Maine from Canadian counter-tariffs it imposed on U.S. goods amid President Donald Trump’s trade war — goods the island’s residents rely on for their daily needs. Campobello Island is only accessible year-round by a bridge connecting it to the closest town, Lubec, Maine.Because of its geography, the island’s population of under 1,000 people often travel across the border for gas, groceries and other items, but have faced 25 per cent tariffs on those goods since early March.Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is running for re-election as the Liberal candidate in Saint Maurice-Champlain, said Tuesday that the federal government has granted a “special exemption from previous tariff countermeasures on U.S. consume...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 8:25 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Liberal and NDP leaders will take their campaigns to Saskatchewan on Wednesday as the federal election race nears the halfway mark. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is set to make an announcement and speak at the First Nations Summit in Vancouver, before making his way to Saskatoon for a campaign event.There are 14 federal ridings in Saskatchewan, which has been a sea of blue in recent federal elections.Liberal Leader Mark Carney is expected to make an announcement and meet with young supporters and volunteers...

With Canada’s future relationship with the United States dominating the federal election campaign so far, a new poll is shedding some light on which party Canadians think would be best to manage the country’s resources — one of the pillars of our economic relationship with the Americans. When asked which party and leader would do the best job at managing Canada’s energy and resources, a majority of the respondents to the Ipsos poll, commissioned exclusively for Global News, chose the federal Liberals and their leader Mark Carney, over the Conservatives and their leader Pierre Poilievre.Overall, 69 per cent of those surveyed said Canada needs to “act faster on opportunities for developing energy and resource projects in light of the dispute with the U.S.” — including 26 per cent of responde...