Category Archives: Canada
Has business tuned out Trump’s temper tantrums?
MONTREAL - Like exhausted parents, Canada's business community seems to be increasingly tuning out the temper tantrums coming from downstairs. On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was...
Oct 25, 2025
Carney aims to sell Canada as reliable partner for trade in Southeast Asia
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching Canada as a reliable partner for Southeast Asia, one that's committed to rules-based trade at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is rewriting...
Oct 25, 2025
AI experts say CRA must fix human responses before pursuing AI
OTTAWA - Experts in artificial intelligence say it's risky for the Canada Revenue Agency to turn to artificial intelligence to help Canadians with their tax problems when human call centre employees h...
Oct 25, 2025
Former Mulroney aides say Ontario ads accurately present Reagan's views on trade
OTTAWA - Associates of former prime minister Brian Mulroney say Ronald Reagan's embrace of free trade and rejection of tariffs grew out of the late U.S. president's relationship with his Canadian coun...
Oct 24, 2025
Vancouver authorities should have known festival attacker posed threat, lawsuit says
VANCOUVER - In the weeks before a deadly attack at a Vancouver Filipino festival, suspect Adam Kai-Ji Lo asked to have his antipsychotic medication reduced, even as his mental health was deteriorating...
Oct 24, 2025
Chief says he's offended by mandatory federal branding on Orange Shirt Day funding
OTTAWA - The chief of James Smith Cree Nation says he's offended by Ottawa's requirement that promotional materials for Orange Shirt Day events funded by the federal government carry government brandi...
Oct 24, 2025
Fact File: Ontario's Reagan ad isn't 'fake,' but what's the context behind his words?
U.S. President Donald Trump ended trade talks with Canada on Thursday night over what he called a "fake" Ontario government advertisement featuring the words of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Th...
Oct 24, 2025
Inquiry into cost-overrun scandal at Quebec's auto insurance board wraps up
MONTREAL - Public hearings into $500 million in cost overruns at Quebec's auto insurance board have wrapped up. Commissioner Denis Gallant has until Feb. 13, 2026, to submit his report with recommenda...
Oct 24, 2025
Anand says she's asked for updated Indo-Pacific strategy as PM heads to Asia
OTTAWA - As Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his first official trip to Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the regional policy the Trudeau government released three years ago is outdated ...
Oct 24, 2025
Cowichan lawyer says treaty could recognize both Aboriginal and private title on land
VICTORIA - The lawyer representing the Cowichan Tribes said he is "frustrated and disappointed" with what he calls "misinformation" about his clients' ground-breaking Aboriginal title case in Richmond...
Oct 24, 2025