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Canada must strengthen ties with France and other allies in the face of geopolitical and economic crises, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday in France. Making opening remarks in Paris before a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Carney stressed both countries’ shared values of sovereignty, solidarity and sustainability. “Those are values that we hold […]

The Bank of Canada cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point as it warns trade uncertainty is already hurting the Canadian economy. The move marks the central bank’s seventh consecutive interest rate cut and brings its key rate down to 2.75 per cent. While inflation has been well-behaved and the economy was picking […]

REGINA – For the umpteenth day in a row I am writing about tariffs, and this time I’m doing it on a day when the American stock market is tanking again. The Dow Jones dropped almost 900 points Monday due to recession fears. All the talk on the financial news down there in the USA […]

President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices and isn’t ruling out the possibility of a recession this year. Also, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International […]

Federal Liberals elected Mark Carney to lead their party into the next election in a resounding first-ballot victory on Sunday. He beat former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, Liberal MP Karina Gould and former Liberal MP Frank Baylis by capturing 85.9 per cent of the vote. This brings an end to an unusually short, two-month long […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that freedom, democracy and Canada “are not a given” in his farewell speech to Liberals as they prepare to select a new leader. This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Canada with economic annexation and places tariffs on Canadian imports coming into the States. In Trudeau’s speech, the outgoing […]

The Canadian labour market felt a chill in February with employment “virtually unchanged” from the month before, Statistics Canada said Friday. The Canadian economy added just 1,100 jobs last month, the agency said, well below the 76,000 jobs added in January. Economists polled by Reuters ahead of Friday had expected an increase of 20,000 new […]

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Wednesday the province will stop purchasing American booze and work to stop buying other U.S. goods. His comments come one day after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods, along with a 10 per cent levy on Canadian energy. Speaking to reporters in Regina, Moe said […]

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it’s seen an increase in complaints about items mislabelled as products of Canada or missing information about their country of origin. The federal organization enforcing labelling standards on food products says the rash of complaints have come in the last few months, when Canadians were increasingly supporting local businesses […]

Markets Plunge as Trump Tariffs Spark Economic Turmoil Stock markets across North America and beyond are in freefall following the latest round of tariffs imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump. The New York Stock Exchange is down nearly 2 percent and still falling, while the NASDAQ composite has dropped over 1 percent. In Canada, […]