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First Nation looks to develop 'wealth fund' for major projects investments
OTTAWA - A First Nation in Ontario is looking to create what it's calling a "sovereign wealth fund" to bypass government and move major projects forward faster with Indigenous participation. The First...
Nov 24, 2025
Budget watchdog calls for more transparency after Liberals shift fiscal anchors
OTTAWA - Ottawa is not planning to set up an independent body to scrutinize the new capital framework in its budget, despite calls for more transparency from the government's fiscal watchdog. Interim ...
Nov 24, 2025
Canada, India revive negotiations for comprehensive trade deal, after 15-year attempt
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are reviving attempts at a comprehensive trade deal, which both countries started negotiating in 2010. "The two leader...
Nov 23, 2025
Carney: No 'burning issue' to bring up with Trump, talks to resume when 'appropriate'
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in no hurry to resume trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump but will speak again with the president "when it's appropriate," Carney said on Sunday. ...
Nov 23, 2025
Ottawa is 'rebooting' its relationship with the tech industry, advocates say
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney told a business crowd in Montreal recently that the federal government got a bit of outside help on a major piece of innovation policy in the recently passed federa...
Nov 22, 2025
Carney in South Africa as concerns grow over U.S. boycott of G20
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Africa for a G20 summit overshadowed by a U.S. boycott - and as critics of Canada's Africa strategy closely watch Carney's first trip to the regio...
Nov 21, 2025
Dairy, whiskey, wine and steel: American industries weigh in on trade pact review
WASHINGTON - American industries ranging from whiskey makers and Wisconsin dairy producers to steel and automobile associations have weighed in on the future of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on tra...
Nov 21, 2025
Canada cuts back spending on fighting infectious diseases at G20 in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney has made Canada's first-ever cut to funding for a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world's poorest countries - a move that has been sharp...
Nov 21, 2025
Sidhu: $6-billion trade infrastructure fund key to doubling non-U.S. exports
OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said he's witnessed a sea change in interest for Canadian exports headed outside the United States amid the ongoing tariff war with the U.S. Sidhu ...
Nov 21, 2025
How crypto raiders tortured B.C. family with waterboarding, sex assault, in $2M heist
PORT COQUITLAM - When a woman answered a knock at the door of her home in Port Moody, B.C., in the spring of 2024, she was met by two men in Canada Post uniforms who said they had a package to deliver...
Nov 21, 2025 In this June 1, 2021, file photo, a woman walks past an advertisement for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
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Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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