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Toronto Zoo warns of extinctions if Ontario mining bill becomes law
TORONTO - Species could go extinct if Ontario passes a controversial mining bill that is set to transform its approach to endangered species and the environment, the Toronto Zoo warned the province. B...
May 23, 2025
Lawyer challenging Trump's trade war says tariffs are 'illegal and abusive'
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's global trade war is an "illegal and abusive" use of power, said a lawyer representing small businesses who are challenging the tariffs. George Mason Universi...
May 23, 2025
New federal energy minister tells oil and gas execs it's time for some quick wins
CALGARY - Canada's new energy minister walked into the lion's den Friday and spoke to oil and gas executives in Calgary about Ottawa's plans to turn the country into an energy superpower. "I'm not her...
May 23, 2025
Several MPs make pitches to colleagues to become next Speaker of the House of Commons
OTTAWA - Among the tour groups converging on Parliament Hill under umbrellas this week, new and newly re-elected members of Parliament are getting acquainted with their offices and colleagues ahead of...
May 23, 2025
'Panic and confusion' for Canadians at Harvard after Trump bans foreign students
Harvard University student Thomas Mete was picking up his brother from high school in Ridgeway, Ont., when he got the news that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was barring the Ivy League ...
May 23, 2025
Conservatives hold onto Windsor riding by four votes after recount
OTTAWA - Conservative Kathy Borrelli has won the Ontario riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lake Shore after a judicial recount confirmed her victory today by just four votes. The Liberals called for a judici...
May 23, 2025
Hundreds of government job losses planned at the CRA, ESDC
OTTAWA - Top officials at the Canada Revenue Agency say mounting job cuts will impact how the agency is able to deliver services. Commissioner Bob Hamilton and deputy commissioner Jean-Franois Fortin ...
May 23, 2025
N.B. announces 3-member panel who will review future of debt-laden power utility
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government has announced a three-person team who will lead a review of the province's debt-laden public power utility. The members are Michael Bernstein, who has worked...
May 23, 2025
Ottawa has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say
OTTAWA - Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister's recent claim that home prices don't need to go down in order to restore housing affordability. Gregor Robertson, the form...
May 23, 2025 Housing experts say home prices indeed need to fall before broad-based affordability returns to Canada. New single family houses billed as estate cottages and townhouses under construction are seen in an aerial view, in Delta, B.C., on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Ontario adding 2,600 teacher candidate spaces amid shortage
TORONTO - Ontario is adding 2,600 spaces to teachers colleges across the province as it stares down a worsening teacher shortage, a move unions say is welcome though will not in isolation solve the pr...
May 23, 2025
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