Joe Tay, an actor and journalist running in Monday’s federal election in Canada, has not ventured outside to knock on constituents’ doors. He has not buttonholed voters at the local strip mall. Nor has he been seen schmoozing at public gatherings. Fearing for his safety, Mr. Tay — a critic of the Chinese government, which […]
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Asked to name the biggest threat to Canada’s security during an election debate, Mark Carney, the country’s prime minister and Liberal Party leader running to win a full term, gave a surprising answer: “China.” Analysts saw it as an attempt to distance himself from the country amid heightened scrutiny on his own past work there. […]
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On the night of the 2024 presidential election, Ken James, a retired engineer from Calgary, Alberta, was at his second home in Palm Springs, Calif., watching with dismay as the results rolled in. Mr. James, 68, called his wife back in Calgary. “If he gets back in, I’m selling,” he recalled her saying of Donald […]
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Mark Carney flirted with Canadian politics even as he built a career overseas, rejecting offers to join cabinets at least twice. Then in January, President Trump, threatening tariffs and annexation against Canada, brewed a crisis that seemed tailor-made for one of the world’s most seasoned managers of economic turmoil. Within weeks, Mr. Carney was prime […]
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The melting Arctic icecap. Record-smashing wildfires across several provinces. A country that, on average, is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. And yet, as Canadians go to the polls Monday, climate change isn’t even among the top 10 issues for voters, according to recent polling. “That’s just not what this […]
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As Election Day in Canada looms on Monday, support for the two major parties has started to converge in the polls, yet the race appears to remain the Liberal Party’s to lose. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party now leads the Conservative Party 42 percent to 39 percent on average, according to the CBC’s poll […]
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A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress. The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events […]
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Janet Robertson had few choices after being evicted from her apartment of two decades in Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive city. Even listings in nearby suburbs were out of reach after years of paying 900 Canadian dollars, or $650, monthly for her studio apartment. She kept going until she could find something she could afford and […]
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US-Made Slate EVs Could Fast-Charge At Home With Genius Canadian Tech, Because Aren’t Neighbors Great? | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), (e.src = […]
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Canada Will Let Some US Cars In Tariff Free But Only If You Play Nice | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), (e.src = […]
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Mazda Stops CX-50 Exports To Canada As Tariff War Escalates | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), (e.src = ‘//html-load.com/loader.min.js’), (e.charset = ‘UTF-8’), (e.data […]
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A little-known European company with big ambitions has drawn public outrage in Canada’s largest city. The company, which runs a spa and water park in Romania, is laying extensive plans to develop similar facilities around the world. Its contract in Toronto has offered a blueprint of sorts — a favorable 95-year lease in which the […]
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So much crazy happens with the Trump administration every day that some downright weird but incredibly telling stuff gets lost in the noise. A recent example was the scene on April 8 at the White House where, in the middle of his raging trade war, our president decided it was the perfect time to sign […]
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“He was in our country illegally, he’s from El Salvador, was born in El Salvador, and oh, the media forgot to mention, he is an MS-13 gang member,” McLaughlin said. “The media would love for you to believe that this is a media darling, he’s just some Maryland father. Well, Osama bin Laden was also […]
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“He was in our country illegally, he’s from El Salvador, was born in El Salvador, and oh, the media forgot to mention, he is an MS-13 gang member,” McLaughlin said. “The media would love for you to believe that this is a media darling, he’s just some Maryland father. Well, Osama bin Laden was also […]
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As Canada barrels through one of the stormiest periods in its history toward an April 28 federal election, there’s a name that’s not on the ballot but is on people’s minds: Danielle Smith. Ms. Smith, the premier of Alberta, the Western province often called the Texas of Canada because of its oil, ranches and conservative […]
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Trump’s Tariffs Crush Canada’s Auto Industry As Thousands Threatened With Layoffs | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!– !(function (e, t) { var siteId = ‘46307’; var r; let a = !!navigator.userAgent.match( /iPad|iPod|iPhone|Android|BlackBerry|Windows Phone|Opera Mini|IEMobile|webOS/i ), o = function () { var e = t.createElement(‘script’); (e.id = ‘lzORaekbHNiuS’), (e[‘data-cfasync’] = ‘false’), (e.src = ‘//html-load.com/loader.min.js’), (e.charset = ‘UTF-8’), […]
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Back home for the first time since the start of the campaign, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader seeking to become Canada’s next prime minister, fired up his most ardent supporters with his greatest hits. Thousands had come to a cavernous building in an industrial park in central Alberta, many parking by the roadside and walking […]
Read More Back home for the first time since the start of the campaign, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader seeking to become Canada’s next prime minister, fired up his most ardent supporters with his greatest hits. Thousands had come to a cavernous building in an industrial park in central Alberta, many parking by the roadside and walking […]
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President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the auto industry, prompting companies to stop shipping cars to the United States, shut down factories in Canada and Mexico and lay off workers in Michigan and other states. Jaguar Land Rover, based in Britain, said […]
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Ryan Bivens, a Kentucky grain farmer who sells corn to one of America’s biggest bourbon and whiskey producers, operated at a loss last year as he faced higher production costs from persistent inflation. President Trump’s trade war is about to make that economic pain even worse. Industries across the United States are bracing for higher […]
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Though Canada’s election began in earnest only late last month, public opinion polls have captured a gripping political narrative that has been unfolding since the start of the year. Between President Trump’s trade war, his threats of annexation and the resignation of Canada’s last prime minister, a lot happened in the run-up to this race […]
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Carrying his 6-year-old daughter on his shoulders, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader running to lead Canada, was wading through a crowd of well-wishers in his electoral district in Ottawa. “Hey, there he is, Mr. Alexander!” he said, gripping the hand of Mark Alexander, whose dairy farm the politician had visited 21 years ago on […]
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The digital billboards began popping up recently on busy thoroughfares in Pittsburgh and more than a dozen other American cities and towns. The simple white letters on a stark black background carried a pointed message. Tariffs are a tax on groceries. Tariffs are a tax at the gas pump. Tariffs are a tax on hardworking […]
Read MoreThe pain of having teeth pulled and gums prodded for denture fittings was followed by relief at the payment counter: The $4,000 worth of work would cost Ron Brydges nothing under Canada’s new national dental care program. “This dental plan being free was just a godsend,” said Mr. Brydges, 84, a retired industrial mechanic in […]
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