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With just one week left until Canada’s tax “holiday” ends, new data suggests it may have had little impact in its first month. Moneris looked into spending patterns between Dec. 14, 2024, when the tax “holiday” began and Jan. 15. Comparing the data to the same period in 2023-24, the payment processing firm found no year-over-year increases in spendingIn fact, the data showed purchasing may have slowed during that time.Across Canada, the data showed overall spending was down by four per cent, with the transaction count down by one per cent and the transaction size down by three per cent.“Consumers…

It’s no secret that U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t the biggest fan of Prince Harry, but could the change in presidential power lead to the prince’s deportation from the United States? The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, the presidency blueprint that Trump has been heavily mirroring in the early weeks of his second term, has been pushing to know more about the prince’s immigration status and records ever since the royal admitted to using drugs in the past in his memoir, Spare.The think tank wants Harry’s immigration paperwork released, arguing there’s a possibility the Duke of…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 6, 2025 2:10 pm Updated February 6, 2025 2:14 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s energy minister says Ottawa and the provinces should discuss the possibility of an oil pipeline to Eastern Canada to improve energy security. Jonathan Wilkinson says it’s a “vulnerability” for Canada to export so much of its oil to the United States in the context of the Trump administration’s tariff threats. 1:37 Tariff pause cautiously welcomed by Alberta energy, business experts He also says the fact that Ontario and Quebec are served…

The Liberal Party appears to be enjoying a polling bump at the expense of the Conservatives after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement he will not lead the party into the next election, according to the latest numbers from Ipsos Research for Global News. Trudeau’s pending departure and the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war seem to be tightening the race in federal voting intention, despite voters not knowing who will become the next Liberal leader and prime minister.Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives still have a commanding lead in the national poll, with 41 per cent of respondents saying they’d vote…

Three cabinet ministers are wrapping up their visit to Washington, D.C., and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to address the mayors of some of Canada’s biggest cities as Canada’s 30-day reprieve from U.S. tariffs continues. Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Defence Minister Bill Blair and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne are all in Washington, wrapping up meetings with U.S. officials this week. The three ministers are expected to speak to the media Thursday.A group of mayors of the 23 largest cities in Canada are also meeting Thursday in Ottawa to “discuss key shared priorities amid an upcoming federal election, and…

Sitting in the depths of Steve Bannon‘s chaotic War Room, Global News has an important question for the right-wing media mogul: How seriously should we be taking the president’s insistence that Canada should become the 51st state?Very, apparently.Bannon, a former top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, says he knows exactly what’s going on. Dramatically shaking his rumpled grey hair, he tells me that we, Canadians, are “misreading the situation” before crossing his arms and launching into a spiel that he seems to have been waiting his whole life for — drawing from his experience serving in the navy, in…

After getting a 30-day tariff reprieve from the U.S. government, Defence Minister Bill Blair said he believes Canada can avoid further tariff threats if Ottawa can show the recent border plan is stopping the flow of drugs and migrants into the U.S. “They asked that we do a better job of policing our side of the border, and we’ve agreed to invest significantly on that,” Blair told Global News from Washington, D.C.“If we are able to demonstrate that those investments are producing real results for both of our countries … then we may be able to avoid a return to…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl. The Conservative leader said early Wednesday the penalty should be the same as murder.The Conservatives also want traffickers caught with between 20 mg and 40 mg of the drug to be sentenced to 15 years in prison.According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, two milligrams can kill a person. Health Canada says “a few grains” can be deadly. 0:45 Fentanyl czar to work across jurisdictions: McGuinty…

Despite a pause in U.S. tariffs, there is looming uncertainty and concern about how a potential trade war could hit Canada’s medicine supplies. Canada has been given a 30-day reprieve from U.S. tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump, but that has done little to allay fears in the pharmaceutical realm.“I think there’s a concern here that any sort of tariff war on this space could send ripples throughout the supply chain,” said Mina Tadrous, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.Tadrous told Global News the concern stems from the fact that the supply chain…

Canada is making “incredible” progress in removing three major internal trade barriers, Transport and Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand told reporters in Halifax on Wednesday. Anand described the work as “fast-paced progress with all of the provinces and territories.”“We had an urgent meeting on Friday of the relevant ministers. At that meeting, we reached three strong recommendations,” she said.Canada’s Committee on Internal Trade met last week to discuss how to open up trade between Canada’s provinces. Anand said the first major recommendation that the committee agreed to implement is mutual recognition of regulations across the country.“That is, in other words,…