Unpublished Newswire

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said he is “very involved” in negotiations with the U.S., as a new 50 per-cent U.S. tariff is set to hit a host of Canadian goods in just two weeks. “We’re in the middle of negotiations, and Minister Leblanc, Janice Charette, who’s our chief negotiator, are in Washington as Ambassador Wiseman, obviously there, in a series of meetings related to this,” said Carney, during a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday. “I’m very involved in this as well, and we’ll see.” Carney said the Canadian negotiating team remains focused on providing some relief...

OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge cancelled an “unreasonable” order to release an accused murderer and international fugitive with alleged ties to India’s infamous Bishnoi gang pending the end of his immigration legal process. In a stern decision issued Monday, Federal Court judge Phuong T.V. Ngo slapped down a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ordering the release of Karamveer Singh on certain conditions while he fights a deportation order against him. Ngo found that the release decision failed to account for many serious concerns with the provenance of over $100,...