
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a tough year for the lumber trade. With U.S. housing starts unusually low, demand and prices for lumber are down — even as trade costs, especially for Canadian producers, keep rising.
Canadian exporters were already smarting from the U.S. Commerce Department’s sixth administrative review of antidumping and countervailing duties on softwood lumber imports, which raised the duty rate to an unprecedented 35.16 per cent in July. Then, this week, President Donald Trump whacked an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber imports, citing national security...
October 17, 2025 - 10:34 | Tracy Moran | National Post
Despite extensive searches and thorough investigation of all tips that have come in, police remain in the dark as to Jean Backman's whereabouts two years later.
October 17, 2025 - 10:32 | Sam Thompson | Global News - Canada
You can now view historical data on greenhouse gas emissions in Ottawa
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October 17, 2025 - 10:05 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Foreign affairs minister Anita Anand met with China's counterpart Friday to restart the dialog over shared objectives, including environment, energy and health.
October 17, 2025 - 09:59 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
It is often associated with older adults, but delirium, an acute brain dysfunction that causes confusion and behaviour changes, also affects children, a population in which the condition is both underdiagnosed and potentially dangerous. Read More
October 17, 2025 - 09:39 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
Only 319 units were sold in July, August and September, down 54 per cent compared with the same period last year and 92 per cent below the 10-year average for this time of year.
October 17, 2025 - 09:31 | Uday Rana | Global News - Canada