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OTTAWA — A Crown corporation is forecasting that the Canadian economy will officially fall into a recession this calendar year, part of a global downturn directly linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is forecasting economic growth of just 0.9 per cent for 2025, inching up next year to just one per cent. That growth rate for Canada this year is below that of the United States (1.7 per cent) and the average for developed economies (1.3 per cent) but stronger than Germany and France (0.3 and 0.6 per cent, respectively).
EDC, a Crown...
October 15, 2025 - 06:30 | Simon Tuck | National Post
“I wouldn’t put any money on [Ssense] being around over the next ten years as it is,” Jules (not his real name), a sales agent who works with fashion brands on the site, said when I spoke to him about the company in January. “I don’t think it’s sustainable right now.”
His prediction came as something of a surprise: for over a decade, the Canadian multi-brand e-tailer was a fashion mainstay, infamous for an ironic and meme-centric advertising tone used to court Gen Z consumers who spend their lives online. Whereas sites like Holt Renfrew and Net-a-Porter tend to place their models...
October 15, 2025 - 06:30 | Lauren Cochrane | Walrus
Alberta has legal and constitutional pathways to seizing more power for itself within Confederation, argues a new paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, but the province would need to demonstrate that it can responsibly govern itself and its citizens, the author says.
“We’re not even managing — fully and responsibly managing — areas that are within our jurisdiction of the Constitution as it’s written today,” Michael Rupert Binnion said in an interview. “And yet, we’ve got people talking about, ‘Oh, we’re going to do more.'”
The paper, entitled How the West Wins: Alberta’s legal...
October 15, 2025 - 06:20 | Tyler Dawson | National Post
When five young drug mules, four of them Canadians and one an American, landed in Australia three days before Christmas in 2015, they weren’t whisked through customs by a corrupt border agent, as they had been promised. Nor were the bricks of cocaine in their Samsonite suitcases undetectable by border technology, as they had also been told.
Instead, their luggage was searched and border guards easily found the cocaine, valued at more than $22 million, by tugging on a false bottom built into each suitcase by members of a Mexican drug cartel.
When police officers searched the mules’...
October 15, 2025 - 06:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
The man accused of driving an SUV through a crowded street festival in Vancouver this spring, killing 11, should have been hospitalized by his mental-health team in the days before the attack, say four past and present members of a tribunal that oversees involuntary hospital detentions.These members of the Mental Health Review Board of British Columbia say Kai-Ji Adam Lo’s behaviour before the April 26 attack on the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival should have raised multiple red flags for members of his health team, who are trained to recognize them.
October 15, 2025 - 05:00 | Nancy Macdonald, Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s Health Minister wants to introduce legislation to improve labour mobility for health care workers, mirroring a recent federal bill that removed barriers to interprovincial movement but did not specifically include physicians, nurses and other health professionals.Future legislation would be similar to Bill C-5 and could feature a national licensing system for health care workers, Health Minister Marjorie Michel said in an interview. Bill C-5 was approved by the House of Commons in June and sets out to fast track major nation-building projects.
October 15, 2025 - 05:00 | Matthew Scace, Alanna Smith | The Globe and Mail
