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April 23, 2026 - 04:00 | Nicole Feriancek | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — A free-market think tank is warning that high taxes and big government are snuffing out private sector entrepreneurship in Canada.
“Entrepreneurship — the heartbeat of innovation, job creation and economic growth — is in sharp decline (and) has been declining for decades in Canada,” warns a new report from the Montreal Economic Institute.
The report shows that the number of self-employed Canadians with paid employees peaked at about 867,000 in 2005. By 2025, that number had dropped to 716,000, a decline of 17 per cent, even as Canada’s population grew by roughly one-third...
April 23, 2026 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
The Canadian Forces will go to the defence industry sometime this year to gather information on what domestic firms can offer in the building of a new $5 billion fleet of warships. Read More
April 23, 2026 - 04:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
Before Amna Hakim signed the lease on Love Lyla Books, she was an online retailer. For years, she sold a curated collection of books by Muslim authors through her website so she could work around her children's schedules. Read More
April 23, 2026 - 04:00 | Sofia Misenheimer | Ottawa Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When fireworks light up the skies for Canada Day, it’s looking less likely that the country will also be celebrating the renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). July 1 was meant to be the deadline for the countries to decide whether to extend the agreement after a review, launch annual reviews, or withdraw.
The deal is valuable, so Ottawa is keen to secure as much duty-free trade with Washington as possible. Yet, while negotiation rounds have taken place between the U.S. and Mexico, and the first formal meetings for the two are set to begin, there has...
April 23, 2026 - 04:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
Jeanie McKay alleged gender discrimination by York Regional Police because she said they didn't investigate her allegations of historical sexual abuse from the 1980s. She took her case to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and it was settled with an non-disclosure agreement — a restriction that transparency advocates say shields public institutions from accountability.
April 23, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
