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OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford continued to blast Canada’s recent trade agreement with China on Monday, noting that he and Canadian automakers only learned of the deal a few hours before it was announced.
“I found out about this deal, and the auto companies found out, by the way, a few hours before it was announced, so much for the partnership,” he said, during a speech in front of the Rural Ontario Municipal Association’s annual general meeting in Toronto.
On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a “landmark agreement” between China and Canada that would see China reduce...
January 19, 2026 - 12:24 | Jordan Gowling | National Post
OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford continued to blast Canada’s recent trade agreement with China on Monday, noting that he and Canadian automakers only learned of the deal a few hours before it was announced.
“I found out about this deal, and the auto companies found out, by the way, a few hours before it was announced, so much for the partnership,” he said, during a speech in front of the Rural Ontario Municipal Association’s annual general meeting in Toronto.
On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a “landmark agreement” between China and Canada that would see China reduce...
January 19, 2026 - 12:24 | Jordan Gowling | National Post
Bloomberg News is reporting that Mark Carney is considering sending Canadian soldiers to Greenland, in the midst of U.S. President Donald Trump’s continued pressure to acquire the island for U.S. interests.
The news agency said it spoke to a person familiar with the matter, under condition that the person not be named. It confirmed earlier reports by
CBC News...
January 19, 2026 - 12:12 | Chris Knight | National Post
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he only received a few hours notice about the federal government’s deal with China on electric vehicles, as he warned the move will hurt his province’s auto workers in the long term.Mr. Ford on Monday continued his criticism of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s deal to allow nearly 50,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles into Canada at a low tariff rate, in return for significant reductions in Beijing’s levies on canola seed and a promised elimination of its tariffs on a host of other products.
January 19, 2026 - 12:10 | Laura Stone | The Globe and Mail
Donald Trump is apparently a stranger to the famous military maxim—sometimes attributed to Napoleon—“Never reinforce failure.”
The American president’s latest gambit, announced in the usual way, on Truth Social, threatens to slap tariffs on a set of European countries who have deployed small military contingents to Greenland and refused to support his stated desire to take over the Arctic island, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The latest Trump threat is expressed at unusual length. It mixes grievance, chest thumping, and threats, in typical Trump style.
What’s the...
January 19, 2026 - 12:08 | Wesley Wark | Walrus
Patient medical records are being streamlined into a single digitized record system in Nova Scotia, preventing overlap and delays in what officials say could be a valuable model for other provinces to emulate.
The new system – dubbed One Person One Record – was implemented last month at Halifax’s Izaak Walton Killam Hospital (IWK) Health Centre and is expected to go province-wide by year’s end.
“The clinical information system reduces a patient’s need to repeat health history for each provider and streamlines appointment scheduling and transitions between providers and care settings...
January 19, 2026 - 12:01 | Special to National Post | National Post
