Unpublished Newswire
Canada is proceeding full-speed ahead on one of the most, if not the most, expensive single military purchases in this country’s history. The plan is to buy up to 12 new submarines to replace the navy's current aging fleet of Victoria-class boats. Read More
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — The upcoming federal budget will feature a broad new strategy to boost the performance of Canadian business, including measures to allow companies to write off their new machinery and other capital costs more aggressively, National Post has learned.
Government sources confirmed that the budget, to be unveiled next week, will take aim at Canada’s lagging productivity and competitiveness, while reducing the risk and uncertainty of corporate investment.
The new strategy, largely a response to Canada’s tariff battles with the United States and China, will include changes to the...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
OTTAWA — When Mark Carney was first campaigning for the job of Liberal leader and, ultimately, prime minister, he cast himself as a political outsider.
After winning the job, Carney recruited another political outsider to join his ranks: Energy Minister Tim Hodgson.
Hodgson and Carney go way back. The prime minister tapped Hodgson to serve as his special advisor when he was appointed governor of the Bank of Canada. A former investment banker, Hodgson joined the Liberals as a political newbie and was soon handed the file of natural resources. It comes at a time when the prime...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is embarking on a mass campaign of inspections after last year’s deadly listeria outbreak in plant-based milks, and will examine more than 2,400 food-production facilities that are licensed to operate but have not yet been inspected. The blitz, which the CFIA is calling the largest co-ordinated inspection effort ever undertaken in the manufactured-food sector, comes after an outbreak at a facility in Pickering, Ont., that killed three people in the summer of 2024, and sickened dozens more. The factory was never scrutinized for listeria protocols...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Grant Robertson, Kathryn Blaze Baum | The Globe and Mail
Eight days before his death, L.L. was checked by his family doctor in Burlington, Ont. The 12-year-old weighed less than he did when he was six years old and had stopped growing, but the doctor didn’t send him to hospital.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A joint task force in Kingston has been targeting drones delivering contraband into prisons.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
