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More memorial masses planned for victims in Vancouver festival attack
By Canadian Press on May 3rd, 2025
VANCOUVER — People in Vancouver and beyond remain in mourning one week after a deadly attack on a Filipino street festival. The Vancouver archdiocese says on social media that additional memorial masses are being planned to remember the 11 people killed at the Lapu Lapu Day festival last Saturday. It says events are being planned ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A family and a festival: How Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
By Canadian Press on May 3rd, 2025
VANCOUVER — In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus’ Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded. “Brother, we will get to see this together sometime,” wrote Adam Kai-Ji Lo. But he knew it wasn’t to be. Alexander Lo had ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous leaders hopeful for Carney-led government on economy, reconciliation
By Canadian Press on May 3rd, 2025
OTTAWA — Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed says he doesn’t expect Prime Minister Mark Carney to get everything right immediately as he learns about and crafts policies for Indigenous Peoples, but it’s clear he’s willing to learn. And the leaders of the three national Indigenous organizations say that while former prime minister Justin Trudeau ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Three quarters of Canadians say misinformation affected the federal election: poll
By Canadian Press on May 3rd, 2025
OTTAWA — More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP has lost touch with its core supporters, says a former MP
By Canadian Press on May 3rd, 2025
OTTAWA — The New Democratic Party ran a leader-focused election campaign and lost touch with core supporters who ended up backing the Conservatives, says a former member of Parliament. Charlie Angus, who did not run in the last election after representing the northern Ontario riding of Timmins — James Bay for more than two decades, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Cut them off’: Canadians angry, defiant as U.S. tariffs take effect
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2025
HALIFAX — Canadians are remaining defiant in the face of punishing U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, promising to use their wallets to fight the trade war launched on Tuesday by President Donald Trump. Hours after Trump imposed 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on products from Canada, and a 10 per cent levy on energy, Haligonians ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec companies vulnerable to U.S. tariffs eligible for loans up to $50 million
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2025
MONTREAL — Promising Quebecers to protect them against the “unjustified attack” of U.S. tariffs, Premier François Legault announced retaliatory measures on Tuesday and a program to offer vulnerable companies with up to $50 million in loans. Legault’s announcement came hours after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on Canadian goods, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A closer look at Canadian efforts to address U.S. concerns about border security
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2025
OTTAWA — The United States imposed sweeping tariffs Tuesday on Canadian products, claiming Canada has failed to adequately address the southbound flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the U.S. rationale as “completely bogus, completely unjustified, completely false.” “Our border is already safe and secure,” Trudeau told a news conference Tuesday. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Up to $50 million in loans for Quebec companies vulnerable to U.S. tariffs
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2025
MONTREAL — Quebec Premier François Legault says companies vulnerable to U.S. tariffs can apply for loans up to $50 million. Legault announced the new loan program today, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on Canadian goods, and a 10 per cent levy on energy products. The premier says the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada and U.S. stock markets fall for a second day after trade war launched
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2025
TORONTO — North American stock markets fell for a second day as the U.S. imposed broad tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, triggering a continental trade war. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 380.80 points at 24,620.77 in early-afternoon trading, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order implementing the tariffs took effect just after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa pauses preventive health task force amid review over breast cancer screening recommendations
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2025
TORONTO — Federal Health Minister Mark Holland is temporarily suspending the work of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, which has come under fire for not recommending breast cancer screening for women under 50. Last year Holland ordered an external review of the task force, which provides guidance for primary health-care providers, after ... Read More »
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