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Ottawa wins Federal Court appeal allowing single-use plastics ban to stand
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court decision, giving Ottawa the power to keep its ban on single-use plastics in place. A 2023 Federal Court decision said Ottawa had overstepped in designating all “plastic manufactured items” as toxic. But in a unanimous decision Friday, the three-judge panel ruled the federal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Insurance policy doesn’t entitle couple to additional rebuilding costs: Supreme Court
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with an insurance company in a dispute over coverage for a family whose home on the Ottawa River was declared a total loss due to flooding. Trillium Mutual Insurance Co. acknowledged that the loss of Stephen and Claudette Emond’s house in April 2019 was covered under ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Court of Appeal rules decision underlying feds plastic ban ‘reasonable’
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court decision, giving Ottawa the power to keep its ban on single-use plastics in place. The lower court’s 2023 decision said Ottawa had overstepped in designating all “plastic manufactured items” as toxic. But in a unanimous decision Friday, the three-judge panel ruled the federal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Extreme cold disrupts Hydro-Québec exports to Massachusetts during spike in power use
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
MONTRÉAL — Extreme cold forced Hydro-Québec to temporarily suspend its energy exports to Massachusetts just one week after inaugurating its new line. Hydro-Québec and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs both confirmed the news, which was first reported by specialized media outlet E&E News. The decision came as last weekend’s polar vortex ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal deficit $26.4B for April-to-November period: fiscal monitor
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — The federal government posted a deficit of $26.4 billion for the first eight months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. In its fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $22.7 billion for the same April-to-November period a year earlier. Revenue for the period totalled $317.2 billion, up from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney calls Trump’s U.S. Fed chair pick, Warsh, a “fantastic choice’
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering his seal of approval on U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve. Trump said earlier today he would nominate former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to replace outgoing chair Jerome Powell when his term expires in the spring. Carney, a former central banker ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal Court of appeal to rule on Ottawa’s single-use plastics ban today
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — The Federal Court of appeal is expected issue a ruling that could end Ottawa’s ban of some single-use plastics today. In 2023, a Federal Court judge said Ottawa had overstepped in designating all “plastic manufactured items” as toxic. Ottawa appealed that ruling, which came a year after the federal government used the toxic ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Economy stalled in November and may have contracted in Q4: StatCan
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says economic growth was flat in November as declines in the manufacturing sector weighed on real gross domestic product in the month. The agency says a global semiconductor shortage led to supply bottlenecks in automotive production, which sent durable-goods manufacturing to its lowest monthly levels since 2011, outside the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!U.S. faceoff with Cuba could put Canada ‘in a vise grip’: former ambassador
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
OTTAWA — As Canada warns travellers of food and electricity shortages in Cuba, experts say any move by the U.S. to overthrow the island’s communist leadership would put Canada in a bind much worse than the aftermath of the American armed intervention in Venezuela. Two former ambassadors say they’re confident Global Affairs Canada is preparing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Poilievre to speak in Calgary, Trump threatens tariffs, Oilers win
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Conservatives converge on downtown Calgary, eager to hear from party leader Poilievre Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to address his party faithful this evening in Calgary, in a speech that many anticipate will set the tone for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CFIA official tells of threats and harassment that dogged ostrich cull operation
By Canadian Press on January 30th, 2026
As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a senior official with the agency. They peaked with the “extreme” example of a CFIA worker and their family facing “in-person threats” of ... Read More »
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