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U.S. reshuffles Canadian tariff list as Ottawa tells diplomats to avoid midterm candidates
Plywood and some paper products come off the 50% Section 338 list Oct. 30, while valves, carpets and waste products are added. Global Affairs Canada has told its diplomats to keep away…
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Nearly half of Parks Canada staff in N.W.T. and Yukon told jobs at risk
Parks Canada notices reached 67 of 147 workers in the Northwest Territories and 58 of 137 in Yukon. Fort Smith’s mayor says the cuts reach the town’s rinks and bake sales.
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B.C. votes in snap election as hand count could slow results
British Columbians vote Saturday in a snap election Premier David Eby framed around the U.S. trade fight. Elections BC is counting by hand, and mail-in ballots won’t be tallied until Nov. 6…
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Ottawa and Ontario pay Windsor, Essex County and Sudbury to slash development charges as Niagara waits
Canada and Ontario committed up to $235.5 million to Windsor, Tecumseh, Essex County and Greater Sudbury in exchange for cutting or eliminating development charges on new homes. Niagara Region’s applications are still…
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Carney opens a ‘strategic partnership’ with Türkiye, Canada’s latest trade bet beyond the United States
Prime Minister Mark Carney became the first Canadian prime minister to make a bilateral visit to Türkiye, launching free trade talks and defence-industry cooperation with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Analysis: Canada tells the Haldimand court it didn’t inherit the Crown’s debts to Six Nations. In the 1920s, it paid toward one anyway
Three weeks into the Six Nations of the Grand River trial, Canada and Ontario say today’s governments aren’t answerable for what the Crown did with the Haldimand Tract. Canada’s own court filings…
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Carney and Ford put $8.7 billion behind Ontario steel and autos as the U.S. Embassy accuses Canadians of meddling in the midterms
Ottawa and Ontario unveiled an $8.7 billion plan to tariff-proof steel mills, auto plants and northern mines, and froze vehicle emissions rules. Hours later, the U.S. Embassy published a list accusing Canadian…
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Ottawa’s watchdog prices the trade war: a smaller economy, bigger deficits and a budget target propped up by tariffs on U.S. goods
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office says the tariffs traded since 2025 will leave the economy 1.4% smaller and could cost up to 185,000 jobs, while Ottawa’s near-balanced budget target leans on counter-tariffs paid…
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Alberta votes to stay in Canada, CBC projects, after a campaign Carney cast as a stand against outside pressure
Albertans voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projected, with about three in four ballots counted so far rejecting a path to a separation vote. Carney had warned that ‘some outside our…
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Ontario will buy 600 megawatts of New York power this winter, weeks after Ford threatened to cut the U.S. off
Ontario’s grid operator has contracted 600 MW from New York’s Alpha Generation starting Nov. 1, two months after Premier Doug Ford said cutting power exports to the U.S. was “on the table.”
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Canadians are driving back to the U.S., but not across the Peace Bridge, StatCan data show
Canadian car trips home from the U.S. rose 5.6% in September. At Fort Erie, the Canadian end of the Peace Bridge, they fell 2.1% and remain 35% below 2024, a Buffalo Chronicle…
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Waymo brings robotaxi testing to Toronto, setting up a winter test Buffalo will watch
Waymo says its self-driving cars will begin mapping Toronto streets within days, with driverless rides targeted for 2028. A Queen’s University expert warns that snow can blind the sensors.
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Lisa LaFlamme wants to manage Wilson-Raybould’s campaign for Prime Minister
Sources are telling The Chronicle that Lisa LaFlamme is interested in serving as the national campaign manager of former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould‘s campaign for Prime Minister, which is widely expected next year. LeFlamme…
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Trudeau may gift 24 Sussex to Assembly of First Nations, as a symbolic act of reconciliation
Justin Trudeau is considering a plan that would gift 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, the official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister, to the Assembly of First Nations, with the intention that…
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Assembly of First Nations’ Chief Archibald wants federal budget to include economic reconciliation measures
(Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief RoseAnne Archibald says the 2022 federal budget tabled today in Ottawa falls short in addressing the urgent and long-term needs identified by…
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Professor’s identity fraud reveals systemic victimization of indigenous people in academia
The identity claims of a Quebec professor continue to provoke the anger of many Indigenous people, who accuse the one who claims to be Eastern Métis of appropriation. Tensions are running high…
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Canada might be open to accepting a successor to Queen Elizabeth who is not Prince Charles
Deep in the halls of Buckingham Palace, some of Queen Elizabeth’s most tenured courtiers have been contemplating Her Majesty’s succession plans — not just for the Throne of the United Kingdom, but…
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As an act of reconciliation, Ford is open to removing obsolete dams at Six Nations’ request
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is open to removing two defunct hydro dams installed along the Grand River, at the request of environmental activists at Six Nations, sources familiar with his thinking tell…
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Source: a Conservative-Bloc Quebecois coalition government would liberate French Canada
A Toronto-based source with close ties to both Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Tool and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet tells The Chronicle that the two men are open to the possibility of a coalition…
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Bloc Quebecois leader promises to run candidates in New Brunswick ridings next election
Yves-Francois Blanchet, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois in Parliament, is making private commitments to political operatives in Montreal that could have national implications for the Canadian confederation. The Bloc, founded to…
