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In the news today: Trump on trade talks, Air Transat to cancel flights
By Canadian Press on December 8th, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Trump says ‘We’ll see’ on whether to restart trade talks with Canada U.S. President Donald Trump answered “we’ll see” when he was asked Sunday whether he’d resume the trade talks he halted with Canada earlier this year. Trump ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa’s budget bill proposes to end free postage for people who are blind
By Canadian Press on December 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals’ budget bill currently making its way through Parliament contains a small amendment to Canada Post’s legislation that could spell the end of a critical service providing accessible reading material for people who are blind. Deep in the Liberals’ Bill C-15, the budget implementation act, are clauses mentioning the repeal of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal hosts G7 ministers to talk about artificial intelligence, quantum
By Canadian Press on December 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week. The two-day event is part of a series of ministerial meetings as Canada held the presidency of the G7 nations groups this year, a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bank of Canada expected to hold key rate, move to sidelines after an uncertain 2025
By Canadian Press on December 8th, 2025
OTTAWA — Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty. The central bank’s policy rate stands at 2.25 per cent heading into its final rate decision of the year on Wednesday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump says ‘We’ll see’ on whether to restart trade talks with Canada
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump answered “we’ll see” when he was asked Sunday whether he’d resume the trade talks he halted with Canada earlier this year. Trump made several comments about the ongoing trade dispute with Canada as he spoke with reporters outside a gala for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors. He says he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Soccer official with Iranian ties says he is shocked national team won’t play in B.C.
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
VICTORIA — Babak Shabazi says he and others in B.C.’s Iranian community were “shocked” when he saw that Iran’s national soccer team won’t play in Vancouver during the next year’s World Cup, and many are worried about travelling to the United States to see their favourite team because of political tensions. Figures from the 2021 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Air Transat to start halting flights Monday after pilots issue 72-hour strike notice
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
MONTREAL — Air Transat pilots set the stage for a strike as early as Wednesday morning, issuing a 72-hour notice to the struggling company on the cusp of the busy holiday travel season. The Air Line Pilots Association said Sunday it filed the strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year ... Read More »
1 responseEager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals ‘fun’ at Putnam competition
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is more of a mathematical sporting event than an academic test. The annual exam attracts thousands of students, most ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. Thorne spent much of his career at The Canadian Press and later worked as a freelance writer, photographer and communications consultant before joining Legion Magazine. He toiled for CP ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Transat pilots issue 72-hour strike notice, causing some flight suspensions by Monday
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
MONTREAL — The union representing 750 Air Transat pilots says they plan to go on strike Wednesday morning unless progress is made at the bargaining table. The Air Line Pilots Association says it has filed a 72-hour strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year of negotiations with travel company Transat ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.’s northwest
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
British Columbia’s logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province’s northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harvesting has been approved. The note, obtained by The Canadian Press and written by a BC Timber Sales manager in the Babine region, acknowledged the ... Read More »
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