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The Prime Minister has bet more than $2bn on artificial intelligence and 250,000 new jobs.
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Tiff Macklem has cut rates twice this year and signalled a third.
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The Prime Minister has bet more than $2bn on artificial intelligence and 250,000 new jobs. But a strategy with no duty to retrain — or even to warn — is straining the limits of his pro-worker branding.

AI agents now do the comparing for shoppers. Canadian retailers who treat product data as a technical afterthought will pay for it in sales they never knew they lost.

Tiff Macklem has cut rates twice this year and signalled a third. But Ottawa's borrowing programme, a stubborn loonie, and a housing market that refuses to clear are leaving the central bank with very little ammunition for the recession nobody is yet calling.

From red-eye flights between Mexico City and Toronto to the Voyageurs' singing section at BC Place, a generation of Canadian soccer obsessives is treating 2026 like a once-in-a-lifetime audition for the country.

Various parts of Canada are currently trapped in a heat dome that is spiking seasonal temperatures above average that is set to last throughout the week.

Early Monday morning, Environment Canada issued heat warnings for much of southwestern Ontario as well as large portions of the east, stretching all the way up to the north.

Environment Canada on Monday issued heat alerts for parts of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Here's how you can keep your pets cool.

According to Environment Canada, there are currently yellow alerts for heat classified under every Canadian province and territory except Quebec and B.C.

Emergency crews have been called in to help evacuate campers from several campgrounds in the mountains, west of Calgary, after several days of heavy rain caused localized flooding.

Stephen Eustáquio grew up and attended school for a few years in Leamington, Ont., and now the community is celebrating the hometown hero.

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