In the past few weeks, news on the Canadian economic front has tilted negative overall.
Statistics Canada came out with a February jobs report that showed employment declined by a net 84,000, which came on top of a loss of 25,000 jobs in January. The cumulative decline makes it the worst start to a year employment-wise since 2009.
GDP figures released late last month showed that Canada’s economy contracted in the final quarter of 2025, capping the weakest year for growth since the pandemic.
Dual citizens weigh Trump, taxes in decision to renounce U.S. citizenship
Ella Heyder is bracing for a breakup, even though she already moved out decades ago.
She’s contemplating cutting ties altogether with her home country, the United States of America, and President Donald Trump.
“I’m quite disturbed by what’s happening in the U.S. under Trump’s regime. It’s a fascist, imperialist regime,” Heyder said as she and others waved signs outside the American Embassy in Ottawa during what has become a twice-weekly protest against the current U.S. administration.
American military aircraft have been using Canadian airspace to refuel on their way to the Middle East, backed by a long-standing NORAD agreement that does not require the U.S. to ask permission from Canada to do so.
On March 12, between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. ET, two KC-135T Stratotankers – large American refuelling aircraft – were observed overhead by residents of Moose Factory, Ont., along with several other aircraft, the make and model of which could not be identified from images captured by a resident of the town.
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A controversial secularism law in Quebec is heading to Canada’s Supreme Court – but the outcome will impact much more than religious expression in Canada, legal experts say.
The case has the potential to test national unity and the balance between courts and elected officials.
“This case is probably going to be the most important constitutional case in a generation,” said Christine Van Geyn, executive director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.
In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.
“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.
“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”
Canadians’ support for medical assistance in dying (MAID) remains robust even when mental illness is the sole underlying condition, and it has strengthened over time rather than faded.
According to research conducted by Environics Research for Dying With Dignity Canada (DWDC), 80 percent of Canadians support eligibility for MAID where mental illness is the sole underlying medical condition, a level consistent with previous years.
Is that only because Whites are the overwhelming majority of MAiD patients?
A total of 15,927 people who received MAID responded to the question on racial, ethnic or cultural identity. The vast majority (95.6%) identified as Caucasian (White). The second most commonly reported racial, ethnic or cultural identity was East Asian (1.6%). These percentages are close to those reported for 2023 (95.8% Caucasian; 1.8% East Asian).
Kraft Heinz has just committed another $250 million to its Montreal facility – one of the largest food manufacturing plants in North America.
In today’s uncertain environment for consumer packaged goods, this is not just another capital announcement, it’s a signal.
And frankly, an unexpected one.
Since 2019, a secularism law in Quebec has barred some public sector workers, like judges, police officers and teachers, from wearing religious attire at work. Now, the country’s highest court is preparing to consider its future.
Lisa Robicheau describes her life as “stuck between a rock and a hard place”.
The 41-year-old single mother of two, who wears a hijab, works in Montreal’s English-language school system as a contract support worker for students with disabilities – a job she loves and where she is exempt from the current law.
According to the US government, climate change from man-made greenhouse gases is fake news. Lee Zeldin, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, brands it as nothing but “climate change religion,” while President Trump calls it a hoax and “perhaps the biggest scam in history.” The climate-change debate is dead and over — at least under one roof.
On this track, the US government is now shredding a tall stack of greenhouse-gas regulations. It’s being called the “single largest regulatory action in US history.”
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Twenty years ago this month, the Supreme Court of Canada cracked open a new fault line between Quebec and rest of the country, one that would put the French-speaking province on a trajectory diametrically at odds with the multicultural values Canada had come to embody and disrupt Quebec politics for years to come.
In quashing a Quebec Court of Appeal decision that had prohibited a Sikh boy from wearing a kirpan, or ceremonial dagger, at school, the country’s top court came down squarely on the side of religious freedom as guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and against Quebec’s vision of la laïcité, then an emerging doctrine of separation of church and state in a province that had gone to great pains since the Quiet Revolution to replace its dominant Catholic institutions with unsparingly secular ones.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been given the greatest gifts one can have in politics: time and power. With the three consecutive majority governments that his Progressive Conservatives have won, he’s had the ability to pursue radical policy changes and actually begin to see the fruits of those changes. He’s been able to conceive of, initiate and develop major infrastructure projects. And he can, if he wishes, fundamentally overhaul the way a province structures its basic funding operations, in service to greater efficiency and results.
Police in Richmond are investigating a spike in the theft of meats from grocery stores, a trend that’s also happening in other cities as the price of meat has soared.
Richmond RCMP say they’ve received 39 reports of meat theft between December 2025 and March.
The Globe and Mail sparked a debate when it reported that Canada’s GDP per capita has fallen behind Alabama’s. The comparison rattled Canadians and triggered a wave of criticism about the validity of using GDP per capita as a measure of national prosperity.
Critics argue that GDP is a flawed metric, pointing to legitimate measurement challenges. But these measurement issues affect every country. The question is not whether GDP per capita is perfect but whether Canada’s trend relative to our peers signals deeper problems.
The evidence suggests it does.
Two Ontario grocery stores owned by Loblaw have been fined for falsely portraying imported food as Canadian.
This comes as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) probes major grocery chains accused of misleading consumers by mislabeling items as Canadian and using maple-leaf imagery in signage.
The cost of doing business is all.
Welcome to this edition of Ridiculous Things the Liberals Said, where the war in Iran is the reason Canadians are unable to find work and can’t afford to buy a house.
First up is Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.
