Liberals vow to cut GST for first-time homebuyers purchasing homes for $1M or less
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will scrap the GST for first-time homebuyers who purchase a home with a sale price at or below $1 million. Carney promised the measure during his leadership campaign and it also...
Judge calls Trump administration’s latest response on deportation flights ‘woefully insufficient’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge instructed the Trump administration on Thursday to explain why its failure to turn around flights carrying deportees to El Salvador did not violate his court order in a growing showdown between the judicial and...
Everyday tattoos got Venezuelan men ID’d as gang members and deported, lawyers say
A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that “looked cool.” Flowers. Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being...
World Happiness Report lists Canada as happiest G7 country
Canada may be the happiest member of the G7, according to the recently released World Happiness report, but it’s taken quite a tumble over the past couple of decades. The report, edited by a professor at Simon Fraser University in...
Canada pledges nearly $100M for Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are announcing nearly $100 million in humanitarian relief and governance support for Palestinians, days before a widely expected election. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, who took on the file of international development last week, is...
Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime...
Man charged with murder in Toronto stabbing last October
A man has been charged with first-degree murder in a stabbing in which the victim died two weeks after being injured last October. Toronto police officers were called to the Eglinton Avenue East and Midland Avenue area at around 2...
Motorcyclist injured in crash with vehicle in Scarborough
A motorcyclist has been injured in a crash with another vehicle Scarborough. Toronto police were called to Invergordon Avenue and McCowan Road just before 8:30 p.m. for reports of a collision. The motorcycle driver, an adult male, was taken to...
Pentagon reviews plans to cut troops handling migrants at Guantánamo by as much as half
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military officials are reviewing plans that would cut the number of U.S. troops deployed to the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba to handle detained migrants by as much as half, because there are no detainees there...
Trade war tensions fueling drop in housing sales according to CREA
With the looming threat of U.S. tariffs, Canadians are treading carefully in the real estate market. New data from the Canadian Real Estate Association reveals a potential drop in sales, indicating that both buyers and sellers are exercising extra caution...
