Predictions that Toronto's housing market would see a triumphant return of the enthusiasm and heat it's historically known for have fallen flat thus far, with sales continuing to dwindle far below hopes and expectations, and new listings continuing to pour onto the market.Nearly 20,000 homes are now up for sale within the GTA, per the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB)'s numbers for January, marking a worrying 48.6 per cent uptick in new listings and 70.2 per cent increase in active listings compared to this time last year.The number of sales transactions, meanwhile, has fallen 7.9 per cent over the same time frame, disheartening realtors and sellers who were expecting a bounceback after an abysmal 2024.RBC economists really put these numbers into perspective in a new special housing report that this month compared how the real estate scenes in major cities across Canada are faring.One graph shows Toronto to have the third-biggest year-over...

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Le défenseur était sur une courte liste de remplaçants du Canada, mais l’appel qu’il attendait n’est jamais venu.

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WASHINGTON — Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston are reaching out to state governors in Washington, D.C. as the deadline to avert U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs inches closer. The premiers are to attend the National Governors Association winter meeting today, where Trump and key members of his team are set […]

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TSX: FUD, FSL & ETP Cboe CA: FJFB & SDVD TORONTO, Feb. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FT Portfolios Canada Co. (“First Trust Canada”) is pleased to announce cash distributions for its Exchange Traded Funds (“First Trust ETFs”) listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Cboe Canada for the month ending February 28, 2025 The […]

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Trying to stick to a grocery list of items made in Canada? A new online platform makes it easy for shoppers to support Canadian businesses.Scanuck.ca is a platform that allows users to check where a product is made, and it's quite easy to use: using your phone, go to the website, allow access to your camera, and scan the item's bar code.Once scanned, the site will provide details of the product's country of origin.CVO of tech company KP9 Wil McReynolds said he developed Scanuck.ca in February. The Owen Sound, Ont. resident recalled how his wife suggested a scanner similar to one he created in 2016 to help users identify gluten-free products.And Scanuck.ca certainly fulfills a need as more Canadians boycott U.S.-made products amid a tariff war: the website has had 48,000 scans since it launched."This was a passion project that went viral," said McReynolds.McReynolds said the response has been "overwhelmingly positive" and plans to roll out more features and i...

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Cette décision vise à renforcer la sécurité aux frontières, en réponse aux critiques américaines.

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'We want to be clear given this designation that we don’t negotiate our sovereignty,' Claudia Sheinbaum said after the U.S. classified Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.

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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum moved to ban foreign governments and entities from intervening in her nation’s territory after the US designated eight Latin American cartels and gangs as terrorist organizations.

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Seven transnational criminal organizations, including drug cartels, were designated as foreign terrorist organizations and include five groups out of Mexico.

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Canada is broadening its power to clamp down on cartels after the Trump administration used tariff threats to push for stronger curbs of the cross-border illegal drug trade.

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Le gouvernement fédéral place sept cartels mexicains de la drogue sur la liste des organisation terroristes, comme le feront les États-Unis.

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The list of potential American tariffs that could affect Canada grew Wednesday night when U.S. President Donald Trump dropped the idea of a 25% levy on lumber and forest products. Speaking to the media onboard Air Force One, Trump said his administration was eyeing some time around April for the latest announced duty. Earlier this […]

Economics

International headlines about Toronto's car theft issue and rising rates of crime in general may give the impression that the city, being Canada's biggest, is the country's hotspot for serious offences.But, at least when it comes to violent crime, a new study actually puts Toronto quite far down the list of the worst places in Canada, coming behind 23 other cities and also the national average for select metropolitan areas.The study, from the Fraser Institute, compared crime trends across cities and provinces, but also in Canada versus the U.S. It analyzed locales with 100,000 or more people, looking mostly at StatCan data from between 2019 and 2022 and using the metric of average incidents per 100,000 residents annually.The findings were somewhat surprising.Out of the Great White North's five most major cities, Calgary had the worst stats, coming in 11th out of 36 places ranked. Vancouver was somewhat better, in 16th when ...

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