44 m. ago Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week

With US oil drilling in the doldrums, how do oilservice companies plan to ride out the slowdown? The answer to that question will be top of mind when leading drillers report earnings this week. The decline in oil demand also has refineries shutting down while the clock ticks on clean energy deployments in the US. And ethanol has taken center stage in the global trade war.

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3 h. ago Court rules Mississippi’s social media age verification law can go into effect

A Mississippi law that requires social media users to verify their ages can go into effect, a federal court has ruled. A tech industry group has pledged to continue challenging the law, arguing it infringes on users’ rights to privacy and free expression. A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals overruled […]

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4 h. ago Request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts likely to disappoint, ex

NEW YORK (AP) — A Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public’s appetite for new revelations about the financier’s crimes, former federal prosecutors say. Attorney Sarah Krissoff, an assistant U.S. […]

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5 h. ago Federal minister Olszewski to visit Jasper this week to discuss wildfire recovery

Eleanor Olszewski to meet with local government and business leaders; said she will comment on Jasper report on wildfire in the coming days

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22 h. ago B.C., Saskatchewan among provinces where contaminated salami was sold

Health officials are adding Saskatchewan and British Columbia to the list of provinces where salami and cacciatore products connected to a salmonella outbreak were distributed. The Public Health Agency of Canada says 87 people have now gotten sick after eating contaminated lunch meat, with nine of those people landing in the hospital. The federal health […]

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25 h. ago Federal cuts are freezing new grads out of the public service

Budget cuts haven’t officially started but for recent graduates a hiring slowdown is already here.

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28 h. ago Trump s'attaque à l'audiovisuel public, les radios et télés locales en danger

Donald Trump a fait voter la suppression de fonds fédéraux à l'audiovisuel public, qu'il accuse de dérive progressiste.

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31 h. ago XRP Whales Shift Funds Into VNBTC Cloud Mining Platform For Stable Passive Income

LONDON, July 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Over the past two weeks, something unusual has been happening beneath the surface of the crypto markets: large XRP holders – often referred to as “whales” – have started moving vast amounts of their tokens into the cloud mining platform. According to internal data from VNBTC, the platform […]

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34 h. ago Travailleurs étrangers temporaires: des entreprises poursuivent Ottawa pour 300M$

Des entreprises en furie contre les restrictions d’Ottawa au sujet des travailleurs étrangers temporaires poursuivent le fédéral pour près de 300M$.

Economics

43 h. ago Cogeco, Eastlink seek to appeal CRTC decision on wholesale rules

Two telecommunications companies are seeking to appeal a recent CRTC decision that reaffirmed the ability of Canada’s Big Three internet companies to resell internet over rivals’ networks. In a legal challenge filed at the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday, Cogeco Inc. and Halifax-based Eastlink said the regulator’s June decision should be quashed. They alleged […]

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46 h. ago Jasper points to ‘mischaracterization’ of wildfire report after Alberta premier calls for apology

OTTAWA — The top administrator in Jasper, Alta., downplayed claims Friday that a report his town commissioned into last summer’s devastating wildfire was about blaming the province for making things worse, after the premier called on the town to apologize. Jasper Chief Administrative Officer Bill Given told the National Post that the initial media coverage […]

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46 h. ago Report: Whitecaps’ sale of Pedro Vite to Mexican club is biggest deal for team since Alphonso Davies

Whitecaps sporting director Axel Schuster pledging to use transfer fee to "strengthen our roster, for both immediate impact and long-term success"

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48 h. ago Threats of political violence rose rapidly through the Trudeau years, new data shows

Two-thirds of death threats were aimed at Justin Trudeau -- but Catherine McKenna, Chrystia Freeland and Steven Guilbeault also received multiple death threats from 2019 to 2024.

Politics

49 h. ago Cogeco, Eastlink seek to appeal CRTC decision on wholesale fibre rules

Two telecommunications companies are seeking to appeal a recent CRTC decision that reaffirmed the ability of Canada’s Big Three internet companies to resell fibre internet over rivals’ networks. In a legal challenge filed at the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday, Cogeco Inc. and Halifax-based Eastlink said the regulator’s June decision should be quashed. They […]

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49 h. ago Federal officials say wildfire forecast shows high risk of more fires in August

OTTAWA — The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada and there is a high risk that more fires will break out in August, federal officials said on Friday. More than 5.5 million hectares of land have burned so far this year, more than double the 10-year average for […]

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49 h. ago Rogers Announces Pricing of Cash Tender Offers for Eight Series of U.S. Dollar Debt Securities

TORONTO, July 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rogers Communications Inc. (“Rogers” or the “Company”) (TSX: RCI.A and RCI.B; NYSE: RCI) today announced the pricing terms of its previously announced separate offers (the “Offers”) to purchase for cash any and all of the outstanding notes of each series listed in the table below (collectively, the “Notes”), up […]

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49 h. ago Un policier de la SQ coupable au criminel pour des fautes commises dans le cadre d’enquêtes policières

Ghislain Dorion a écopé d’une peine de neuf mois dans la collectivité pour les manquements qu’il a reconnus dans cinq dossiers d’enquête.

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50 h. ago Many Edmontonians do not feel safe after dark, around LRT, shows police survey data

'Research participants across all platforms indicate they believe crime rates are increasing and personal safety is decreasing.'

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50 h. ago Here's the lowest salary you need to afford a home in Toronto right now

Toronto's housing market may still be taking a prolonged (and for many, extremely stressful) pause, but a lack of momentum doesn't mean that real estate in and around the city is getting any more affordable.Local firms like Ratehub.ca have been regularly reporting on average home prices in the region and the income needed to cover them each month, and June's data still spells out what most locals have come to accept over the years: that hell may indeed freeze over before owning a home is as attainable here as in comparable cities around the world.Based on Ratehub's latest data, released Friday, a slight increase in lending rates month-over-month has worsened affordability in almost all of Canada's major markets, compounded by the fact that prices are slowly starting to rise again as would-be buyers give up waiting on the sidelines for costs to potentially improve.As the company explains, "upward pressure has been steadily buildi...

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51 h. ago 2025 wildfire season one of the worst on record, and it’s not over yet: government

The Government of Canada has released a report outlining the technical details about this year's wildfire season, include the damage done, and projections through September.

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