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The federal government announced a $400-million financial support for Algoma Steel under its large enterprise tariff relief scheme, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monday. The loan will “help Algoma Steel Inc. continue operations, transition to a business model less reliant on the United States, and limit disruption to its workforce,” …
Read More »Chinese students take Ottawa to court over study permit delays
Dozens of Chinese graduate students are accusing Ottawa of discrimination because their study permit applications have been left in limbo for months, preventing them from beginning their advanced degrees at Canadian universities. “It’s already [done] very serious damage to my life,” Yixin Cheng, a 27-year-old would-be PhD student in computer …
Read More »Ottawa upholds CRTC ruling on wholesale internet access to ‘allow for more competition’
Ottawa says it will uphold a ruling by Canada’s telecommunications regulator allowing the country’s largest internet companies to provide service to customers using fibre networks built by their rivals — as long as they do so outside their core regions. Industry Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement Wednesday evening …
Read More »Toronto Zoo to take in blind, baby moose after province approves transfer from Ottawa
The Toronto Zoo will soon become home to a blind baby moose who was rescued near Ottawa earlier this month. The two-month-old baby moose, now named Cedar, was found by an animal rescue group on a rural road in Hawkesbury, Ont. Cedar was brought to Holly’s Haven Wildlife Rescue, where …
Read More »Calm in the crease: Inside Gwyneth Philips’s ascension to the Ottawa Charge’s starting job
A few days after more than 11,000 fans of the opposing team chanted her name inside Minnesota’s Xcel Energy Center, Gwyneth Philips was alone with her thoughts in the forest. The rookie goaltender led her Ottawa Charge to the PWHL Finals against the Minnesota Frost. Ottawa came up short in …
Read More »Ottawa officer removed after army learned of antisemitic, homophobic ‘Blue Hackle Mafia’ group
The Canadian Army has suspended the commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders in Ottawa after discovering a Facebook group with “abhorrent” content. As CBC News reported earlier this month, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has been investigating the “Blue Hackle Mafia” group, which the army said was littered with “racist, misogynistic, homophobic and …
Read More »Poilievre says he lost Ottawa riding for being ‘honest’ about plan to cut public sector jobs
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says he lost his riding of Carleton in the federal election due to an “aggressive” campaign by public sector unions after he was honest about wanting to cut federal worker jobs. Poilievre had held the Ottawa riding of Carleton for two decades until the April …
Read More »Ottawa avoided a trade setback. But Trump could come for supply management next
Dreams do come true. U.S. President Donald Trump wished for Canada’s tax on U.S. tech companies to disappear on Friday, and by Sunday, it had. Mostly, there was a sense of surprise that the federal government would play such a valuable card this soon. The digital services tax (DST), which Ottawa was …
Read More »Ukraine on track to withdraw from Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree on the country’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention, which bans the production and use of anti-personnel mines, the presidential website said on Sunday. Ukraine ratified the convention in 2005. “Support the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to withdraw Ukraine …
Read More »Ottawa woman killed, police believe it could be femicide
Police are investigating the death of an Ottawa woman earlier this week as a suspected case of femicide. At around 11:30 a.m. Monday, Ottawa police were called to a home on Carousel Crescent, near Hunt Club Road, and found a woman dead inside. She has been identified as 54-year-old Tracy …
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