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The Bank of Canada is holding its policy rate at 2.25 per cent and says that it expects the Canadian economy to improve, despite flatlined growth over the past 18 months. But there are big caveats. Although the economy is showing signs of improvement and inflation is easing, the BOC’s new monetary policy report released today warns that uncertainty driven...
Choosing the winning bid for Canada’s next generation submarine fleet is coming down to the wire. Analysts say the race between the two contenders, German-Norwegian consortium ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and South Korea’s Hanwha, is too close to call. Prime Minister Mark Carney has previously said that a decision would be made before the end of June, but sources tell...
Record participation in a team-Canada trade mission to Japan has resulted in more than $1 billion in commercial investments signed between Canadian and Japanese companies. On Thursday, International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu beamed as he watched executives from more than a dozen companies participate in signing ceremonies. Sidhu said the historic trade mission has delivered “landmark results” resulting in over...
International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu says more relief from Beijing’s tariffs that remain on Canadian canola, peas and seafood will be on the negotiating table when he meets with his Chinese counterpart in the fall. The meeting will likely take place in November in Shenzhen, GD. the site of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) hosted by China. Earlier...
The JS Natori, a newly commissioned warship, embodies the future of Japan’s Self-Defence Force. Built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the frigate has a vertical-launch missile system and can sail in stealth mode. Japan has already sold a fleet of the frigates to Australia and it’s looking for more buyers. Future versions of the ship could also be a potential platform...
Industry Minister Melanie Joly said she has made it clear to four Chinese electric vehicle makers that getting more access to the Canadian market will require them to “build where you sell.” But as she courts Chinese EV manufacturers to build another lifeline for the domestic auto industry as it buckles under the uncertainty of the CUSMA review, Japanese auto...
A record-setting number of Canadian executives are in Tokyo this week to participate in what has become the largest Team Canada trade mission in the Indo-Pacific region. Nearly 300 people representing 175 Canadian companies will gather at the Sheraton Miyako hotel in downtown Tokyo to network with Japanese executives. The Canadians have one goal in mind: to forge partnerships in...
The secret weapon in South Korea’s bid to win the lucrative submarine contract is code named “Project Beaver.” Facing market conditions that blocked it from bringing an electric vehicle plant to Canada, the South Koreans drafted a plan to manufacture hydrogen long-haul freight trucks and build dozens of charging stations in Canada, beginning in 2030. The proposal was submitted as...
Security experts and human rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the renewal of a co-operation agreement between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and China’s Ministry of Public Security as troubling details surface at a foreign interference trial. Court documents filed at the trial of alleged double agent William Majcher reveals that at least 25 Canadian residents were targeted by...
Hanwha’s submarine bid has within a few short months become a potential lifeline for Canada’s auto industry. The South Korean corporation is partnering with the Auto Parts Manufacturers Association (APMA) to build military armoured vehicles in Canada. It’s a strategy that could help it win a lucrative contract and keep the tariff-hit auto sector from sinking further. The vehicles would...
Under pressure to increase economic benefits to Canadians, South Korea’s Hanwha is committing to manufacturing armoured battle vehicles in Canada if it’s awarded the lucrative contract to build the Royal Canadian Navy’s next fleet of submarines. CTV News has learned that Hanwha has signed a partnership agreement with members of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association (APMA) build its K9 vehicles...
The office of the federal ethics commissioner says Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne’s personal relationship with a senior manager at the Crown corporation responsible for building high-speed rail does not constitute a conflict of interest. In an email seen by CTV News, an adviser from the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner (OCIEC) stated that “there is no...
The Liberal government’s voluntary gun buyback program for soon to be outlawed weapons will likely miss its mark. More than 2,500 models of assault-style weapons will be banned in October, but the deadline to apply for compensation expired on March 31. Not including administrative costs, the federal government has set aside $248.6 million to compensate gun owners. The amount allows...
After more than a decade of plodding progress, Canada has officially hit the NATO spending target of two per cent of GDP set during the Wales Summit of 2014. According to data in the NATO Secretary-General’s annual report released this morning, Canada spent more than $60 billion on defence in 2025 – an amount that adds up to two per...
Canada’s artificial intelligence minister says he will demand more information about what changes OpenAI is making to its safety protocols on Wednesday, when he meets with the company’s CEO, Sam Altman. Evan Solomon is meeting with Altman after it was revealed last week that the Tumbler Ridge shooter — who killed eight people earlier this month in one of the...
Both Germany’s TKMS and South Korea’s Hanwha submitted their final bids to win a lucrative contract to build Canada’s next generation of submarines ahead of the March 2 deadline. CTV News has learned how the proposals will be evaluated and details about what the bids will contain. Tens of billions of dollars in economic incentives are attached to the bids...
On a packed bullet train heading towards Seoul, the face of Stephen Fuhr, Canada’s secretary of state for defence procurement, suddenly appeared on monitors in each of the 18 train cars. In a four-minute news story, Fuhr was shown touring Hanwha’s shipyard in Geoje, along with more than 20 Canadian CEOs along for a trade mission. Over two days, the...
Canada’s reluctance to lift more anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel may have blocked Prime Minister Mark Carney from negotiating a deal on canola tariffs beyond the end of 2026 during last week’s trip to China, according to his agriculture minister. As part of a new deal inked during Carney’s visit, Beijing secured a five-year agreement which gives China access to...
The weaponization of trade to “strengthen American power and pre-eminence” is entrenched in the new U.S. National Security Strategy recently released by the White House. In the prologue, U.S. President Donald Trump writes that the U.S. “will continue to develop every dimension of our national strength, and we will make America safer, richer, freer, greater and more powerful than ever...
At a time when Canada is defending itself in a trade war with the U.S., a new report casts doubt on whether the nation’s immigration policy is able to retain the global talent required to bolster the economy on the home front. Highly educated and skilled immigrants are the most likely to leave Canada within five years of landing, according...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has now climbed into two submarines on two continents - one on a production line in Germany, the other in the water in South Korea - yet the 2025 federal budget, which allocated more than $80 billion toward defence, made no mention of funding towards the much-needed vessels. The Royal Canadian Navy is in the market...
In what will be a high stakes meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping will sit down across from each other to recalibrate a relationship between their countries at a time when the United States has pushed Canada to the sidelines in trade negotiations. The meeting will take place on the margins of the summit...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the U.S. “had been making progress” until President Donald Trump suddenly ended negotiations with Canada over Ontario’s anti-tariff ad. “There were a series of very detailed, very specific, very comprehensive discussions ... up until the point of those ads running,” Carney said Monday while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the...
Just days before Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to attend two major economic summits in Asia, South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean is shoring up its roster of Canadian partners in a strategic move to win a lucrative contract to replace Canada’s aging submarines. The federal government needs to replace its four Victoria-class submarines and plans to procure up to 1...
CTV News has learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney and a group of his ministers will make a broad series of “sector-based” announcements Friday, aimed at increasing Canada’s competitiveness, supporting sectors impacted most by tariffs and spurring domestic industry. Multiple government and industry sources tell CTV News changes to some policies from Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister are being...
The country’s top naval officer says “there is a path” for the federal government to decide which company will replace Canada’s aging submarine fleet by the end of the year. Canada’s four submarines are nearly 40 years old and will become obsolete in about a decade. The Victoria-class submarines are no longer being made, and it’s difficult for the military...
As wildfires rage across much of the Atlantic provinces, frustrations are increasing over government decisions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to ban people from the tinder dry forests on crown land. The ban prevents people from enjoying a stroll through the woods, camping, fishing or driving their ATVs on trails, as part of the effort to prevent human activity...
Canada’s ambitious strategy to turn to the European Union to wean itself off American dependency for military equipment could be difficult to deliver and result in political fallout, warns former defence and security officials in a new report. After assessing the political and fiscal risks of the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney in Brussels...
To get the federal government’s procurement process on the fast track and unclog its multiple layers of red tape, the independent Office of the Procurement Ombud (OPO) is recommending an “overhaul” of the system. “We can no longer sustain Band-Aid solutions. We have to address the foundational issue that our system is too complex and it’s not working for all...
Mark Carney’s ability to balance Canada’s economic agenda while promoting its democratic values will be tested at the upcoming G7 summit after he expanded the invitation list to nations implicated in international murders. The prime minister ignored questions from reporters about why he was inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Kananaskis, Alta....
After the Conservatives lost a fourth straight election, Pierre Poilievre is tasked with convincing supporters that he is still the right person to lead the party to victory in the next election, despite losing his own seat. Poilievre’s path to returning to the House of Commons requires replacing an elected member of Parliament in a yet-to-be-called byelection in rural Alberta...
With just four days left before voters head to the polls, Pierre Poilievre made his first campaign visit to Saskatchewan in a province wrapped in Conservative blue. On Thursday evening Poilievre basked in the applause of hundreds of supporters who crowded into a warehouse in Saskatoon to hear him give his stump speech. Poilievre opened with new material after Liberal...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has released his party’s costed platform, which Poilievre says includes an estimated $75 billion in tax cuts and $35 billion in new programs over the next four years. Poilievre claims that the Conservative platform will also save Canadians more than $56 billion between 2025-2029. Putting in place their programs will also require the Conservative government to...
Two hours after sunrise on Easter Sunday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made a campaign stop at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., to criticize the price tag of the Liberals’ election platform, which would cost Canadian taxpayers $130 billion in spending. “Mark Carney is worse than Justin Trudeau,” said Poilievre, standing in the produce aisle of a Fruiticana store to...
The two sisters, both silver haired and in their sixties, arrived at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Sault Ste. Marie later than they wanted. The line had already snaked around the corner of The Machine Shop – an event venue housed in a historic paper mill. Among the crowd, parents with toddlers bundled in toques, and burly steelworkers dressed...
As Mark Carney enters week three of his campaign to be prime minister, the festering issues of foreign interference and corporate tax havens have exposed vulnerabilities in the Liberal Party and its leader, as he swings through British Columbia. Last Sunday, Carney stepped off his newly branded Liberal plane with his wife, Diana Fox Carney, at his side. She would...
As Canadian officials convene in Washington, D.C., to prove progress is being made at the border ahead of next week’s tariff deadline, U.S. President Donald Trump says he plans to impose sweeping 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico on March 4, claiming “drugs are still pouring into our country.” “We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm...
At the America’s biggest annual Republican gathering, Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to Donald Trump, is hosting his War Room talk show from the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Convention. Dozens of people surrounded his CPAC set to watch his broadcast and to snap selfies with the man who helped first install Trump in the Oval Office in 2016...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s launch of new steel and aluminum tariffs targets Canada disproportionately and puts the country’s premiers on their back heels as they arrive in Washington, D.C. to defend against a widening trade war. Trump’s executive order will take effect on March 4, and imposes 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium on all countries. Canada is...
Canada’s latest weapon in fending off a potential trade war with the United States is a three-minute border security video delivered in an act of quiet diplomacy.
After half a decade of testing and an investment of nearly $300 million, the federal government is still years away from fully implementing its next-generation pay and human resource cloud platform to replace the problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system. Moving more than 360,000 federal workers onto a cloud-based system will require hiring more contractors and re-opening union agreements to streamline pay...
The federal government risks jeopardizing the economy unless it meets its NATO military alliance spending obligations within the next five years, says the Business Council of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed to reaching the two per cent target by 2032. But the business council, which represents the CEOs of Canada’s largest companies, wants to reach it by 2030.
When Donald Trump vowed to clamp down on immigration as part of his campaign for president of the United States, the RCMP was listening closely. Canada's federal police force has been preparing for months on a contingency plan for a potential massive influx of migrants across the border following Trump's promise of "mass deportations" of millions of undocumented immigrants(opens in...
Canada needs to double its annual military spending in order to meet its NATO requirements, new Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) projections show. After facing months of pressure from allies, the prime minister announced at the NATO Summit that Canada will meet its commitment of two per cent of its GDP by 2032.
In the last hours of his first visit to Laos, the prime minister watched two fishermen cast bamboo nets into the muddy waters of the Mekong River. They were trying to catch tiny fish, each the length of a man's index finger, to later use as bait for something much more substantial. The image of Justin Trudeau in rolled sleeves...
Unless policies or technologies change, the cost of electric vehicles (EVs) needs to decrease by 31 per cent if Canada to wants to reach its sales target of 60 per cent EVs by 2030, according to a new report released Thursday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.
Premiers are urging the federal government to move up its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence spending by 2032. The calls are happening at Canada's Premiers summit in Halifax, where the future of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship has been discussed amid the looming U.S. presidential election in November.
Canada says it expects to reach its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence by 2032. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. For over a year, Canada has faced increasing pressure and criticism from alliance members to boost defence spending.
After facing months of pressure, senior government sources tell CTV News that Canada will unveil its plan on Thursday on how to reach its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of its GDP on defence. Canada is currently the only member of the alliance without a timeline to reach that target. According to NATO's latest figures, Canada is on...
Since arriving in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has faced a barrage of criticism about his government’s lack of a plan to meet the NATO pledge of spending two per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Washington, D.C. to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but it’s a domestic focus on trade that is dominating his schedule on the first day of his visit. The NATO summit officially begins on Tuesday. Before the opening NATO event tomorrow, Trudeau will have already participated in...
More than a million people are expected to visit the Calgary Stampede making it an ideal event for political photo-ops. But this year, only Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will be saddling up for the event, while both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will stay away. Political watchers say the absence of Trudeau and Singh are calculated...
Growing political discontent in a Liberal stronghold could lead to a Conservative breakthrough in an Ontario byelection that may put Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership to the test. On Monday, voters in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul's will head to the polls to elect a new member of Parliament. The federal seat was previously held by Carolyn Bennett before she...
The Canada Border Services Agency is scrambling to find space to hold high-risk detainees that are set to be transferred from provincial jails in June. There are delays in retrofitting CBSA detention centres and training staff which may force the agency to release foreign nationals deemed a flight risk or a threat to public safety, or both.
Former Mountie William Majcher has made a career out of deception and dancing on the edge of danger. As a young officer, he nearly died after being jumped from behind and smashed repeatedly in the head with a steel bar. After transitioning into undercover work, Majcher was planted in the same cell as an Air India terror suspect. He infiltrated...
The trial of Cameron Ortis, a former senior RCMP intelligence official accused of passing on top-secret national security data, is set to begin on Tuesday.