Author: The Canadian Post

The buy Canadian movement that swept grocery stores in 2025 has waned as shoppers return to the cheapest option, with patriotic purchasing down to 46 per cent in December from a 65 per cent April peak, Ipsos says. But retail experts predict it will surge again as the CUSMA review heats up. Price is king again About a year since a fresh wave of patriotism set in at the grocery store, many shoppers no longer check labels so intently for Canadian ties. Experts say the fervour drained away as shoppers grew fatigued by trade rhetoric, many tariffs — including some…

Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump on January 22, 2026, saying Canada “thrives because we are Canadian” after Trump claimed Canada lives because of the United States. Hours later, Trump withdrew Canada’s invitation to join his Board of Peace, capping a public clash sparked by Carney’s Davos speech. A Davos speech that drew a standing ovation Carney set the confrontation in motion on Tuesday, January 20, with an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that earned a rare standing ovation from world leaders and business executives. Without naming the United States or…

At least 28 people from Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario have tested positive for cryptosporidium, a parasite that causes gastrointestinal illness, officials confirmed on Jan. 22, 2026, as the community’s water-system failure and evacuation stretched into a third week. Two of them also tested positive for a second parasite, dientamoeba fragilis. Illness spreads amid the evacuation Officials in the fly-in community on the western shore of James Bay said testing showed 28 people have cryptosporidium and two also have dientamoeba fragilis. The exact cause of the infections is under investigation, but both parasites have been linked to contaminated water…

China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, urged Ottawa on Jan. 22, 2026, to move quickly to implement the agreements signed during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing, saying both sides have 10 months — until the November APEC summit — to turn the leaders’ consensus into concrete results. ‘Lose no time’ In his first interview with The Canadian Press since Carney’s Beijing visit, Wang said the priority now is follow-through. “As long as both China and Canada have adequate sincerity, both sides will be able to translate the important outcomes into reality,” he said through his interpreter. “The most…

Prime Minister Mark Carney gathered his cabinet in Quebec City on Jan. 22, 2026, for two days of meetings on the economy, affordability and security, one day after returning from a nine-day overseas trip and four days before Parliament resumes, with U.S. tariffs, Greenland and the coming CUSMA review expected to dominate discussion. A retreat in the shadow of Trump The Quebec City retreat began the day after Carney’s return from a nine-day trip to drum up investment in China, Qatar and Switzerland. It also came on the heels of his World Economic Forum speech in Davos, where he urged…

A B.C. Supreme Court judge rejected the Crown’s bid to have Christopher Prokopchuk declared a dangerous offender and jailed indefinitely for a 2021 attempted robbery in Surrey. Justice Barbara Norrell instead designated him a long-term offender, imposing 5.5 years less time served, plus a 10-year supervision order. The Crown’s case for an indefinite sentence Crown lawyers argued that Prokopchuk, whose criminal record spans 30 years of robbery, parole offences and assaults while in custody, deserved an indeterminate sentence after he pleaded guilty to an attempted robbery committed in Surrey in 2021. Prosecutors believed his issues were “intractable,” and that the…

Hundreds of Albertans lined up in the cold in Stony Plain on Jan. 22, 2026, some waiting more than an hour, to sign Stay Free Alberta’s petition to force a referendum on the province leaving Canada. Organizers have until May to collect 178,000 signatures for the province’s chief electoral officer to validate. An hour in the cold to sign People in Stony Plain, west of Edmonton, were met by a long lineup when the doors at the community centre opened around lunchtime on Thursday, with some waiting more than an hour in bone-chilling temperatures to add their names. Roger Cyr…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford called on Canadians on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, to boycott Chinese-made electric vehicles that will be allowed into Canada under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade deal with Beijing. Flanked by auto industry executives and Unifor’s national president, Ford said the deal puts Ontario auto jobs at risk. ‘Boycott the Chinese EV vehicles’ “Boycott the Chinese EV vehicles. Support companies that are building vehicles here,” Ford said at a Queen’s Park press conference. “This is a team Canada approach. We gotta stick together.” “Maybe a few people might buy them, and I discourage anyone from buying a…

A Canadian-led study published Jan. 21, 2026 in Current Issues in Tourism found that under current warming, only 22 of 93 potential locations could reliably host a Winter Paralympics in March by 2050 — 16 by 2080 — and proposed earlier dates, a merged Games, multi-country hosts and better snowmaking as adaptations. The Paralympics face the steepest decline The research, led by Daniel Scott of the University of Waterloo with Madeleine Orr of the University of Toronto and Robert Steiger of Austria’s University of Innsbruck, builds on an earlier analysis of 93 locations the International Olympic Committee has identified as…

Toys “R” Us Canada is facing at least seven lawsuits from landlords who say the struggling toy retailer collectively owes them $31.3 million in unpaid rent and other damages, according to Ontario court documents filed last year over stores it occupied in 2024 and 2025. The claims have not been tested in court. Seven landlords, $31.3 million Documents filed with an Ontario court claim the chain failed to pay rent for several properties in 2024 and 2025. The landlords include RioTrin Properties — part of the RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust empire — and Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust, and…