Author: The Canadian Post

Atlantic Canada’s hydrogen producers welcomed a €200-million German funding scheme approved by the European Commission in January 2026, because it unlocks a matching €200 million from Canada, creates a concrete route to long-term export contracts in Germany, and sets up competitive auctions in 2027 for up to 300 megawatts of production capacity. A market, not just a subsidy The European Union’s executive branch approved the German state aid scheme the week before the Atlantic industry response, clearing €200 million to support production of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives — known as renewable fuels of non-biological origin — in Canada for…

Toronto’s University Health Network will double its permanent housing program for homeless people who frequently use emergency departments, building 54 new apartments modelled on Dunn House, where residents cut their emergency room visits by 52 per cent in their first year. Housing as medicine Dunn House, which opened in 2024 on a parking lot UHN owns in Toronto’s west end, is Canada’s first social medicine housing project: permanent homes for people experiencing homelessness, built next door to the hospital and paired with direct access to doctors, nurses and other health professionals. The expansion will see UHN build a near replica…

Lawyers for the attorneys general of Canada and several provinces asked the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold Quebec’s law allowing police to stop drivers at random without cause, while civil rights groups argued the power predictably produces racial profiling and should not survive. Day two: the interveners The country’s top court spent a second morning on Tuesday hearing arguments over whether it is constitutional for police to make traffic stops without reasonable suspicion that a driver has committed an offence. Tuesday’s session heard from interveners — interested parties on both sides. Civil rights groups and organizations representing Black and…

Insured damage from severe weather in Canada exceeded $2.4 billion in 2025, according to Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc., making it the tenth-costliest year on record. The late-March ice storm in Ontario and Quebec was the single most expensive event, at $490 million. The year in five events The Insurance Bureau of Canada released the annual tally on Tuesday. The largest severe weather events of 2025 were: Together, those five events account for about $1.275 billion — more than half of the year’s total insured losses — spanning ice, fire, hail and flood in a single calendar year. A billion…

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says Ontario’s plan to pull Crown Royal whisky from government liquor stores — retaliation for Diageo closing its Amherstburg bottling plant — is misguided, warning that with trade tensions rising with the United States, now is not the time to weaken Canadian supply chains. Quebec speaks up for its own workers Girard said he has shared his concerns directly with Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy over the boycott, which Premier Doug Ford intends to launch next month by removing Crown Royal from Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores. Ontario is retaliating against Diageo, the British…

Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, that the U.S.-led world order is in “the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” and urged middle powers to act together against economic coercion by great powers, warning that “if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” ‘A rupture, not a transition’ Delivering a special address titled “Principled and Pragmatic: Canada’s Path” at the forum’s 56th annual meeting, Carney opened in French by describing “a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction, and the beginning…

The National Institute on Ageing’s fourth annual survey of Canadians aged 50 and older finds 43 per cent now say they cannot afford to retire when they had hoped, up from 38 per cent in 2024, while optimism about aging, loneliness and access to primary care all remain stubborn problems. Optimism falls for the first time The institute surveyed just over 6,000 adults aged 50 and older in June and July for its fourth annual report, Perspectives on Growing Older in Canada, released Tuesday with support from Manulife. A majority of respondents — 57 per cent — still said they…

Members of Nunavut’s legislative assembly raised Greenland’s flag outside the legislature in Iqaluit on Tuesday in a show of solidarity with the Inuit-majority island, as U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his threats to annex the Danish territory against its people’s wishes. A flag, a horn-honking crowd Speaker David Joanasie said dozens attended the afternoon flag-raising outside the legislature in downtown Iqaluit, including Premier John Main, the representative of the Danish consulate in Iqaluit and Greenlanders living in Nunavut. “It was a great crowd. People driving by were honking their horns, so it was great to hear,” Joanasie said in an…

British Columbia Energy Minister Adrian Dix says an agreement between BC Hydro and the Nisga’a Nation will see the North Coast Transmission Line supply up to 600 megawatts of clean electricity to the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal, helping the roughly $30-billion project reach a final investment decision. A power deal for Canada’s second-largest LNG project The agreement, announced in Prince George on Tuesday, is a memorandum of understanding between BC Hydro and Ksi Lisims LNG that confirms the steps to connect the floating liquefied natural gas facility to the provincial grid. The project, planned for Nisga’a Treaty territory on…

Vancouver-based Lululemon Athletica has temporarily pulled its new Get Low workout line from its North American website after customers complained the leggings were see-through when bending or squatting and fit poorly. The collection remains on sale in stores while the company reviews the feedback. Pulled days after launch Lululemon said online sales of the Get Low collection — leggings, tights and tank tops designed to give wearers a sculpted look and a weightless feel while training — have been temporarily paused so the company can better understand some initial customer feedback. The company did not specify what the feedback contained,…