Author: The Canadian Post

Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum in Davos that the way out of the crisis over Greenland starts with security — stronger defences for Greenland and the wider Arctic, delivered through joint NATO investment — while insisting Greenland’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be upheld. “The answer starts with security” Carney addressed the forum in the Swiss resort town of Davos on Tuesday, as global leaders absorbed another escalation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to assert control over the Danish territory. Carney said Canada stands by the principle that Greenland’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be…

Australian police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found on a beach on K’gari, off Queensland’s coast, surrounded by a pack of about 10 dingoes. The RCMP confirmed she was a Canadian citizen, and Global Affairs Canada is providing consular assistance to her family. Found on an early-morning beach Queensland police said the woman’s body had been “interfered with” by a pack of about 10 dingoes on the beach on K’gari, the World Heritage-listed sand island off Australia’s east coast formerly known as Fraser Island. It was not initially known how she died. Early…

Industry experts say Canada’s trade deal with China, which cuts the tariff on Chinese electric vehicles from 100 per cent to 6.1 per cent for up to 49,000 vehicles a year, could lead Chinese automakers to invest in Canada — but large assembly plants likely depend on access to the United States market. A deal that reopened the door The agreement, reached during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing, lowers the tariff on an initial quota of 49,000 Chinese EVs a year, rising to 70,000 within five years, while China reduces tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Speaking…

The first citizen recall petition against a member of Alberta’s legislature has failed. The campaign targeting Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides in Calgary-Bow collected about 6,500 signatures, and Elections Alberta’s official count confirmed 6,519 — well short of the 16,006 required to force a recall vote. A banker’s box, and a message Jenny Yeremiy submitted her petition to Elections Alberta on Tuesday, carrying “Recall Nicolaides” signs and a banker’s box of petition sheets to the agency’s Edmonton office. She told reporters the campaign had collected about 6,500 signatures, well short of the required 16,000, and that the signature threshold felt “pretty…

Air Canada and the union representing its more than 10,000 flight attendants have begun arbitration to settle the wage portion of their contract, the last piece left unresolved after flight attendants voted more than 99 per cent to reject the airline’s final wage offer in September 2025. Wages are the last unsettled piece The Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees said the arbitration hearings opened this week, with arbitrator Paula Knopf presiding. The process began with a first hearing on Jan. 19, with further dates set for Jan. 28 and Feb. 19. Most of the contract…

Canada’s consumer price index rose 2.4 per cent year over year in December 2025, up from 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada reported Monday, January 19, 2026. The increase was driven mainly by the December 2024 GST/HST break falling out of the annual comparison, while grocery prices rose five per cent and gasoline fell 13.8 per cent. A tax break echoes a year later The main force behind December’s increase was not new price pressure but arithmetic. The prices in the consumer price index include sales taxes, and the federal GST/HST break that ran from December 14, 2024, to…

Canada is weighing whether to send a small contingent of troops to Greenland to join Danish-led military exercises, CBC News reported on Monday, January 19, 2026, citing two senior government officials. No decision had been made, and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office declined to comment on the reports. Plans presented, decision pending CBC News reported Monday that contingency planning options were presented to the federal government last week, including sending a limited number of Canadian soldiers to take part in sovereignty-focused exercises organized by Denmark, aimed at safeguarding key infrastructure in Greenland. A source directly familiar with the matter told…

An overnight winter storm on Jan. 19, 2026, dumped 15 to 20 centimetres of heavy, wet snow across the Maritimes, leaving more than 120,000 Nova Scotia homes and businesses without power. Schools and government offices closed across the region, health services were cancelled, and highways saw multiple collisions. Heavy snow, heavier damage The storm arrived Sunday night and intensified into Monday morning. Nova Scotia Power reported about 118,000 customers in the dark by 5:45 a.m.; at the peak, roughly 140,000 had lost power. The utility activated its emergency operations centre and put about 300 employees in the field, but icy…

Canada has approved permanent residency for the father and brother of Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, the Ottawa man whose wife and four children were murdered in March 2024. The family’s lawyer confirmed on Jan. 19, 2026, that both applications were approved earlier this month and the men are awaiting their permanent resident cards. Two years of waiting after an unthinkable loss On March 6, 2024, Darshani Ekanayake, 35, her seven-year-old son Inuka and her daughters Ashwini, 4, Ranaya, 3, and Kelly, two months, were killed in their townhouse in Ottawa’s Barrhaven neighbourhood. Gamini Amarakoon, 40, a family friend and tenant, was also…

Margaret Gray testified on Jan. 19, 2026, the first day of a 10-week public hearing into the death of her son Myles Gray, who died in 2015 after a confrontation with seven Vancouver police officers. She described learning of his death after she herself had called 911 to report him missing. “I dropped on the ground and started screaming” Myles Gray, 33, of Sechelt, was in Vancouver on Aug. 13, 2015, making deliveries for his floral business when an employee told his mother he had abandoned his work van, leaving his keys, wallet and thousands of dollars in product behind.…