Author: The Canadian Post
National Defence plans to install 47 Arctic sensor stations across the North starting as early as next summer, according to regulatory filings published in Nunavut. The unstaffed, container-like stations — part of a classified project called Crossbow — would strengthen NORAD’s surveillance and early warning of threats approaching over the Arctic. 47 Arctic sensor stations planned from Yukon to Alert The planned network would begin in Yukon, near the border with Alaska, and follow the Arctic coastline east across the Northwest Territories, ending at Alert, Nunavut, the most northerly inhabited place in the world. Hercules transport aircraft and Chinook helicopters…
Companies controlled by B.C. property developer Terry Hui have gone to Federal Court alleging the Canada Revenue Agency engaged in a “pattern of misconduct” while moving to collect tax debts totalling nearly $330 million. Terry Hui’s CRA tax dispute, rooted in an audit that began in 2013, now spans at least three court applications filed this year. Five companies, debts dating back to 2007 Five companies within Hui’s real estate development group are targeted in the CRA audit, according to the court application: Adex Securities, One West Holdings, a B.C. numbered company and two Luxembourg-based companies. Hui is best known…
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have unveiled a joint $8.7 billion plan in Ottawa to protect Ontario steel, auto and critical minerals industries from United States tariffs, centred on a steel fund worth more than $5 billion, $2.5 billion for auto plants and $1 billion in federal money for roads to the Ring of Fire. A steel fund at the centre of the plan The largest piece is a new Joint Steel Action Fund, backed by $3.55 billion from the federal government and $1.67 billion from Ontario over five years. The money is meant to help…
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston tabled the Powering the Economy Act on February 24, 2026, creating an offshore wind revenue law with a $750,000 licence fee and a $7,000-per-megawatt annual levy. Three weeks earlier, on February 4, Nova Scotia signed a memorandum with Massachusetts to explore exporting offshore wind power to the state. Setting the province’s price Nova Scotia moved in February to turn its offshore wind ambitions into a priced, regulated industry. The Powering the Economy Act, tabled by Premier Tim Houston on February 24, creates an Offshore Renewable Energy Revenue Act setting a refundable $250,000 bid fee, a…
A mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 10, 2026, killed eight people and injured more than two dozen others. An 18-year-old former student killed her mother and stepbrother at a home, then killed five students and an educator at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School before taking her own life, police said. What happened on February 10 The RCMP received a report of an active shooter at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School at about 1:20 p.m. local time on Tuesday, February 10, and issued an emergency alert describing a suspect. Officers who entered the school found six people dead and…
Operation Nanook-Nunalivut 2026, the Canadian Armed Forces’ annual Arctic winter exercise, ran from February 10 to 27, 2026, around Yellowknife, Behchokǫ̀ and Whatì in the Northwest Territories. The Department of National Defence advised residents on February 9 to expect aircraft, armoured convoys, artillery and increased noise as Joint Task Force North set up near Yellowknife Airport. Aircraft, artillery and a headquarters by the airport Residents of Yellowknife, Behchokǫ̀ and Whatì were told to expect a noticeably larger military presence from February 10 to 27 as the Canadian Armed Forces launched Operation Nanook-Nunalivut, the winter centrepiece of its long-running Operation Nanook…
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on February 9, 2026, to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, unless the United States is “fully compensated” and receives an ownership share. Canada financed the entire $6.4-billion crossing, which Canada and Michigan jointly own. “I will not allow this bridge to open” In a lengthy Truth Social post on Monday, February 9, Trump said Canada has treated the United States “very unfairly for decades” and claimed the new crossing was built “with virtually no U.S. content.” He argued Canada owns both sides of the bridge…
Canada officially opened its first consulate in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, on February 6, 2026. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Governor General Mary Simon attended the opening, which Ottawa delivered under its Arctic Foreign Policy as United States pressure to acquire the strategically located island unsettled Denmark, Greenland and their allies. A flag raised in Nuuk The Canadian flag went up over the new consulate on Friday, February 6, in a ceremony attended by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, Governor General Mary Simon — the first Inuk to hold that office — and a delegation of more than…
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s new automotive strategy in Vaughan, Ontario, on February 5, 2026. Ottawa is scrapping the mandate requiring all new vehicles sold by 2035 to be electric, restoring purchase rebates of up to $5,000, and investing billions in charging infrastructure and in an auto sector threatened by United States tariffs. Announced in the heart of Ontario auto country Mark Carney chose an auto parts manufacturer in Woodbridge, in Vaughan, to launch the strategy on Thursday, February 5 — a deliberate setting in the province where Canada’s vehicle assembly and parts plants are concentrated. More than 90…
Three players with the Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey team — JJ Wright, 18, and Cameron Casorso, 18, of Kamloops, B.C., and Caden Fine, 17, of Birmingham, Alabama — were killed on February 2, 2026, when their car collided with a semi-truck on Highway 2 near Stavely, Alberta, while driving to morning practice. A routine drive to practice The crash happened on Monday morning, February 2, at the north entrance to Stavely, a town of a few hundred people just over an hour’s drive south of Calgary. The Alberta RCMP said the three teenagers were in a small car travelling…
