Author: The Canadian Post

Conservative delegates in Calgary voted 87.4 per cent to keep Pierre Poilievre as party leader in a mandatory leadership review announced on January 31, 2026. The result, following the Conservatives’ April 2025 election defeat to Mark Carney’s Liberals, confirmed Poilievre will lead the party into the next federal election. A decisive result in Calgary Pierre Poilievre’s hold on the Conservative Party was cemented at the party’s three-day national convention in Calgary, where delegates voted in a mandatory leadership review triggered by last April’s federal election loss. The result, announced in the early hours of Saturday, January 31, gave Poilievre 87.4…

Statistics Canada says the gap between Canada’s highest- and lowest-income households widened in the third quarter of 2025. The disposable-income gap between the top and bottom 40 per cent of households rose to 47.5 percentage points, and the top 20 per cent held 65.5 per cent of the country’s total net worth. The only group that went backwards The income gap — the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent and the bottom 40 per cent of the income distribution — reached 47.5 percentage points in the third quarter of 2025, up…

Canada and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue Korean automotive manufacturing in Canada. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly and her counterpart Jung-Kwan Kim agreed to cooperate on a Korean auto footprint, domestic electric vehicle production, batteries and critical minerals, and to set up a joint industrial cooperation committee. A forum, a committee and a footprint The agreement, announced Jan. 29, 2026, followed a meeting earlier in the week between Joly and a delegation led by Hoon-Sik Kang, presidential special envoy for strategic economic cooperation and chief of staff to South Korea’s president. Joly and Jung-Kwan Kim, South…

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt delivers her second State of the Province address in Fredericton on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, setting out her government’s priorities for the year ahead. She is expected to highlight new collaborative care clinics and a $270-million deal for doctors, while acknowledging an $834.7-million deficit and tariff risks. A health-care record to sell Holt, the first woman to serve as New Brunswick’s premier, has said her government spent much of 2025 building a foundation for health care and that patients will start seeing results from new investments in 2026. The clearest marker is primary care. Holt…

A coalition of 26 Manitoba environmental, labour, health and community organizations is urging the provincial NDP government to fund energy efficiency, public transit and protection of 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030 in Budget 2026, saying its Path to Net-Zero plan lacks money. A letter delivered to the finance minister Twenty-six Manitoba civil society organizations published a joint letter to the provincial government on Jan. 29 and delivered it to Finance Minister Adrien Sala. Members gathered at the Legislative Building in Winnipeg that morning to set out their priorities before the spring budget. The signatories include Climate…

Canada’s construction sector grew to $170 billion in GDP in the third quarter, up 1.3 per cent from the previous quarter and faster than the wider economy, but the Canadian Construction Association warns tariffs are raising building costs and a shortfall of 108,300 workers looms by 2034. Growth that outpaced the wider economy The Canadian Construction Association’s winter 2026 economic insights report puts construction GDP at $170 billion in the third quarter. That is an increase of 1.3 per cent from the previous quarter, compared with 0.5 per cent growth for all industries, and the largest quarter-to-quarter gain the sector…

Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have finalized outstanding language on short-term disability and personal days in tentative five-year agreements running to Jan. 31, 2029, ending a key step toward ratification votes for 55,000 members after more than two years of labour strife. The last wording is now settled Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said on Jan. 29 that they had finished the outstanding contractual language in the tentative agreements first reached in December 2025. The remaining clauses dealt with the short-term disability program and personal days, two items the union confirmed its…

Humboldt Broncos families say a new Netflix series about a small-town hockey team rebuilding after a fatal bus crash sensationalizes their 2018 tragedy, in which 16 people died and 13 were injured, and was made without consulting them. Netflix says the eight-part fictional series is not inspired by any real-life event. A plot that feels familiar in Saskatchewan The series is set in the fictional working-class town of South Dorothy, Minnesota, where the high school hockey team has produced championship banners for decades. In the story, a bus crash kills several players and the team’s coach, and the town turns…

Months after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency culled 314 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C., after an avian influenza outbreak, supporters continue to gather online and at the farm, mixing genuine concern for farmers with misinformation about vaccines and the outbreak itself. A flock that became a symbol Melody Leinweber, a mother of four from West Kelowna, has a new tattoo: a stylized ostrich with a colourful beak and pink and turquoise stars. Her daughter had wanted an ostrich for Christmas, and she wanted a permanent reminder of the flock. She had still not told her children the…

Alberta’s 9,000 unionized provincial employees return to the office full time starting this weekend, and their union is answering with a brown bag protest. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says workers will place bags reading “Hybrid work tastes better” on their desks, and more than 725 grievances have already been filed. A lunch bag as a picket sign Bobby-Joe Borodey, vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, said workers are planning to place brown paper bags on their desks with a note stating: “Hybrid work tastes better.” Borodey said the bag symbolizes pushback on the provincial government ending…