Author: The Canadian Post

General Motors confirmed on January 29, 2026, that it will end the third shift at Oshawa Assembly on February 2, returning the plant to two shifts and laying off about 500 employees. Unifor, which represents the plant’s hourly workers, says more than 700 direct jobs will be lost, with total losses across the supply chain reaching up to 1,200. Two numbers for the same blow The gap between the company’s figure and the union’s ran through every account of the decision. GM said about 500 employees at the Oshawa complex, which builds light- and heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks on…

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency told staff on January 27, 2026, that 1,371 jobs would be affected by federal cost-cutting, with 587 positions to be eliminated outright, the Agriculture Union said. Days earlier, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada confirmed it would cut 665 positions and close seven of its 20 research operations across the country. Inspectors told at a town hall CFIA employees learned the numbers at an all-staff town hall on Tuesday, where the agency laid out its share of a government-wide expenditure review. The Agriculture Union, which represents roughly 4,000 of the agency’s nearly 6,400 employees, said 1,371 jobs…

The Bank of Canada held its target for the overnight rate at 2.25 per cent on January 28, 2026, its second consecutive hold. The bank projected economic growth of 1.1 per cent in 2026 and 1.5 per cent in 2027, and named the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement a key source of uncertainty. A hold, with a warning attached The decision itself surprised no one. Governor Tiff Macklem said the economy has evolved broadly in line with the bank’s expectations since policymakers paused their easing cycle in December, and governing council judges the current rate “remains appropriate” — conditional…

Federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says Ottawa’s Build Canada Homes agency has received about 450 proposals for affordable housing projects, but provinces must put more money into transitional and supportive housing — and the health and employment supports that go with it — to move people off the street. Happy, with one big exception The federal housing minister says he wants to see the provinces step up their support to get people off the street and into long-term homes. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Gregor Robertson said he’s generally happy with provincial and municipal support for Ottawa’s bid…

Canada’s premiers are in Ottawa for two days of meetings, including a first ministers’ session with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday, as they try to present a united “Team Canada” front ahead of this summer’s CUSMA review and U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest 100 per cent tariff threat. Two days in the capital Canada’s premiers are set for two days of huddling in the nation’s capital, with the economy, affordability and trade high on the agenda. They meet among themselves as the Council of the Federation on Wednesday, then sit down with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday. The…

Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra placed the Peel District School Board under provincial supervision on Wednesday, the seventh board taken over since he became minister. Calandra said the move stops a plan to lay off 60 teachers mid-year; York Catholic was given two weeks to avoid the same fate. ‘The chaos it causes for students’ Calandra announced Wednesday that he has put the Peel District School Board — Ontario’s second-largest board, serving Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon — under supervision, and is giving the York Catholic District School Board two weeks to make a case for avoiding the same fate. The…

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake centred near Orillia, Ont., struck just before 11 p.m. Tuesday at a depth of five kilometres, Earthquakes Canada says. The tremor was felt from Kitchener through Toronto to Belleville and Niagara Falls, generating thousands of felt reports, with no damage or injuries reported. Felt across the region at bedtime If it felt like the earth moved beneath your feet late Tuesday night, it did — if you were in southern or central Ontario. Earthquakes Canada recorded the magnitude 3.7 quake at 10:59 p.m. ET, with its epicentre about 23 kilometres southeast of Orillia, roughly 99 kilometres…

A Longueuil woman who threw boiling water on a 10-year-old boy playing a doorbell prank was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison. Stéphanie Borel, 47, had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. The boy suffered second-degree burns, and his identity is protected by a publication ban. Twenty-seven months, on a joint recommendation Stéphanie Borel was sentenced at the Longueuil courthouse on Wednesday to 27 months in prison. Quebec court Judge Marc Antoine Carette agreed with a joint recommendation presented by the Crown and the defence in determining her sentence. Borel, 47, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault last September in connection…

Thousands of Global Affairs Canada employees have received notices warning they may lose their jobs as Ottawa trims the public service. The diplomats’ union says about a third of its members got notices, and questions why the department is cutting staff before its foreign policy review is finished. Notices land before the plan does Thousands of employees at Global Affairs Canada have been issued notices warning they may lose their jobs, months before a foreign policy review is completed that is supposed to give the department its updated priorities. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said the department has the broad…

Montreal-area transit agency Exo is cutting 73 jobs — about 11 per cent of its workforce — in its 2026 budget, and warns it cannot reach a $100-million savings target by 2028 without eventually reducing service. Quebec’s transit agencies face a persistent funding shortfall despite recovering ridership. A smaller budget and a warning Exo, which operates suburban commuter trains and buses across the Montreal region, unveiled a 2026 budget that reduces overall spending by 0.4 per cent from the previous year and eliminates about 11 per cent of its workforce — 73 jobs. Board chair Pierre Fortin said the agency…