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VICTORIA — An immigration expert says ending the temporary foreign worker program won't solve "deep structural problems" with housing and other issues in British Columbia, while having "problematic consequences" for labour availability.

OTTAWA — The federal electric vehicle sales mandate will not be implemented in 2026 as planned, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday, pushing back by at least a year a policy that would have set minimum sales targets for electric and plug-in hybrid

MONTREAL — Amazon and Walmart say they will remove products from their stores that appear to promote the Hells Angels outlaw biker gang.

ST. JOHN'S — Mowi Canada East says about 400,000 fish have died across three of its salmon farming sites along the south coast of Newfoundland. The loss represents about 23 per cent of the Atlantic salmon at the three sites near Harbour Breton, N.L.

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared insolvent the North American branch of battery maker Northvolt as the provincial government looks to recover $260 million owed to it by the company.

Ottawa has announced $370 million in new support for Canadian canola producers facing massive tariffs from China.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies .

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Portugal said Friday that 11 of the 16 people killed when a streetcar derailed were foreigners, as an initial investigative report examining what caused the popular Lisbon tourist attraction to crash was delayed by a

TORONTO — Tenants at three buildings in Toronto’s east end who had been staring down eviction notices have reached an agreement with their landlord to end a public battle that lasted more than two years, both parties said.

TORONTO — A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again, though officials are hopeful to get it operational by the end of the year.