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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem launched the central bank’s review of its framework, but strongly suggested that officials are likely to re-endorse the bank’s current approach to targeting 2% inflation.
A defiant Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, all smiles at an end-of-year holiday party for lawmakers, tried to downplay the most serious challenge yet facing his leadership. “Like most families, sometimes we have fights around the holidays,” Trudeau told a gathering for his Liberal Party’s 153 elected members and their staff in Ottawa on Tuesday. “But of course, like most families...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 180-degree turnaround in immigration policy has rattled Canada’s higher education sector, providing a glimpse into the shock expected to hit other newcomer-reliant industries over the next few years. Trudeau’s government capped foreign student permits earlier this year to help curb record population growth that had strained housing, the job market and public services. More recently, it...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to restrict inflows of newcomers will narrow the country’s gap between housing supply and demand, according to a budget watchdog. If Trudeau is successful in curbing immigration over the next three years, that would reduce the housing gap in 2030 by 534,000 units, or 45%, said the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, which provides...
Canadians broadly support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to drastically slash immigration targets, but the move has done little to boost his waning popularity, a new poll suggests. Despite three in four respondents agreeing with the immigration reduction, just over half said it has no impact on their impressions of Trudeau, according to a survey by Nanos Research Group for...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is reducing inflows of newcomers for the first time in more than a decade, ushering in a new era for a country that once embraced high levels of immigration. Canada axed its annual permanent-resident target to 395,000 for next year, down 21% from the earlier goal of half a million set last year, said a...
US streaming-service giants are asking a Canadian court to block Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new 5% tax on their revenues in the country, which is supposed to help fund local news. The Motion Picture Association-Canada — which represents studios including Netflix Inc., Paramount Global and Walt Disney Co. — want the Federal Court of Appeal to quash new obligations forcing...
Canada is on track to add more newcomers with construction skills than in recent years, an early sign that a targeted immigration program is working — though still not quickly enough to close a massive housing supply gap. Admissions of permanent residents with trades skills rose 29% from January through March from the average quarterly rate in 2023, according to...
Canadian cities are being overwhelmed by a record surge of newcomers seeking asylum, straining their budgets and pushing temporary shelters beyond their limits. In Peel, a suburban region in greater Toronto, the shelter system is running at 300% of capacity, with asylum-seekers occupying more than 70% of the beds and many more camping on the streets, according to Patrick Brown...
Canada’s radical immigration experiment, which has given it one of the world’s fastest rates of population growth, has run into big trouble in the ring of suburbs and small cities around Toronto. A post-pandemic surge of international students is causing prices for rental housing to soar and placing a spotlight on the uncontrolled growth of colleges that, according to the...
Canadian media companies are caught in the middle of a standoff between Silicon Valley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, with their audiences unable to access news on some of the world’s most popular social media platforms.The government passed a law to try to force Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to pay publishers in return for linking to...