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Canada Moves Ahead With Ostrich Cull After Court Ruling

Agency plans 'complete depopulation' at farm that has more than 300 ostriches

(Newser) - A Canadian farm's fight to save its hundreds of ostriches has reached the end of the road. After Canada's Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal Thursday, the country's food inspection agency said it plans to begin a "complete depopulation and disposal" at the British...

Family's Century-Old Secret: 'Lost' Diamond Was Never Lost

137-carat Florentine Diamond has been locked in a Canadian bank vault since WWII

(Newser) - One of Europe's most storied jewels, the Florentine Diamond, has resurfaced after vanishing from public view for more than a century. The 137-carat, yellow-tinted gem, once owned by the 17th-century Medici family of Florence, was believed lost or stolen after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, reports...

Why Young Canadians Are 'Doom Spending'
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Why Young Canadians Are 'Doom Spending'

Debt and rent are squeezing budgets, but Canada's Gen Z keeps swiping

(Newser) - Young Canadians are racking up debt at record rates, and not because they're chasing luxury. As Maclean's reports, a growing wave of "doom spending" is sweeping through the country's Gen Z, fueled by economic instability, stagnant wages, and a need for small comforts in a bleak...

Canada's Prime Minister: I Apologized to Trump

Mark Carney says he offered a mea culpa over ad that angered the US president

(Newser) - The international tiff over a controversial ad in Canada resulted in a personal apology from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to President Trump. "I did apologize to the president," Carney told reporters at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea on Saturday, per the BBC . The apology...

Senate Votes to Nullify Trump's Canada Tariffs

4 GOP senators voted with Democrats on measure, but it has no chance in the House

(Newser) - The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would nullify US tariffs on Canada. The move comes just as President Trump is engaged in trade talks in Asia as well as an increasingly bitter trade spat with Canada, one of America's largest economic partners, the AP reports. The 50-46 tally was...

He Survived Encounter With Mother Grizzly—Initially

Doctors say a blood clot killed Joe Pendry 3 weeks after attack in BC

(Newser) - A Canadian man who survived a grizzly attack by fighting back with his fists has died of complications from his injuries more than three weeks after the encounter. Joe Pendry, a 63-year-old former boxer, was hunting elk near Fort Steele in British Columbia's East Kootenay region on Oct. 2...

Doug Ford: Anti-Tariff Reagan Ad Did Its Job

'They're talking about it in the US, and they weren't talking about it before I put the ad on'

(Newser) - Ontario's premier bragged Monday about the impact of his anti-tariff ad that prompted President Trump to end trade talks with Canada. Premier Doug Ford said the ad had over a "billion impressions around the world" and "generated a conversation that wasn't happening in the US,"...

Trump Costumes Are Out in Canada This Halloween

Costume shops say demand has disappeared amid trade tensions

(Newser) - Once a Halloween favorite, Donald Trump costumes are no longer in demand in Canada, with costume shops reporting a sharp drop in interest amid ongoing trade tensions. Shop owners say Trump costumes were all the rage in 2016, when he was first running for president, but the joke wore thin...

Trump Adds to Canada's Penalty Over Reagan Ad

Commercial about tariffs should've been pulled sooner, president says

(Newser) - President Trump said on Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by another 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario. Premier Doug Ford had said he would pull the ad after the weekend, and it ran Friday night during...

Ontario to Pause Tariff Spots That Angered Trump

Doug Ford says ads with Reagan speech will still run over the weekend

(Newser) - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday that he will pause an anti-tariff ad campaign in the US after objections from President Trump, who cited the campaign as his reason for cutting off trade talks with Canada. Ford emphasized the campaign's aim was to prompt debate about the impact of...

Ontario Premier, Trump Face Off Over Anti-Tariff Ad

Trump claims Reagan 'loved tariffs for our country'

(Newser) - President Trump announced late Thursday that he was ending trade talks with Canada over an ad the government of Ontario has been airing in the US—and he continued attacking the ad Friday morning. In a Truth Social post, he claimed Canada was "illegally" trying to influence the Supreme...

Trump Calls Off Trade Talks With Canada Over Reagan Ad

Ad denouncing tariffs apparently upset the president quite a bit

(Newser) - President Trump said late Thursday that he was ending "all trade negotiations" with Canada because of a television ad opposing US tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called "egregious behavior" aimed at influencing US court decisions, the AP reports. The post on Trump's social media...

Mama Grizzly Sends 2 Hikers to the Hospital

Authorities say bear was defending cubs on a British Columbia trail

(Newser) - Two hikers are recovering in a British Columbia hospital after they were attacked by a grizzly bear. Authorities say the pair came across a mother bear and her two cubs on Farm Cabin Trail near Pass Lake in the McGregor Mountain range on Sunday, prompting a defensive reaction from the...

The Countries With the Most American Expats

Mexico tops the list of nations hosting the most Americans

(Newser) - Millions of Americans live outside of the United States, according to the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, which recently updated its stats to see which countries host the most former residents of the USA. AARO's analysis used census data culled by the UN and from the US Census Bureau,...

Trump: 'The People of Canada Will Love Us Again'

But there is 'natural conflict,' he says during Oval Office meeting with Carney

(Newser) - President Trump said Tuesday that he was open to extending the free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada through a renegotiation or seeking "different deals" as he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House. Asked if Canada would be able to secure trade concessions, Trump...

Aquarium Gives Canada an Ultimatum on Whales

Fisheries minister prevented shipment to theme park in China

(Newser) - Marineland, the beleaguered Niagara Falls, Ontario amusement park, has issued a stark ultimatum to Canada's government: Pony up cash or watch 30 beluga whales face euthanasia. The park's warning follows the nation's fisheries minister blocking of Marineland's attempt to ship the whales to a Chinese...

Carney to Again Seek Tariff Relief at White House

Canadian economy is feeling the pressure

(Newser) - As trade tensions escalate and steep tariffs threaten Canadian industries, Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading back to Washington for talks with President Trump in search of relief. Carney is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday to resume discussions, marking his second such trip...

Alberta Secessionists Meet Trump Officials

They say Americans were interested in 'where we were at in terms of moving things forward'

(Newser) - Three Alberta separatists seeking US support for their province's independence have held high-level meetings with Trump administration officials. Jeff Rath, Mitch Sylvestre, and Dennis Modry, the co-founder, CEO, and chair of the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project, say they received a warm reception in Washington, DC, on Monday, with...

'Woman in the Well' ID'd Over a Century After Murder

Murder victim Alice Spence's body was found during construction in Saskatoon in 2006

(Newser) - More than a century after her death, Canadian police have identified the "Woman in the Well," whose preserved remains were unearthed in a Saskatoon construction site back in 2006. The remains belonged to Alice Spence, who was born in Michigan in 1881 and moved to Canada in...

Josh Hartnett Taken to Hospital After Collision With Police SUV

Actor returns to set as police continue crash investigation

(Newser) - Actor Josh Hartnett was hospitalized in Canada after he was involved in a collision with a police car—an incident that has left authorities searching for witnesses as the actor quickly returned to work on his latest Netflix project, People reports. Hartnett was hospitalized after the SUV in which...

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