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Canada's Dabrowski, partner Routliffe claim U.S. Open women's doubles title
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 5, 2025
Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand partner Erin Routliffe captured their second career U.S. Open women's double title Friday afternoon, beating top seeds Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic and American Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-4....
Trade war spurs Canada to rethink steel strategy
E&E News
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September 5, 2025
TORONTO — The Canada-U.S. trade war is pushing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to retool the steel industry, shifting output from America’s auto sector to domestic rail, port and defense projects. “We need to help them pivot, retool,”...
Canada Rethinks EV Targets to Aid Carmakers
Oil Price
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September 5, 2025
Canada’s government will not continue Trudeau’s policy mandating at least 20% electric vehicle sales from automakers as of the model year 2026, as Mark Carney’s new cabinet is looking to protect the auto industry that has been hit by the U.S....
Canadian economy bled 66,000 jobs in August as unemployment rate at its highest since 'pandemic days'
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 5, 2025
Canada's unemployment rate reached nearly its highest point since 2016 as the economy shed 66,000 jobs in August, according to new data from Statistics Canada. The unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points in August to 7.1 per cent, a level...
Canada’s Carney unveils billions in relief hit by Trump and China tariffs
South China Morning Post
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September 5, 2025
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday rolled out a multibillion-dollar relief package for businesses battered by tariffs imposed by both the US and China. Carney said his government will invest C$5 billion (US$3.6 billion) through a new...
Canadian Doctors Are Warning Tourists Over Florida Vaccine Policies: ‘Sheer Unadulterated Craziness’
The New York Sun
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September 5, 2025
Canadians reconsidering winter vacations in Florida because of President Trump’s tariffs and 51st state rhetoric now have another reason to shun the Sunshine State. Doctors in Canada are telling travelers that they could be at risk heading to...
Canadian campuses are mostly female. What are men doing instead?
The Globe and Mail
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September 5, 2025
More on this story Higher education reporter Joe Friesen spoke with The Decibel podcast about the factors driving the gender gap in higher education. Columnist Marsha Lederman also weighed in on what is lost when fewer men go to university. As...
Canada's game? Survey says yes, NHL outpaces all other pro leagues
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 5, 2025
More than three-quarters of Canadians consider themselves sports fans, and the NHL remains the most popular pro sports league. The Strategic Counsel commissioned the survey based on detailed interviews with 3,240 Canadians in all regions in both...
Canada’s terrible, no good, very bad wildfire season isn’t over yet, as BC ignites
Canada's National Observer
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September 4, 2025
On the first day of school, the smoke finally hit Vancouver. We’d dodged it all summer — or rather, it dodged us, as wind and wildfire sent plumes to almost every other city in the country. This has been the second-worst fire season in Canadian...
Canadian unemployment jumps to 7.1% as tariffs weigh on economy
Al Jazeera
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September 5, 2025
Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025 Canada had almost 1.6 million people unemployed in August as the economy lost thousands of jobs and its unemployment rate reached a nine-year peak, barring the pandemic years. On Friday, data released by...
Canada’s Jesse Marsch Discusses World Cup Politics and Roster Plans
Times News Global
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September 5, 2025
Bucharest, Romania — Canada men’s national team manager Jesse Marsch spoke openly on September 4, 2025, about his plans for the 2026 World Cup roster and the intersection of the tournament with U.S. politics. This came before Canada’s friendly...
Canada's unemployment rate rises to record high in August
Xinhua News Agency
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OTTAWA, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Canada's unemployment rate rose to 7.1 percent in August, the highest since May 2016, said Statistics Canada on Friday. Since January, the country's unemployment rate has increased 0.5 percentage points. In contrast,...
Canadian man extradited from Mexico over $450M tobacco smuggling network
Winnipeg City News
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September 5, 2025
A Canadian man accused of playing a key role in a massive contraband tobacco network has been extradited from Mexico, allowing legal proceedings against him to resume after nearly three years on the run. On Aug. 29, 2025, investigators from the...
Canada’s first Indigenous bishop ‘saw himself as Christ’s faithful soldier and servant to life’s end’
Anglican Journal
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September 5, 2025
Bishop Charles Arthurson, who became the first Indigenous bishop in Canada upon his election as suffragan bishop of the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan in 1989—a position he held until his 2008 retirement—died Aug. 30 in Prince Albert, Sask. He...
Canada’s NDP bans leadership hopefuls from relying on too many ‘cis’ male supporters
LifeSite
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September 5, 2025
News The NDP's leadership race imposes strict rules limiting signatures from so-called 'cis' men to 50% while mandating diversity quotas. (LifeSiteNews) — The New Democratic Party (NDP) had restricted how much support leadership candidates can...
Canada delaying plan to force automakers to hit sales targets for EVs next year: sources
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 5, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year, according to sources knowledgeable of the plans. The move comes as the industry has struggled under U.S. tariffs....
Canada Grows a Hell of a Lot of Lentils. Why Won’t We Eat Them?
The Walrus
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September 5, 2025
For lentil growers, 2016 was a heady time. Or, at least, as heady as it can get in the world of lentils. Normally, the humble, stodgy legume doesn’t garner much attention, let alone celebration, at least not in Canada. But the high-fibre staple...
Canada’s Gen Z Workforce Hit Hardest by Economic Uncertainty
Visual Capitalist
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September 5, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Canada’s Gen Z Workforce Hit Hardest by Economic Uncertainty This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible...
National anthems
Chicago Reader - Illinois
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September 5, 2025
This time of year is always strange for me. Right after Labor Day of 2000, I moved back to my parents’ place in Naperville from San Francisco, where I had been living since late 1993, to be with my father during his final days (he died that...
Canada delaying plan to force automakers to hit EVs sales targets
CBC/Radio-Canada
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September 5, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles. The move is part of a series of measures the government announced Friday to help the sectors most affected by U.S. President...