Cash-strapped N.B. braces for cuts as Premier Holt’s Liberals deliver budget – New Brunswick | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 17, 2026 8:09 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size New Brunswickers are about to find out exactly how Premier Susan Holt’s Liberal government plans to tackle the province’s worsening finances. Finance Minister René Legacy is expected to table the new provincial budget in […]
Sailors visiting Vancouver brag of catching hundreds of crabs, investigation underway | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] Fisheries officials say they are reviewing a video showing crew on a large ship boasting about catching hundreds of Dungeness crabs while visiting Vancouver — and appearing to break numerous fishing regulations in the process. Video circulating on social media since last week shows the Mandarin-speaking merchant sailors hauling up crab traps dangling off […]
Israel says Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, has been killed in a strike
[ad_1] Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, arrives in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 27, 2025, to attend a memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Courtney Bonneau | Afp | Getty Images Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, had been killed in airstrikes overnight. […]
Ford government silent on cost of fighting release of premier’s cellphone records | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] The Ford government appears to be silent on how much its years-long battle to protect the premier’s cellphone records from release has cost the taxpayer, as it moves to change the law and potentially nullify its latest legal defeat. Since 2022, provincial lawyers have worked untold hours to block Global News’ attempts to access […]
Protesters fear ‘American-style’ 2-tiered health care is coming to Canada | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] They called it a “Day of Action for Public Healthcare.” Health-care workers and supporters of Canada’s public health care system rallied in more than a dozen cities across the country on Monday, including Calgary and Edmonton, pleading for the federal government to protect Canadians from what they claim is an emerging two-tiered health-care system. […]
Trump says he thinks he will have the ‘honor’ of ‘taking Cuba’
[ad_1] A tricycle is decorated with U.S. and Cuban flags in Havana on Feb. 26, 2026. Yamil Lage | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday said he thinks he will have the “honor” of “taking Cuba,” speaking during an executive order signing at the White House. “Whether I free it, take it, […]
Peterborough supervised consumption site to close as Ontario government ends funding – Peterborough | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] A supervised consumption and treatment (CTS) site in downtown Peterborough is set to close after the Ontario government announced it will end funding for several sites across the province. The Simcoe Street facility, which first opened in June 2022, is among seven supervised consumption sites located in communities that also have a Homelessness and […]
Ontario records consecutive months of improving housing starts | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] Descrease article font size Increase article font size Homebuilding in Ontario is showing early signs of recovery ahead of the spring construction season, potentially beginning to reverse years of decline. New data released by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows housing starts in the province increased year-over-year for the second month in […]
Ontario’s solicitor general breaks silence on police corruption investigation | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] Ontario’s solicitor general has broken his silence on the arrest of seven serving Toronto police officers, weeks after the results of a massive anti-corruption probe were released. Dubbed Project South, a York Regional Police investigation into organized crime led to the arrest of seven Toronto police officers, spreading to Peel Region, where three officers were suspended. […]
Ford accused of limiting transparency law because of cellphone defeat in court | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] Facing the prospect of a general strike in 2022 over his government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to legislate education support staff back to work, Ontario Premier Doug Ford blinked. At a hastily scheduled news conference, he said he would rescind the law, explaining he’d been “on the phone all night” returning calls about […]