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Air Canada now charges $30 per passenger to book by phone and has cut five U.S. routes, including Toronto-Charleston and Montreal-Seattle, from 2027.
Kawhi Leonard scored 23 in his return as Toronto led by as many as 48 points and beat Chicago 135-92 in the Raptors’ home opener.
Electronic Arts is closing Edmonton’s BioWare after 31 years and cancelling the next Mass Effect game, a blow Alberta’s game industry called a gut punch.
How the FHSA, the $60,000 Home Buyers’ Plan, the new GST rebate of up to $50,000, the home buyers’ amount and Ontario, Toronto and B.C. land transfer tax rebates stack for first-time buyers in 2026.
Canadian passport fees rose March 31, 2026, to $163.50 for 10 years. Here are posted processing times, who can renew online, urgent and express service, documents and photo rules.
The maximum CPP retirement pension at 65 is $1,507.65 a month in 2026, but the average new pension is $858.34. Here is what you get at 60, 65 and 70, how the post-retirement benefit and the CPP enhancement add to it, and how to check your own estimate.
The 2026 federal tax brackets start at 14 per cent on the first $58,523 and top out at 33 per cent above $258,482. Here are the CRA’s federal and provincial brackets for every province and territory, the 2026 basic personal amount and what we know about 2027.
EI regular benefits pay 55 per cent of your average insurable weekly earnings in 2026, to a maximum of $729 a week. Here is how the amount is calculated, the hours you need in your region, the waived waiting period, how to apply on canada.ca and when the first payment arrives.
The Bank of Canada announces its next rate decision at 9:45 a.m. ET on Oct. 28 with a new Monetary Policy Report. The policy rate is 2.25 per cent, several big banks now expect a quarter-point hike, and our table shows what that would mean for variable mortgages at $300,000, $500,000 and $750,000.
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PSAC will hold strike votes from Nov. 16 to Jan. 22 for 120,000 federal public servants after talks with Treasury Board stalled over wages and job security.
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Walker Kessler scored 26 on perfect shooting in his Lakers debut and Luka Doncic added 28 as Los Angeles beat Golden State 127-105.
Prime Minister Mark Carney told Ukraine’s president the new U.S.-Russia diesel supply deal opposes allied peace efforts, and Canada will keep its Russia sanctions.
Montreal travel-tech company Hopper has cut jobs weeks after co-founder Dakota Smith left the unit that brings in most of its revenue, reports say.
A boat carrying 305 people from Djibouti to Yemen capsized on the night of Oct. 8-9. The IOM says 139 are dead, 84 are missing and about 82 survived.
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Ireland’s EU presidency proposed a 141-billion-euro cut to the 2028-2034 budget ahead of the Oct. 15-16 summit. Sweden and the Parliament pushed back.
















































