As the 2025 tax season approaches, Bill Bisson is stuck in tax limbo, still waiting for the Canada Revenue Agency to resolve a $3,471 penalty stemming from his 2023 return a charge he and his tax adviser say is an obvious CRA error. It's frustrating, it has created a lot of stress for me, said Bisson, who lives in Beaver Bank, N.S., just outside Halifax. It just keeps hanging over my head.
Via Rail says recent train cancellations along its Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor were in response to "heightened operational pressure." A number of trains between Toronto and Ottawa, Ottawa and Montreal, and Montreal and Ottawa were cancelled "end-to-end" Monday due to what Via Rail's live tracker called "operational constraints." Pressed for details, the federal Crown corporation declined to be interviewed but said via email that the cancellations are a short-term measure meant to "protect service reliability" during what's expected to be a challenging time.
My cofounder and I officially founded West Tek Defense Corporation in August 2022. We were doing smart rifles for the military. It was complicated. (At one point, we were literally balancing redox equations for propellant in the ammo.) The physics background we both had helped a lot; essentially, everything we saw was something we'd encountered in a class or during personal research. We spent about three years on the entire process. Ultimately, we found out it wasn't going to work - mostly because of regulation.
Across Ontario, producers are building healthier soils and improving their operations through everyday decisions - ones that shape productivity today and influence the legacy left for the next generation. The Ontario On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) supports this work by providing cost-share funding to support the implementation of nitrogen management, cover cropping and rotational grazing projects. Many operations are already putting these beneficial management practices (BMPs) to work.
Two-time Olympic gold medallist Sidney Crosby has been named captain of Canada's men's hockey team at the Milan Cortina Games. The Pittsburgh Penguins superstar captained Canada to a gold medal the last time NHL players participated in the Olympics at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. Four years earlier, he scored the "golden goal" in overtime as Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in the Vancouver 2010 final.
While entrepreneurship can be challenging, Black founders often face additional barriers in accessing funding, mentorship, and networks, barriers that can also create psychological hurdles. In fact, a 2025 BDC study found that 72% of Black entrepreneurs shared that the fear of racial stereotypes almost stopped them from starting a business. To support founders on every stage of their journey, we've updated our guide to highlight programs, funding, mentorship, and community resources specifically for Black entrepreneurs across Canada!
MP Jamil Jivani headed home to his riding of BowmanvilleOshawa North on Friday after several meetings in Washington, D.C. His itinerary included meetings with his university friend U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and automotive manufacturer General Motors. Some 1,200 workers were laid off last week when the automaker cut one of three shifts at its Oshawa plant.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan initially defended the choice on X. YC-backed Canadian startups that reincorporated in the US had twice the average valuation as those that didn't, he wrote. "There are lots of reasons to build great companies in Canada, and there are lots of great YC and non-YC startups that thrive and are making the Canadian tech scene great," he wrote a few hours later. "Where you are incorporated increases your access to capital. That's it."
Vancouver has experienced an unusually warm winter, on track to be its first without snow in 43 years. Even the bees were out in Vancouver Thursday. (Nav Rahi/CBC) The city is already looking lush and green after one of its warmest Januarys on record. Some of its famed cherry blossoms were blooming by the middle of last month, and have since been joined by daffodils and other flowers.
The inspector general, a relatively new arm's-length position tasked by the province with overseeing policing, was asked to investigate Thursday after eight current and retired Toronto officers were charged in an organized crime and corruption investigation. The case immediately raised questions about whether systemic issues contributed to organized crime's alleged infiltration of the ranks, said Kent Roach, a University of Toronto law professor and contributor to several high-profile police inquiries. Those questions, he said, are best answered by a civilian-led investigation.
The plaque from Heritage Toronto will "salute" the community's courage, Mayor Olivia Chow told a news conference at The 519, a city agency located in Toronto's gay village. "The bathhouse raids were a horrid mistake and a serious stain on Toronto's reputation, a scar a community feels to this day, 45 years later," Chow said. "It was wrong. It was shameful. And we remember."
A special weather statement for wind gusts up to 80 kilometres per hour and blowing snow has been issued for most of the Greater Toronto Area by Environment Canada. Meanwhile it issued a yellow weather alert for Halton region due to the added risk of significantly reduced visibility from the snow. About four to eight centimetres of snow is expected by Friday evening throughout the GTA, said the national weather agency.
Legendary Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Devon White will headline this year's induction class into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The class will also include former national team mainstay and current St. Louis Cardinals coach Stubby Clapp, former Women's National Team star Katie Psota, and former Montreal Expos pitcher and executive Bill Stoneman. Blue Jays' World Series champion elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
Stellantis said it would be selling its 49 per cent equity stake in NextStar to LG Energy Solution, in a Friday morning statement. Stellantis says it remains a committed customer and will continue to source battery products from NextStar. To date, the companies say roughly 1,300 people are employed at the Windsor plant with a long-term goal of 2,500 having employees.
A major corruption probe that led to the arrest of several Toronto police officers this week could put ongoing criminal court prosecutions at risk if the courts deem the officers' credibility fatal to the cases in question, experts say. The allegations against the officers have the ability to spoil entire cases, Criminal Lawyers' Association president Adam Weisberg says. This has the potential to cause a lot of cases to have to be stayed or withdrawn, he told CBC Toornto.
From a preliminary or initial assessment, there are things to like in terms of supporting Canadian Canola's access to the U.S. biofuels market moving forward for sure," Davison says. A central update confirms that feedstocks from U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) countries are considered domestic for the purposes of the credit. Davison called that clarification "one of the key updates as part of the guidance that is favourable in our case to Canadian Canola.
Tate McRae says she's pro-Canada, but has she even spoken out in favor Heated Rivalry? She has not! Alberta native McRae is facing backlash from her fellow Canadians after starring in a promotional video for Team USA at the upcoming winter Olympics. Ontarian Jack Innanen, who stars on FX's Adults, called her out in a video on his Instagram Story.
Parents in Pickering say they're concerned by the way a series of threats at a local elementary school have been handled by administrators in recent weeks, arguing the school needs to improve its communication and safety measures. William Dunbar Public School was placed in a lockdown on Jan. 27, after a threat made by phone against the school. The lockdown was subsequently lowered to a hold and secure after police arrived and assessed the scene, which was lifted at 2:20 p.m.
Maya Duckworth-Pilkington spent the first two weeks of January buried in her textbooks, studying. Until she submitted her final advanced functions exam, the Rosedale Heights School of the Arts senior didn't realize how much time and effort she was putting into her studies. The pressure is higher than ever to do well, she explained over text message. People aren't sleeping well, eating well or getting leisure time.
As the Detroit Three automakers have made fewer cars in Canada over the past decade, Japanese car makers have kept their Canadian footprint consistent, according to a new report. The findings by the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing, a non-profit think-tank at Western University that analyzes manufacturing in Ontario, show a decline in the overall number of cars made in Canada compared to a decade ago. In 2016, 2.3 million cars were assembled in the country; by 2025, that figure fell to 1.2 million.
