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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 22, 2025 9:07 am Updated April 22, 2025 9:51 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size As the federal election campaign nears its end with less than a week to go before voting day, all federal party leaders are making their last pitches to Canadians on why they deserve their vote. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to unveil his party’s costed platform Tuesday, while the Liberals and NDP already released theirs over the weekend.Four days of advance polls closed Monday, with Elections Canada reporting record turnout on…

This year marks a major milestone for Onslow — 100 years since the town was officially relocated from the mouth of the Ashburton River to its current site at Beadon Point.

‚SPECIAL PERSON‘ Vance is on a mostly personal, four-day visit to India along with his wife, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and their three children. India is seeking an early trade deal with the US – its largest trading partner – before the end of a 90-day pause on the steep tariffs announced by Trump’s administration. „Prime Minister Modi is a tough negotiator. He drives a hard bargain,“ Vance said to laughter from the audience. India, the world’s fastest-growing big economy, hopes to „positively conclude“ the first part of a trade pact by autumn, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman…

Attack on Hezbollah ally one of two deadly strikes as Lebanon PM under pressure to dismantle armed groups.A top commander of the armed wing of the Lebanese party al-Jamaa al-Islamiya has been killed in an Israeli drone attack in Lebanon. The attack on Hussein Atoui’s car south of Beirut was one of two deadly strikes launched by Israel on Tuesday. The strikes were part of a wave of ongoing violations from both sides of the border of the ceasefire agreement struck last November between Israel and Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah, risking a flare-up of hostilities. Lebanon’s Civil Defence confirmed that…

This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersHello and welcome back to Energy Source, coming to you from New York and Sydney.Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, has warned the lessons of the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “have not yet been fully understood”. His comments to my colleague Malcolm Moore come as global leaders descend on London for discussions on energy security.UK Prime Minister Sir…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Argentex, a UK-listed specialist in managing foreign exchange risk, has become a casualty of market volatility sparked by US President Donald Trump’s trade war, with the company forced to suspend its shares after a rout in the dollar tore through currency markets.The company, which trades on the UK’s junior stock exchange Aim, said on Tuesday that it had suffered a “rapid and significant impact on its near-term liquidity position” from margin calls on its currency derivative positions.Argentex provides currency hedging and exchange…

The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new effort to study autism, the NIH’s top official said Monday.The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy’s autism studies to study „comprehensive“ patient data with „broad coverage“ of the U.S. population for the first time, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said.“The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain. The NIH itself will often pay multiple times for…

CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022.Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAs Google heads back to the courtroom Monday, the company is arguing that the U.S. needs the company in its full form to take on chief adversary China and uphold national security in the process. The remedies trial in Washington, D.C., follows a judge’s ruling in August that Google has held a monopoly in its core market of internet search, the most-significant antitrust ruling in the tech industry since the case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago.The…

A slump in air travel to the U.S. is emerging in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and it could hit Walt Disney ’s important theme park business where it hurts. With international guests accounting for about 20% of Disney’s park attendance in Orlando, Florida, and Anaheim, California, according to Barclays, the latest data on non-U.S. citizens traveling to America is troubling. Foreign arrivals year-over-year in March sank 9.6% to about 5.04 million, the International Trade Administration’s passenger monitor shows. Things don’t appear like they’re going to get better anytime soon. During Delta ’s post-earnings call earlier this month,…

Gen. Dan Caine, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made an unannounced visit to the southwestern border over the weekend for a firsthand look at the military’s growing role in helping to stem migrant crossings, a top priority for President Trump.That General Caine made his first official trip to the border as chairman underscores the importance of the mission to the White House, and the Pentagon, even as crossings have dropped precipitously during the Trump administration.General Caine, a former Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, visited the military headquarters for the operation at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., on Saturday.…