Monday, September 1st, 2025
Ontario to break interprovincial barriers for regulated professions
Ontario’s provincial government says it will remove interprovincial barriers for workers in regulated professions, allowing them greater mobility when searching for work across the country. The Labour Day announcement says the province has signed 10 agreements with provinces and territories to remove barriers to let workers come to Ontario to find work in over 50 “in-demand” professions, including engineers, architects and electricians. The province says under these agreements, Ontarians in these fields will also be able to find work in other provinces. As of Jan. 1, 2026, people working inRead more
Wildfires are disrupting back-to-school again. Experts call for support to plan for them
Newfoundland parent Scott Chandler jokes that September is usually a whirlwind he “kind of dreads,” between juggling the back-to-school season for his son Rhys and restarting a host of his extracurriculars, like hockey, karate and swimming lessons. This year, however, he’s looking forward to the normalcy of that busy schedule. They’ve been caught in a different sort of whirlwind since his family lost their home as well as Rhys’s school Cabot Academy in the Conception Bay North wildfires in early August. Following local orders, they’ve decamped three times in mere weeks: from anRead more
Trump’s treasury secretary confident U.S. Supreme Court will declare tariffs legal
A sign is placed in front of the American whisky section at a B.C. liquor store after top-selling U.S.-made products were removed from shelves in February amid the ongoing trade war. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press) U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday expressed confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold President Donald Trump’s use of a 1977 emergency powers law to impose sweeping tariffs on most trading partners, but he said the administration has a backup plan if it does not. Bessent told Reuters he was preparing a legalRead more
Russian interference suspected in GPS jamming of EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria
President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a joint news conference with Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda near the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, on Monday. Bulgaria confirmed that von der Leyen’s plane lost its GPS signal briefly as it approached Plovdiv airport, and said jamming from Russia is suspected. (Mindaugas Kulbis/The Associated Press) A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely in Plovdiv airport and von der LeyenRead more