Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday announced a 25 per cent increase in the GST credit to help lower-income consumers cope with the high cost of groceries. Branded as the “Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit,” the temporary boost takes effect this July and lasts for five years. The federal government will also issue a one-time payment this year, equal to 50 per cent of the credit.

Canadian airlines continue to cancel flights by the hundreds following a record-breaking snowstorm that blasted southern Ontario and Quebec on Sunday and Monday before whirling farther east. After hundreds of cancellations on Sunday, aviation analytics firm Cirium says roughly 300 more flights across the country had been called off as of 9 a.m., affecting tens of thousands of travellers. Toronto's Pearson airport saw 146 departures cancelled, while the Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax airports had 92 nixed flights combined.

The changes will see the time-based rate of $0.50 per minute increase to $2 per kilowatt hour. The move comes after the council approved a $250,000 capital budget to install two 100 kW DC fast chargers at City Hall and the Energy Centre, funded by $150,000 in municipal funds and a $100,000 grant from the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre’s Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program, back in 2022.

Mark Carney has been circling the globe on government aircraft since becoming prime minister — part of his efforts to secure new trade links and investment to double non-U.S. exports in the next decade. In just the first month of this year, he visited France, China, Qatar and Switzerland. The Prime Minister's Office seldom confirms trips months in advance, and summit plans may change given the current geopolitical tumult.

Guilherme Holtz and his family spent 11 hours on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Toronto and were looking forward to getting home to Quebec City by Saturday morning. But their connecting flight scheduled for 8 a.m. was cancelled. He said the family was booked on another flight at 6 p.m.  “I'm hoping that it stays like that, there's no more cancellations, and we can go home,” Holtz said in an interview at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

International trade experts say U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Canada will hurt his own economy just as much, if not more, than Canada’s. They say that means Trump may ultimately seek an off-ramp to avoid the economic damage, similar to walking back threats to impose tariffs on eight European countries last week if Denmark didn’t hand over ownership of Greenland to the U.S.

Cole Carey learned quickly to keep his mouth shut when skiing in the snowy wake of a galloping horse: there’s the danger of snow, ice and the occasional flavour of animal droppings dusted into the air. Carey is what's called a slider in skijoring, a winter sport that could be the seasonal alternative to water skiing — substituting water for snow, a wetsuit for a snowsuit, and a boat for a one-horsepower steed.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100 per cent tariffs over its new trade deal with China.  Referring to Prime Minister Mark Carney as “governor,” his old insult for former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the president’s social media post Saturday morning says if Carney thinks Canada can become a “drop off port” for China to send products into the U.S., he’s “sorely mistaken.”

Three people face drug and firearm charges after police seized loaded weapons and an estimated $240,000 worth of drugs and cash in a Calgary-based trafficking investigation.  Alberta police charged the suspects on Jan. 7 following an investigation that began in July 2025 into alleged drug trafficking in the city. As part of the investigation, the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) searched two Calgary addresses — a home in Castleridge and a hotel suite — as well as four vehicles linked to the suspects.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented Thursday on the separatist movement in Alberta — making him the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the province's politics. While appearing on the right-wing TV station, Real America's Voice, Bessent claimed Canada won't let Alberta build a pipeline to the Pacific. "I think we should let them come down into the U.S.

The City of Calgary has laid out plans to finish replacing its fragile water main, with the work expected to be done sometime in December. Construction crews are set to start preparing sites in three areas of the city ahead of replacing the troubled Bearspaw South Feeder Main. Crews will be on site on Friday. The water line has ruptured twice in 18 months and has been described by Mayor Jeromy Farkas as "terminally ill."

A survey of 5,700 Alberta teachers and school leaders suggests an overwhelming majority feel overwhelmed and, at times, unsafe in overcrowded classrooms while being "disrespected" by a province that overrode their Charter rights in a labour dispute. "Across Alberta, teachers and school leaders have spoken," Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers' Association, told reporters Wednesday after releasing the survey results.

The federal government agreed to set aside its decision ordering the wind-down of TikTok’s Canadian operations. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada confirmed in a statement that the Federal Court set aside the order “on the consent of the Government of Canada and TikTok.” On Wednesday, a Federal Court judge set aside a November order for the social media company to wind down operations in Canada, meaning it can keep running its offices here while the industry minister conducts another review.

It wasn't on the scale of "March of the Penguins," but a baker's dozen of king penguins strutted through the Calgary Zoo on Wednesday to mark 14 years of the winter event.  About a hundred families watched the 13 birds slowly make their way along the 10-minute stroll. Penguin handlers were guiding them along the path, with Augustus, the youngest of them at age two, being chided not to dawdle.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's call at the World Economic Forum for middle powers to band together against economic coercion by "great powers" is winning some cross-partisan support at home and garnering attention worldwide. The speech — which the Prime Minister's Office confirmed Carney wrote himself — painted a grim picture of a world in which global powers are increasingly using economic dominance for political coercion, and in which countries like Canada cannot continue to pretend that the way things used to be is the way they will ever be again.

Two former Progressive Conservative justice ministers are among more than 30 lawyers speaking out against Alberta's government for what they say is "unacceptable" conduct. In a letter published this week, the lawyers say they're concerned that recent legislation and public attacks on the justice system are undermining democracy. Among the signers are former justice ministers Ken Rostad and Verlyn Olson.

Alberta Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is calling on Premier Danielle Smith's government to reconvene the legislature five weeks early, saying her government needs to take accountability during a crisis of hospital overcrowding. Nenshi says major hospitals operating at 102 per cent capacity is "not normal" and says the province needs to declare a state of emergency until capacity becomes manageable.

There are solutions to the crisis enveloping Greenland, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday as global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland absorbed another escalation in U.S. President Donald Trump's push to assert control over the Danish territory. During his address to the forum in the ski resort town of Davos, Carney said Canada stands by the principle that Greenland's sovereignty and territorial integrity must be upheld.

The first of more than two dozen recall petitions launched against members of Alberta's legislature has come up short. Jenny Yeremiy submitted her petition against Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides to Elections Alberta on Tuesday, but said she needed thousands more signatures. She says the campaign collected about 6,500 signatures, well short of its required 16,000. The petition was launched in October and, if successful, would have forced a constituency-wide vote on whether Nicolaides should lose his seat in the legislature.

Experts say Canada's presence at the World Economic Forum is even more important this year, with Prime Minister Mark Carney's pitch to expand global trade relationships, especially as rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to "hijack" the annual meeting. The conference in Davos, Switzerland, brings together politicians and wealthy corporate leaders to discuss global affairs and economic development, but Ivey Business School fellow Mahmood Nanji says the latest edition "takes on a different kind of meaning" amid global conflict and economic upheaval.

Grief was a continuous experience that hit my family last year. It’s something that I’ve experienced before, but some hit harder than others. Especially the death of my brother’s cat, George. He was a consistent staple of our home. Everyone around us knew who he was, and they loved his visits. He was this loud orange cat, who was surprisingly smart for what it was worth.

Calgary resident convicted of two counts of second-degree murder found not-guilty

Statistics Canada says the end of the federal government’s tax holiday a year earlier pushed the annual pace of inflation up two ticks to 2.4 per cent in December. A poll of economists heading into Monday’s data release had expected the annual inflation rate to hold steady at 2.2 per cent. StatCan said Ottawa’s move to take GST off some items for two months starting mid-December in 2024 dropped prices for dining out, alcohol, children’s toys and more a year earlier, but those discounts fell out of the annual comparison and pushed the consumer price index higher to end the year.

Christmas is over, post-holiday credit card bills are due, it’s dark outside for longer than it is light, and New Year's resolutions may be becoming harder to sustain. There are many reasons to feel “down” in January. And thanks to one psychologist, today — the third Monday in January — is branded the most depressing day of the year.  What is Blue Monday?

Across Alberta, more than 100 museums are tucked into small towns and villages, drawing visitors with gimmicks, spectacles and history. But these quaint institutions face many challenges just to keep their doors open.  Faced with underfunding, staffing shortages, and aging populations, even the largest Alberta exhibits struggle to attract visitors and demonstrate their value. But in North Country Cinema's film…