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Montreal police say over $1 million worth of olive oil was stolen after a delivery involving two transport companies in the city never arrived at its destination in Ontario .

Toyota’s factory in Woodstock, Ontario, will soon deploy Digit, a humanoid robot from Agility Robotics, on its production floor. These bipedal machines will unload auto parts from warehouse tuggers and onto the production line—work that until now was performed by humans. Toyota chose humanoid robots because its factories are designed for people.

Freezing rain swept through Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada's most populous province on Sunday, causing widespread power outages as trees and power lines were brought down across the upper Great Lakes region. Thousands of people were left without electricity, while forecasters warned of severe weather heading towards Tennessee. The National Weather Service predicted winds of up to 70 mph (112 kph), along with the potential for tornadoes and hail up to 2 inches (5 centimetres) by Sunday night. «Make sure your safe place is ready just in case,» forecasters advised via a post on X (formerly Twitter). By Sunday evening, approximately 360,000 customers were without power in Michigan, with another 62,000 outages reported in Wisconsin and more than 110,000 in Indiana. In Ontario, over 400,000 customers were affected, reported NYT.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is set to have his first phone conversation with United States President Donald Trump in the coming days, and Trump’s commerce secretary said Canada may get some reprieve from automobile tariffs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is urging a collective “team Canada approach” from Canada's provinces following US President Donald Trump's announcement to introduce a 25% tariff on car imports, as per CTV News.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Alcohol has landed on the front lines of a global trade war, throwing French wines, Irish whiskeys, Kentucky bourbon, Japanese beer and Mexican tequila into the crossfire between the U.S. and its biggest trading partners.

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The decision followed a warning by Trump that Canada would pay a «historic financial price» for its move, Daily Mail reported. The controversy started at the beginning of the week when Ontario premier Doug Ford introduced the electricity tariff as a response to US tariffs, according to the report. Ford had imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota, as per Daily Mail. After Ford suspended the tariffs on the US, Trump agreed not to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium to 50% and claimed it would remain at 25%, according to the report.

«The situation here is very tense in the sense that the administration continues to go back and forth on tariffs and so there is no clear vision of what is really happening,» says Peter Cardillo, Spartan Capital Securities. For emerging markets, is it too late to get bearish and for US market, is it too early to get bullish? Can I put it this way? Peter Cardillo: Well, the tariff situation is impacting the global markets and if this continues here in the States, then it is safe to say that the global markets, especially the emerging markets, will continue to act accordingly.

Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest retailer, is planning to file for bankruptcy, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Elon Musk, who has made headlines for business empires like Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter), has also made headlines for his increasingly large family. With 13 children from various relationships, Musk's personal life is as interesting as his professional life, as per a report. Here are details about the women who have been a part of his life and contributed to his family.

Uncertainty around tariffs and a potential trade war with the United States were the likely culprits behind home sales falling off during the last week of January, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). That weakness pushed national sales down 3.3 per cent compared to December, CREA said in its latest housing report.

The national association representing Canada’s restaurants wants Ottawa’s GST/HST “holiday” made permanent amid early signs it’s helped some cash-strapped Canadians dine out more often.

Almost every day since the expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline was completed in May, a tanker laden with oilsands crude shipped through the line has passed under Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge en route to refineries around the Pacific.

Canadian Energy and Resource Minister Jonathan Wilkinson on the relationship with the U.S., and trade conversations between Prime Minister Trudeau and President Donald Trump.

In the hills of Kentucky where most of the world’s bourbon supply is crafted, a new trade war would feel like an aching hangover that won’t go away

The leader of Canada’s most populous province of Ontario says he’s ripping up a contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink internet services in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada, as well as banning American companies from provincial contracts

Walmart Canada said on Thursday it is investing about C$6.5 billion ($4.51 billion) to build new stores and expand its supply chain, marking its biggest ever investment since opening its first store nearly 30 years ago.

By Michael Nitefor

Garth Hudson, passed away at 87 on Tuesday morning at the Ten Broeck Centre for Rehabilitation & Nursing in Upstate New York. Musical genius is known for his unique collaboration with The Band.