Here's a selection of stories from The Canadian Press to introduce you…
Trump says 'We'll see' whether trade talks with Canada should be resumed
US President Donald Trump said “we'll see” when asked on Sunday whether he would resume trade talks with Canada that he abandoned earlier this year.
Trump made several comments about the ongoing trade dispute with Canada while speaking with reporters before the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors Gala.
He says he has a good relationship with Prime Minister Mark Carney, but Canada, he says, “makes a lot of things that we don't need because we make them too.”
In October, the president stopped trade talks over an Ontario-sponsored ad that quoted former President Ronald Reagan criticizing the tariffs.
Air Transat prepares to begin grounding flights today as strike deadline approaches
Air Transat is poised to begin grounding flights today as the clock approaches the strike deadline.
Travel company Transat AT Inc., which owns the travel airline, said flight cancellations would begin Monday and increase over the next two days before a potential shutdown on Wednesday.
The Airline Pilots Association, which represents 750 Air Transat pilots, called a 72-hour strike over the weekend.
The two sides held round-the-clock talks in Montreal last week as the company looks to stave off a shutdown ahead of the peak holiday travel period.
Montreal hosts G7 ministers to talk artificial intelligence and quantum technologies
Artificial intelligence is likely to dominate the agenda at a meeting of the industry, digital and technology ministers of the world's most influential Western countries in Montreal this week.
The two-day event is part of a series of ministerial meetings as Canada chaired the G-7 country groups this year, a role that also included hosting the G-7 leaders' summit in June in Kananaskis, Alta.
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon predicted the G7 meeting would be “productive.”
Paul Samson of the Center for International Governance Innovation expects digital issues to take up much of the conversation as they relate to broader issues such as economic competitiveness and sustainability.
Bank of Canada expected to keep key rate on hold beyond uncertain 2025
Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged this week and step aside to end a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty.
As of Friday, financial markets were pegged at nearly 93 percent in favor of keeping the rate at this week's meeting, according to LSEG Data & Analytics.
A series of surprisingly strong jobs reports from Statistics Canada and an unexpected 2.6 per cent annual jump in real GDP for the third quarter have bolstered calls from most economists to put growth on hold for the rest of the year.
The central bank started 2025 with cuts in January and March, then took a pause mid-year and continued with cuts in successive decisions in September and October.
Ottawa budget bill proposes ending free postage for blind people
The federal Liberals' budget bill currently moving through Parliament contains a small amendment to Canada Post legislation that could spell the end of a critical service that provides accessible reading materials to blind people.
Buried deep within Liberal Bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, there are provisions that mention repealing several sections of the Canada Post Corporation Act without further explanation of what falls under those pieces of legislation.
It's these few lines of legislation that allow Laurie Davidson, executive director of the Center for Equal Library Access, to do an important part of her work.
Her organization—one of the few in Canada that provides accessible reading materials to people who are blind, visually impaired or have other disabilities—sends about 6,500 accessible books and 500 audiobook players to clients across the country each year.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2025.
