Carney, Poilievre say Trump directly responsible for stock market mayhem

Free visits to nationalist parks

Carney said a caller Liberal authorities would marque nationalist parks and historical sites escaped for Canadians this summer.

He said that if elected, his authorities would besides make astatine slightest 10 caller nationalist parks and marine conservation areas, on with 15 caller municipality parks crossed Canada.

“I cognize erstwhile I was increasing up successful Edmonton, Jasper National Park, Canada’s Crown jewel successful my sentiment … was astir similar a 2nd location and it’s surely wherever I made lasting memories,” Carney said. “But creating caller parks and making each our parks much accessible volition assistance guarantee that each Canadian volition beryllium capable to acquisition the quality of our large federation conscionable arsenic I did.”

Carney said helium would enactment Indigenous-led conservation projects and found a caller Arctic Indigenous Guardians programme to support the North.

He besides said his authorities would re-introduce authorities to enshrine First Nations’ rights to cleanable drinking h2o and it would put $15 cardinal to modernize the location, retrieval and liable disposal of “ghost gear” that threatens marine mammals and birds.

Carney says Trump’s tariffs purpose to ‘break’ Canada

Carney said contiguous that the driblet successful the fiscal markets is simply a ”direct effect of President Trump’s unjustified tariffs.”

“The satellite woke up to immoderate beauteous melodramatic moves,” Carney said. “Those measures are going to deed a batch of people’s savings, including their status savings. As overmuch arsenic this is unfortunate, it was not unforeseen.”

He noted that Canada had warned Trump of the risks to the banal markets.

“President Trump’s unjustified tariffs travel with threats to our sovereignty that person 1 extremity down them: to weaken Canada to interruption america truthful that America tin ain us,” Carney said.

Harper to present Poilievre astatine Edmonton rally tonight

My workfellow Kate McKenna has confirmed that erstwhile premier curate Stephen Harper volition present the Conservative person astatine a rally successful Edmonton tonight.

Harper endorsed Poilievre successful the party’s 2022 enactment race. Poilievre served successful Harper’s furniture arsenic curate of antiauthoritarian betterment and past curate of employment and societal development.

Poilievre has been drafting thousands of radical to his rallies during this campaign. Party officials accidental the rally contiguous is expected to beryllium his largest yet.

Harper was premier curate from 2006 to 2015.

Poilievre sees way successful pipelines

Good morning, I’m Carolina de Ryk, the big of CBC’s Daybreak North successful Prince Rupert.

Poilievre is successful northwest B.C this greeting to outline what helium calls his “one-stop shop” program to velocity up approvals for earthy assets projects, limiting hold times for approvals to 1 year.

This is important to a portion wherever there’s a batch of anticipation and interest regarding the enlargement of LNG projects and the imaginable of bringing lipid to the coast.

Last week, the Conservative person was successful Newfoundland, wherever helium outlined a bid of measures to boost the assets assemblage successful Canada, including repealing the lipid tanker prohibition connected B.C.'s northbound coast.

He has besides talked astir unleashing the powerfulness of the assets manufacture astatine anterior run stops successful B.C. by pledging to rapidly physique pipelines, on with dozens of LNG plants successful the province.

Security officials accidental Carney targeted by cognition connected WeChat

An online cognition linked to the Chinese authorities is targeting Carney, information officials said this morning.

The Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force said it traced the cognition to Youli-Youmian, which is the astir fashionable quality relationship connected the societal media level WeChat.

The task unit reported ample spikes successful what it is calling “co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour” connected March 10, which was the time aft Carney won the Liberal leadership, and March 25, aft the national predetermination was called.

The cognition was intended to power Chinese-speaking communities successful Canada and “looked to mould perceptions” astir Carney, the task unit said.

The aforesaid relationship has besides been liable for targeting Conservative Michael Chong and Liberal Chrystia Freeland.

A Liberal Party typical was briefed astir the run yesterday.

"This lawsuit is contained to 1 level and has not dispersed further, nor is it affecting Canadians' abilities to marque an informed determination astir their vote," officials said successful a connection today.

The task unit said it’s going to scope retired to Tencent, which owns WeChat, astir its concerns.

The Liberal person is speaking present from Victoria, B.C.

How tariffs are striking fearfulness into Canadian businesses

Every month, the Bank of Canada surveys Canadian businesses to instrumentality the pulse connected their feelings astir the economy, and however those feelings are driving decisions astir investments, hiring, wage increases and more.

The survey results from February came retired today, and things aren’t looking truthful good: astir one-third of businesses expect a recession to deed successful the adjacent year.

“Business sentiment has deteriorated, and uncertainty is wide owed to the commercialized struggle with the United States,” the survey said.

The large takeaways? Businesses are expecting little growth. Many are delaying important choices, similar investments, citing tariff uncertainty. And galore inactive don’t person beardown intentions to prosecute workers until that uncertainty lifts.

They besides deliberation that tariffs volition thrust up ostentation and propulsion up their ain costs — and they program to walk those terms increases connected to consumers.

Poilievre says seniors shouldn’t wage terms for Trump’s ‘economic vandalism’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is championing his party’s connection to hold by 2 years the clip erstwhile seniors indispensable retreat their savings from their RRSPs and beryllium taxed connected it.

“This two-year hold volition prevention galore seniors from being forced to crystallize losses they're experiencing connected the banal marketplace today,” Poilievre said contiguous astatine an lawsuit successful Terrace, B.C. “We cognize that seniors should not wage the terms for Donald Trump’s economical vandalism implicit the past respective days.”

“And that is wherefore we volition let our seniors to support their wealth invested until they regain their mislaid amounts,” helium added.

Poilievre said a Conservative-led authorities would let seniors who take to enactment to gain up to $34,000 tax-free.

Cattle ranchers acrophobic astir tariffs

I’m Susan Bonner, the big of CBC Radio’s Your World Tonight. I’m successful the foothills of confederate Alberta astatine the Plateau Cattle Co.

John Smith and Laura Laing are third-generation ranchers, with astir 500 caput of cattle.

They’re engaged with calving season. I saw respective calves conscionable 2 hours old, and a mates of births successful progress.

I heard the ranchers’ fears astir the U.S. tariff threats. So acold the agri-food assemblage — the second-largest manufacture successful the state — has been spared. But the menace remains.

Smith tells maine tariffs “are not adjacent doable” because, conscionable similar for vehicles during production, cows tin transverse the borderline respective times implicit their lifetimes. Smith and Laing person been told they could look tariffs of up to $1,000 a cow.

“There's a batch of things that benignant of unit the manufacture and this mightiness beryllium different tipping constituent and an exodus,” says Laing.

It is decidedly an predetermination contented for them and it is frustrating to person to take betwixt the 2 front-runners, Liberals and Conservatives, says Smith.

“It is, you know, antithetic wing, aforesaid bird. There’s not overmuch quality betwixt the 2 parties. And astatine the extremity of the day, the parties are going to accidental immoderate they request to accidental to get elected.”

‘Culture is simply a reflector into the psyche of Quebecers’

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet focused his run lawsuit contiguous connected his plans to boost Québécois culture, calling it a “jewel” that needs to beryllium protected against threats from Trump.

Blanchet called for Internet giants to wage into a money to boost Québécois and Canadian media. It volition besides motorboat a Quebec equivalent to the CRTC and modernize CBC/Radio-Canada, which helium said is simply a “necessity.”

“Culture is simply a reflector into the psyche of Quebecers,” and it has to beryllium shielded from existential threats, said Blanchet, speaking to reporters successful Montreal.

Singh pledges $16B for affordable housing

Speaking successful Toronto, Singh said helium would enactment successful spot a $16-billion strategy to enactment gathering affordable homes.

He said helium wants to regenerate the lodging accelerator money with imperishable backing for 2 caller programs helium called the Canadian homes transportation and the communities archetypal fund.

Today’s announcement follows 1 helium made connected Sunday to necktie national home-building wealth to cities and towns that person strict rent controls.

Singh said the wealth announced contiguous would beryllium provided connected the information that municipalities and provinces guarantee caller homes stay affordable.

“This is simply a transportation that’s really going to springiness the powerfulness to physique much successful communities crossed this country. It’s going to velocity up the process,” Singh said.

He said an NDP-led authorities would physique 3 cardinal affordable homes successful the adjacent 5 years.

Singh besides took purpose astatine Carney for chairing a company, Brookfield Asset Management, that Singh says “profited disconnected the lodging crisis.”

“That’s not idiosyncratic you tin trust,” the NDP person added.