The stubbornness of inflation and intense domestic divisions over the Israel-Hamas conflict are looming heavily over the federal Liberals as ministers prepare to meet over three days in Montreal next week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to chair the cabinet retreat starting Sunday to prepare his government for the return of Parliament a week later.

Housing affordability and cost of living remain the most critical issues for the government, which has yet to find a way to counter attacks from the Conservatives that Liberal policies are to blame for the economic turmoil.

Tensions remain

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lawyer for imprisoned opposition leader said Tuesday that Russian authorities charged her in absentia with participating in an extremist group. The same charges were brought against three other lawyers who represented Navalny and were jailed in October in a move his allies had decried as designed to put additional pressure on the politician.

Olga Mikhailova, who defended Navalny for over a decade and has left Russia, revealed on social media that the charges were brought against her. “For 16 years, you defend a person

Former Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista has bought into Las Vegas Light FC of the United Soccer League.

The 43-year-old Bautista, as the primary investor, takes over as chairman and governor of the club.

“As a soccer fan and former professional athlete, I am excited to be involved with the world’s game,” Bautista said in a statement. “Since my retirement from professional baseball, I have witnessed the incredible growth of soccer in the United States and particularly with the USL,

CALGARY — Alberta oil production hit an all-time record in November, as oilsands companies ramped up output to prepare for the imminent completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

The Alberta Energy Regulator says crude oil production in the province rose by 8.8 per cent in November to a new historic high of 4.2 million barrels per day.

Alberta averaged 3.8 million barrels per day of oil production in the first eleven months of 2023, up 1.6 per cent from 202

Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo as part of a settlement with the London-based spirits giant.

Combs and Diageo “have now agreed to resolve all disputes between them,” the two parties said in a statement released Tuesday. Diageo is now the sole owner of Ciroc vodka and DeLeon tequila, two brands Combs had promoted in the past, and has no business relationship with Combs going forward.

No further details of the settlement were released.

Combs , saying the company didn’

TORONTO — Sum 41 is heading back home to play what they say will be their final show.

The Canadian rockers have booked Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Jan. 30, 2025 as the last stop on a massive world tour that runs for the better part of a year.

Tour Of The Setting Sum, as it’s being called, already has 76 shows with more to be added. It kicks off in Southeast Asia on March 1 before winding through Europe and North America.

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index declined more than 100 points on Tuesday, weighed down by losses in energy and base metal stocks, while U.S. stock markets were also down.

The S&P/TSX composite index was down 113.79 points at 20,948.09.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 231.86 points at 37,361.12. The S&

The City of Toronto is opening up a fifth warming centre at 5 p.m. Tuesday due to the extremely cold temperatures expected overnight.

Cecil Community Centre at 58 Cecil St. will be opening its doors alongside the warming centres already open at 136 Spadina Road, 75 Elizabeth Street, the North York Warming Centre at 12 Holmes Avenue and 885 Scarborough Golf Club Road.

Warming centres are activated when temperatures reach -5 C and the one surge site, with a 30-person

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that .

The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, noted that inflation is slowing even as growth and — a combination that he called “almost as good as it gets.”

Waller’s remarks follow recent comments from other senior Fed officials that suggest