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US Travel Industry Takes a Big Hit From Canadian Boycott

Numbers are down for the 10th month in a row

(Newser) - A sharp decline in the number of Canadians traveling to the US that began when President Trump returned to office has continued for the tenth month in a row. According to Statistics Canada, air travel from Canada to the US fell nearly 24% last month compared to the same period...

There Was Something Rather Odd About This Bus Driver

He kept missing stops in Hamilton—because he'd stolen the bus and wasn't the real driver, say police

(Newser) - In a scene straight out of a surreal comedy-action movie, a man in the Canadian province of Ontario allegedly stole a city bus this week and drove it along its regular route—picking up passengers, making stops, and even enforcing fare rules, all while police quietly tailed the 60-foot-long "...

Canada Eyes Another Step Toward Europe

Sources say Carney is personally backing push to enter Eurovision song contest

(Newser) - Canada is a long way from Europe, but that isn't stopping it from trying to crack the Eurovision lineup. A surprise note in the nation's recent federal budget revealed that the government and CBC/Radio-Canada are exploring a bid to join the famously over-the-top song contest. Finance minister Franç...

Canada's Measles Cases End the Americas' Elimination Status

Low vaccination rates fuel outbreak, with two deaths reported among infants

(Newser) - Canada has officially lost its measles elimination status, a move that also strips the entire Americas region of its measles-free designation. The change, announced by Canada's Public Health Agency, stems from a persistent outbreak that began in the country in October 2024 and has continued since then, STAT News...

Soccer Team Wins Title During Snowstorm

Ottawa player scored spectacular 'icicle kick'

(Newser) - David Rodriguez scored his second goal of the game in the 106th minute and Atletico Ottawa won the Canadian Premier League's North Star Cup in a snowstorm Sunday night, beating defending champions Cavalry FC of Calgary 2-1. "I'm never going to forget this night," said Rodriguez,...

FBI Director's Broken Promise May Erode Trust With Spy Allies

NYT reports that director Kash Patel broke a pledge to MI5 chief

(Newser) - At a meeting outside London in May, MI5 chief Ken McCallum asked the FBI director, Kash Patel, to keep a key surveillance position open in Britain for an agent working in high-tech surveillance. And that's when the relationship between MI5 and the FBI, a key part of the Five...

Family's Century-Old Secret: 'Lost' Diamond Was Never Lost
Family's Century-Old Secret:
'Lost' Diamond Was Never Lost
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Nov 9, 2025 6:01 AM CST

Family's Century-Old Secret: 'Lost' Diamond Was Never Lost

137-carat Florentine Diamond has been locked in a Canadian bank vault since WWII

(Newser) - One of Europe's most storied jewels, the Florentine Diamond, has resurfaced after vanishing from public view for more than a century. The 137-carat, yellow-tinted gem, once owned by the 17th-century Medici family of Florence, was believed lost or stolen after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, reports...

Canada Moves Ahead With Ostrich Cull After Court Ruling

Agency plans 'complete depopulation' at farm that has more than 300 ostriches

(Newser) - A Canadian farm's fight to save its hundreds of ostriches has reached the end of the road. After Canada's Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal Thursday, the country's food inspection agency said it plans to begin a "complete depopulation and disposal" at the British...

Why Young Canadians Are 'Doom Spending'
Why Young Canadians
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Nov 2, 2025 3:10 PM CST

Why Young Canadians Are 'Doom Spending'

Debt and rent are squeezing budgets, but Canada's Gen Z keeps swiping

(Newser) - Young Canadians are racking up debt at record rates, and not because they're chasing luxury. As Maclean's reports, a growing wave of "doom spending" is sweeping through the country's Gen Z, fueled by economic instability, stagnant wages, and a need for small comforts in a bleak...

Canada's Prime Minister: I Apologized to Trump

Mark Carney says he offered a mea culpa over ad that angered the US president

(Newser) - The international tiff over a controversial ad in Canada resulted in a personal apology from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to President Trump. "I did apologize to the president," Carney told reporters at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea on Saturday, per the BBC . The apology...

Senate Votes to Nullify Trump's Canada Tariffs

4 GOP senators voted with Democrats on measure, but it has no chance in the House

(Newser) - The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would nullify US tariffs on Canada. The move comes just as President Trump is engaged in trade talks in Asia as well as an increasingly bitter trade spat with Canada, one of America's largest economic partners, the AP reports. The 50-46 tally was...

He Survived Encounter With Mother Grizzly—Initially

Doctors say a blood clot killed Joe Pendry 3 weeks after attack in BC

(Newser) - A Canadian man who survived a grizzly attack by fighting back with his fists has died of complications from his injuries more than three weeks after the encounter. Joe Pendry, a 63-year-old former boxer, was hunting elk near Fort Steele in British Columbia's East Kootenay region on Oct. 2...

Doug Ford: Anti-Tariff Reagan Ad Did Its Job

'They're talking about it in the US, and they weren't talking about it before I put the ad on'

(Newser) - Ontario's premier bragged Monday about the impact of his anti-tariff ad that prompted President Trump to end trade talks with Canada. Premier Doug Ford said the ad had over a "billion impressions around the world" and "generated a conversation that wasn't happening in the US,"...

Trump Costumes Are Out in Canada This Halloween

Costume shops say demand has disappeared amid trade tensions

(Newser) - Once a Halloween favorite, Donald Trump costumes are no longer in demand in Canada, with costume shops reporting a sharp drop in interest amid ongoing trade tensions. Shop owners say Trump costumes were all the rage in 2016, when he was first running for president, but the joke wore thin...

Trump Adds to Canada's Penalty Over Reagan Ad

Commercial about tariffs should've been pulled sooner, president says

(Newser) - President Trump said on Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by another 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario. Premier Doug Ford had said he would pull the ad after the weekend, and it ran Friday night during...

Ontario to Pause Tariff Spots That Angered Trump

Doug Ford says ads with Reagan speech will still run over the weekend

(Newser) - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday that he will pause an anti-tariff ad campaign in the US after objections from President Trump, who cited the campaign as his reason for cutting off trade talks with Canada. Ford emphasized the campaign's aim was to prompt debate about the impact of...

Ontario Premier, Trump Face Off Over Anti-Tariff Ad

Trump claims Reagan 'loved tariffs for our country'

(Newser) - President Trump announced late Thursday that he was ending trade talks with Canada over an ad the government of Ontario has been airing in the US—and he continued attacking the ad Friday morning. In a Truth Social post, he claimed Canada was "illegally" trying to influence the Supreme...

Trump Calls Off Trade Talks With Canada Over Reagan Ad

Ad denouncing tariffs apparently upset the president quite a bit

(Newser) - President Trump said late Thursday that he was ending "all trade negotiations" with Canada because of a television ad opposing US tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called "egregious behavior" aimed at influencing US court decisions, the AP reports. The post on Trump's social media...

Mama Grizzly Sends 2 Hikers to the Hospital

Authorities say bear was defending cubs on a British Columbia trail

(Newser) - Two hikers are recovering in a British Columbia hospital after they were attacked by a grizzly bear. Authorities say the pair came across a mother bear and her two cubs on Farm Cabin Trail near Pass Lake in the McGregor Mountain range on Sunday, prompting a defensive reaction from the...

The Countries With the Most American Expats

Mexico tops the list of nations hosting the most Americans

(Newser) - Millions of Americans live outside of the United States, according to the Association of Americans Resident Overseas, which recently updated its stats to see which countries host the most former residents of the USA. AARO's analysis used census data culled by the UN and from the US Census Bureau,...

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