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The Mayor of Selkirk says despite U.S. tariffs, things are running fairly smoothly at the Selkirk steel mill.

What Prime Minister Mark Carney did want to talk about Wednesday is new measures he’s putting in place to support Canada’s steel and lumber industries – both suffering because of the unresolved trade war with the United States. Mackenzie Gray explains what’s planned, as well as the reaction.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce new supports for the country’s lumber and steel industries on Wednesday, as companies continue to deal with fallout from the U.S. trade war. A senior government source says Carney will add $500 million to the Softwood Lumber Development Program and reduce quotas on foreign steel imports from...

Weeks after accepting a loan of $500 million from the provincial and federal governments, Algoma Steel announced it will layoff roughly 1,000 workers. Local union leadership joined Focus Ontario to discuss that decision and the future of their members.

During question period on Wednesday, the Official Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre questioned Prime Minister Mark Carney for giving $400 million to Algoma Steel without securing jobs for workers.

Canada’s steel industry is taking another hit because of tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Jillian Piper explains why Algoma Steel is laying off 1,000 workers earlier than expected.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday that he was aware of massive layoffs at Algoma Steel before the province agreed to loan $100 million to the company. “The Titanic was sinking up there. We either save, you know, two-thirds or we don’t save anything,” he said.

With news on Monday that Algoma Steel is planning lay off about 1,000 workers due to U.S. tariffs, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly stood up in the House of Commons during question period to respond to comments from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. “My team and I have been in contact with Algoma’s leadership team — we...

Montreal is hosting the annual Canadian Steel Conference this week. This year’s gathering of industry leaders is being dominated by U.S. tariffs and government policy. Brayden Jagger Haines reports.

Algoma Steel, which employs about 2,800 people in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is set to receive $500 million in combined loans from the provincial and federal governments. Mackenzie Gray explains how the funding is aimed at helping the manufacturing giant while it’s caught in the middle of the U.S. trade war.

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hadju announced Monday that Canadian steel maker, Algoma Steel, will be receiving $400 million in federal loans through the ‘large enterprise tariff loan’ as well as another $100 million from the Ontario provincial government, amid U.S. tariffs. The loans will help the company, which is based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.,...

Clay Young talks with the mayor of Selkirk on their steel mill and the effects of tariffs on it.

On this episode of Focus Ontario, a deep dive on the layoffs at Algoma Steel, the government’s nagging housing problem, record-setting levels of advertisement spending and a rocky road ahead for CUSMA.

New revelations the premier and prime minister knew job cuts were coming to Algoma Steel before they handed over a $500-million loan. 

Why Algoma Steel is laying off 1,000 workers earlier than expected. How frustration is growing toward Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, within her own party and beyond. The World Health Organization’s first guidelines for weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro. Plus, why Oxford has named “rage bait” as its 2025 word of the year.

Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday announced that Canada is slashing steel import quotas for countries that do not have a free trade agreement with Canada from 50 to 20 per cent of 2024 levels. And countries outside the U.S. and Mexico that do have trade pacts with Canada will see their quotas dropped from...

Natan Obed, president of Canada’s national Inuit organization, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami spoke during a repatriation ceremony of Indigenous artifacts at the Canadian Museum of History on Tuesday. He said the late Pope Francis had told him ‘Thou shall not steal.’ The Pope made the comment to Obed during a visit to Iqaluit and later when...

For more than six decades a Vancouver man has taken to the field every football season – supervising games as a referee. And as Jay Durant tells us in This is BC, at 87-years-old, Wayne Steele has no plans to hang up his whistle

At least 36 people have been killed, and almost 300 others are still unaccounted for, after a fire that engulfed high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong and burned for hours. In the U.S., two National Guard members were shot and left in critical condition Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., near the White House. Back in...

Fourteen months after stealing one of Banksy’s iconic ‘Girl with Balloon’ paintings from a London gallery, UK suspect Larry Fraser was jailed for 13 months on Friday. The 49-year-old used a hammer to smash his way into the Grove Gallery in September 2024 and steal the beloved painting (valued at £270,000), and despite trying to...