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A bet placed on a phone can look like a small, private act, but the latest Ontario student data suggest it has become far more common than less than a decade ago. CAMH’s 2025 findings show that 10.0% of students in grades 7 through 12 reported online sports gambling at least once in the previous year, compared with 1.2% in 2017. That shift puts a new focus on how betting has ...

Canadian students are heading into the new academic year with more than grades and tuition on their minds. New CIBC findings indicate that 76% of post-secondary students aged 18 to 25 say concerns about the job market are influencing the education and career decisions they are making today. That anxiety is showing up in practical ways: students are adding skills outside their...

Stellantis was pulled back into the centre of the Canada-U.S. trade fight on August 24 as investors reacted to another sharp escalation in automotive tariffs. Shares were down roughly 3% during earlier trading before the decline deepened, with Reuters reporting Stellantis down 4.2% by Monday afternoon.

The selloff followed the collapse of Canada-U.S. negotiations and P...

The warning could hardly have arrived at a more sensitive political moment. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has sharply condemned President Donald Trump’s renewed tariff confrontation with Canada, arguing that the escalation makes little economic or political sense with the U.S. midterm elections only about 10 weeks away. The criticism is notable not because the Journ...

Canada’s federal political landscape looks comfortable for the Liberals from a distance and far more competitive up close. Liaison Strategies’ latest federal tracker places the Liberals at 43% among decided and leaning voters, 11 points ahead of the Conservatives at 32%, with the NDP at 13%. Yet that national advantage largely disappears among Canadians aged 18 to 34. In that...