In the news today: Carney and premiers to meet, Liberal MP dropped

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…

Carney to host meeting with premiers today

Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting Canada’s premiers today in Ottawa as the provinces grapple with the effects of Chinese and U.S. tariffs.

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The meeting is taking place just days before Carney is expected to launch a federal election campaign that would send Canadians to the polls as soon as April 28.

The meeting with the premiers will be held this afternoon at the Canadian War Museum.

Audrey Champoux, a spokesperson for Carney, said earlier this week the session would be a chance to discuss creating a single Canadian economy, instead of 13 separate ones.

Liberals revoke Arya’s nomination, after removing him fromleadership race

Liberal MP Chandra Arya says his nomination to run for the party again in his Ottawa riding has been revoked.

The 62-year-old has represented the city’s Nepean seat since 2015.

The decision to remove him comes almost two months after the party also told Arya it would not accept him as a candidate for the leadership.

National campaign director Andrew Bevan informed Arya in a letter today, just days before an expected election call.

Hudson’s Bay headed back to court today

Hudson’s Bay is expected to be back in court today, where it continues to seek permission to liquidate all of its stores as part of its creditor protection case.

Since Monday, the department store chain that holds the title of Canada’s oldest company wants Ontario Superior Court judge Peter Osborne to allow it to selloff merchandise at its 80 stores, three Saks Fifth Avenue shops and 13 Saks Off 5th locations in Canada.

The company’s lawyers have said the liquidation request was necessary because it doesn’t have the funding needed to keep the stores alive, but it will keep searching for that backing, in hopes of reversing its liquidation plans.

Hudson’s Bay staff lament possible unemployment

Lately, Kevin Grell feels an instant heaviness settle over him when he walks through the door at Hudson’s Bay’s east Toronto fulfilment centre.

He and the other workers at the Scarborough site assemble online orders for the retailer. They’ve been anxious about the company’s future for months, but when it filed for creditor protection on March 7 and then asked for permission to liquidate all its stores 10 days later, Grell said the worry became inescapable.

“You can feel the difference. Everybody’s concerned. Everybody’s scared. Everybody’s uncertain what the future holds,” said Grell, an e-commerce processor who marked eight years packaging orders for the Bay in November.

“People have bills to pay and people have mortgages. They don’t know what to do and it’s just hard, because a lot of people are sad.”

Canadian startups focusing on domestic funding

Tatiana Estevez was celebrating her fog water collection company Permalution securing money in a fundraising round and garnering support for a drinking water project, when it was all placed in jeopardy.

Because American president Donald Trump froze the U.S. Agency for International Development’s spending, one of the humanitarian organization’s biggest contractors had to put the funding it was set to send Permalution on hold.

USAID was also due to back a drinking water project from Estevez’s Sherbrooke, Que.-based business.

“It was very heartbreaking to see how everything was unfolding,” Estevez said. “We were so close to the crossing line.”

B.C. landslides linked to logging, wildfire: study

A study has found nearly half of the landslides, debris flows and washouts that occurred during British Columbia’s atmospheric river disaster in November 2021 originated in areas that had been logged or burned by wildfire.

Severe rains triggered a landslide that killed five people on a stretch of Highway 99 east of Pemberton, while large swaths of roads and bridges were washed away cutting off coastal B.C. from the rest of the country.

Another 18,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in southwestern B.C. as the series of drenching storms parked over the area for days, flooding farms and homes in the Fraser Valley.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, covered about 70,000 square kilometres in the region, examining 1,360 debris flows, landslides and bank erosion triggered by the storm.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 21, 2025

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