Trudeau at NATO summit, a slow housing market: Top stories this week

Despite a complaint trim by nan Bank of Canada, nan country’s lodging marketplace remained slow. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was successful Washington D.C. this week, attending nan NATO summit.

Here are nan apical stories this week.

Canada urged to walk much connected defence arsenic NATO main addresses summit

Canada is facing mounting unit to cough up much rate on defence, with the NATO main saying nan existent benchmark representing 2 per cent of GDP is nan minimum friends should beryllium spending.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insists nan position quo is “not bully enough,” informing leaders who gathered successful Washington, D.C., for nan alliance’s yearly acme — including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — that much needs to beryllium done.

Trudeau vows to scope NATO target by 2032, but calls it a ‘crass’ calculation

Facing unit from allies, Canada has revealed a timeline for erstwhile it expects to deed the NATO defence spending target.

But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave nary specifics connected really Ottawa will scope a benchmark he described arsenic a “crass mathematical calculation.”

“We tin opportunity pinch assurance and assurance that we will deed nan two-per cent spending people by 2032,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, nan past time of nan NATO acme successful Washington, D.C.

Canada to thief train Ukrainians connected F-16 combatant jets owed to beryllium flying by summer

Canada will thief lead nan training of Ukrainian fighter pitchy pilots connected F-16s being delivered by NATO allies, which nan U.S. expects will beryllium flying by nan summer.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nan national authorities will perpetrate up to $389 cardinal complete nan coming twelvemonth to “enhance” nan training, on pinch $500 cardinal successful further subject assistance arsenic portion of NATO’s semipermanent promise for Ukraine.

How Project 2025 could upend Canada-U.S. narration nether Trump

Concerns are increasing astir really a far-right argumentation schedule known as Project 2025 could power a second Donald Trump presidency — arsenic good arsenic Canada’s narration pinch nan United States.

Democrats person been attempting to necktie Trump to the arguable initiative and person voters its utmost blimpish policies would beryllium typical of really Trump will govern if he wins nan U.S. predetermination successful November.

Massive AT&T information breach includes calls to Canada

Canadian telephone numbers are among those impacted successful a monolithic information breach reported by AT&T this week.

AT&T said Friday that nan breach includes nan information of astir each of AT&T’s cellular customers, which includes much than 100 cardinal individual customers successful nan U.S. and 2.5 cardinal business accounts.

While nan incident happened successful April, nan affected information is mostly from a play successful 2022.

A spokesperson for nan telecom elephantine confirmed to Global News that calls to Canada were included successful nan information set.

That information is aggregated, nan spokesperson noted, truthful personalized accusation for illustration nan contented of messages aliases in installments paper specifications is not accessible.

AT&T is investigating nan breach and cooperating pinch rule enforcement.

The results are in: June’s complaint trim didn’t revive Canada’s lodging market

The Bank of Canada’s liking complaint trim past period didn’t revive Canadian lodging markets successful nan measurement immoderate existent property observers expected.

The 25-basis-point complaint trim successful June didn’t construe to a surge successful income past month, information from section boards shows.

Experts who said to Global News opportunity nan quarter-point of easing successful borrowing costs didn’t alteration nan affordability image for galore sidelined buyers, peculiarly first-timers trying to get their first rung connected nan spot ladder.

It’ll return much cuts earlier much buyers tin return a meaningful tally astatine nan market, they said.

Some, meanwhile, pointed to an uptick successful listings arsenic signs that existing owners are getting fresh to waste their homes earlier buying.

‘Welcome news’: CRA handling of bare spot filing to beryllium probed

Canada’s taxpayers’ ombudsperson is launching a systemic reappraisal into the Canada Revenue Agency’s handling of bare trust reporting requirements, months aft Canadians were near confused connected if they needed to record nan returns earlier nan agency deed pause.

The ombudsperson’s office made nan announcement on Wednesday, saying François Boileau would look into whether the CRA respected taxpayers’ authorities successful its management of nan reporting requirements for nan 2023 taxation year.

Canadian younker look nan toughest summertime occupation marketplace successful decades. Why?

It’s a difficult clip to beryllium a student looking for summertime work.

The younker unemployment complaint (for those aged 15-24) roseate to 13.5 per cent successful June, nan highest level successful astir a decade extracurricular nan impermanent jump successful nan COVID-19 pandemic.

And less than half of students betwixt semesters person been capable to find a summertime occupation this season, according to Statistics Canada.

There are 2 superior reasons why nan unemployment complaint is rising for Canada’s youngest workers.

For one, nan wide labour marketplace is cooling and businesses are pulling backmost their hiring — a marked displacement from moreover 18 months agone erstwhile nan jobs marketplace was exceptionally tight.

But successful that play Canada’s younker organization has besides ballooned. A swell of impermanent workers and students are competing for nan scant number of jobs available.

More and much young workers competing for less and less positions has led to a “gridlock successful nan occupation market,” explained Brendon Bernard, elder economist astatine occupation hunt tract Indeed.

Silk, Great Value plant-based milks recalled successful Canada

Several plant-based milks are being pulled disconnected nan shelves crossed Canada owed to potential Listeria contamination that has resulted successful illnesses.

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The Canadian Food Inspection agency issued nan nationwide callback connected Monday for 18 beverages sold by nan brands Silk and Great Value. Almond, oat, coconut and cashew milks were portion of nan recall, which was triggered by an investigation into a foodborne unwellness outbreak, nan CFIA said.

According to nan outbreak investigation linked to nan recalled products, astatine slightest 9 group successful Ontario person go sick pinch listeriosis and 5 of them hospitalized, nan province’s apical expert said.

Ticketmaster notifies Canadian customers of May information breach

Ticketmaster has yet notified its users who whitethorn person been impacted by a information breach — one period aft Global News first reported that nan individual accusation of Canadian customers was apt stolen.

In an email to its customers connected Monday, Ticketmaster said that their individual accusation whitethorn person been obtained by an unauthorized 3rd statement from a unreality database that was hosted by a separate third-party information services provider. The information incident took spot betwixt April 2 and May 18, Ticketmaster said.

“On May 23, 2024, we wished that immoderate of your individual accusation whitethorn person been affected by nan incident,” nan email said.

This was nan first nationalist acknowledgement by Ticketmaster of nan monolithic hack impacting much than half a cardinal group successful different countries.

Interpol information confirms Canada is ‘ground zero’ for car thefts: experts

As government, constabulary and different stakeholders activity to combat Canada’s auto theft crisis, a May study from Interpol says nan state ranks among nan apical 10 countries successful hits it has received successful its database of stolen centrifugal vehicles this year, pinch immoderate calling it “ground zero.”

According to nan agency, that ranking comes conscionable 3 months aft nan Royal Canadian Mounted Police integrated nan Canadian Police Information Centre’s stolen conveyance database pinch Interpol’s own. Prior to that integration, each entries connected nan database were submitted manually.

Can’t make heads aliases tails of aesculapian scans? A Canadian female recovered a way

A caller web-based instrumentality called PocketHealth has collaborated pinch hospitals and labs, enabling patients to entree and stock their images and reports.

PocketHealth allows patients to type successful nan sanction of nan infirmary aliases imaging centre wherever their images were taken. They tin past motion up and entree their images, often wrong minutes, he said.

And PocketHealth uses artificial intelligence to thief publication diligent data.

Bird flu is connected nan move — present are nan different strains astir nan world

Avian influenza, or bird flu, has nationalist wellness officials connected alert aft an unprecedented dispersed successful dairy cows successful nan United States this year. Four dairy workers person besides tested affirmative successful nan country.

A peculiarly terrible version of nan H5N1 strain has been spreading astir nan world successful animals since 2020, causing lethal outbreaks successful commercialized poultry and sporadic infections in other species from alpacas to location cats. Until this year, it had ne'er infected cows.

Climate alteration made June power activity up to 10 times much likely, scientists say

The above-normal temperatures successful Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada were made 2 to 10 times much apt arsenic a consequence of human-caused climate change, Environment and Climate Change Canada scientists said connected Tuesday.

The agency announced nan results of its study from its new rapid utmost upwind arena attribution system, a instrumentality meant to find nan grade to which ambiance alteration affects utmost ambiance events.