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Daily Update: October 8, 2025

October 8, 2025 | Daily Update

In this edition:

  • Carney returns to Ottawa without a deal to end U.S. tariffs
  • Niagara Parks and Niagara Parks Foundation celebrate groundbreaking of future Children’s Garden
  • Jobs minister urges striking Canada Post union to respond to latest offer
  • Canadian Food Inspection Agency delivers measures to cut red tape in agricultural sector
  • Grocery delivery is coming to ChatGPT
  • Focus on Housing Solutions

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Picture credit: Office of the Prime Minister of Canada

Carney returns to Ottawa without a deal to end U.S. tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney departed Washington on Oct. 8 with no deal in hand to lift U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods — but he left his key minister on the trade file behind to keep pressing the Canadian case.

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Carney during a meeting in the Oval Office on Oct. 7 and said the prime minister would walk away “very happy.”

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Picture credit: Niagara Parks

In celebration of the new four-acre Children’s Garden to be developed at the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens, the Niagara Parks Foundation, working in close collaboration with Niagara Parks, was pleased to host a ground-breaking ceremony on Tuesday, October 7.

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A Canada Post delivery truck on a street in Montreal, Quebec.

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Jobs minister urges striking Canada Post union to respond to latest offer

The federal jobs minister is urging the union representing striking Canada Post workers to respond to the Crown corporation’s latest offers.

Patty Hajdu told reporters on the way into the Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday that the two parties have a responsibility to find a way through the labour impasse nearly two years into negotiations.

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Male hand cutting red ribbon with a scissors.

Picture credit: andranik123 / Adobe Stock

Canadian Food Inspection Agency delivers measures to cut red tape in agricultural sector

The Government of Canada is committed to taking decisive action to strengthen Canada’s economy and global competitiveness. Today, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is delivering on this commitment through a suite of regulatory changes aimed at reducing red tape and supporting economic resiliency for Canada’s agricultural sector.

These regulatory changes were committed to as part of CFIA’s Progress Report on Red Tape Reduction. They include changes to the Health of Animals Regulations and the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations.

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A shopping cart filled with groceries stands in the aisle of a grocery store

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Grocery delivery is coming to ChatGPT

Consumers will soon be able to order groceries and restaurant delivery by talking to a chatbot. 

AI company OpenAI this week announced that it is integrating popular apps into its ChatGPT program, allowing consumers to “chat” with the apps to help book a trip, listen to music or order food. 

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Focus on Housing Solutions

Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year — and it has plenty of lessons to learn from countries where the industry has already matured.

Build Canada Homes, the federal government’s newly launched homebuilding agency, aims to fund the construction of 4,000 modular homes on federal land across the country starting next year. The public-private project — currently limited to six cities — could eventually scale to build 45,000 homes, according to Ottawa’s announcement.

That’s only a sliver of the 4.8 million homes that Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says will need to be built by 2030 to restore housing affordability in this country, but the federal government hopes prefabricated homes will play a crucial role in alleviating the housing crisis.

Canada’s modular housing industry is relatively nascent compared to other countries around the world where factory-built homes — touted as speedy, cost-efficient, and more sustainable than traditional construction methods — are increasingly gobbling up market share.

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Through the Daily Updates, the GNCC aims to deliver important business news in a timely manner. We disseminate all news and information we feel will be important to businesses. Inclusion in the Daily Update is not an endorsement by the GNCC.

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