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U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in a week’s time, as he continued to raise the prospect of finally reaching an end to the war in Ukraine. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”Trump confirmed the meeting with Putin as Canada said it intends to lower the price cap on Russian oil, alongside Britain and the European Union, to exert “renewed pressure” on Moscow to end the war it started more than three-and-a-half years ago with its invasion.Friday also ma...

A national advocacy group is threatening Nova Scotia with legal action over its decision to restrict travel in the woods, a policy that Premier Tim Houston said was necessary to blunt a brutal wildfire season. The Canadian Constitutional Foundation, which supports legal challenges across the country generally relating to Charter rights, is behind the legal threat, which claims Nova Scotia has overstepped.The group said it supports a provincial burn ban, but Houston’s prohibition on hiking, camping, fishing and picnicking in the woods is a step too far.“We’re creating a culture where we value safety above any other value, including our fundamental freedoms, our freedom to move around our communities,” Christine Van Geyn, the CCF’s litigation director, told Global News. ...

The Conservative Party’s 2025 federal campaign chief Jenni Byrne says not realizing sooner that leader Pierre Poilievre was in trouble in his riding remains one of her main regrets from the election. “I do wish that we had seen what was happening in Pierre’s riding sooner than what we did,” Byrne said in an interview on the “Beyond a Ballot” podcast this week.In the interview, Byrne’s first since the April election, she spoke about the campaign and what’s next for her following her time as one of Poilievre’s top advisers.The longtime political strategist, who also served as an adviser to former prime minister Stephen Harper during his years in government, told the podcast that despite her regret about not recognizing trouble in Poilievre’s riding, she isn’t sure they could have done much a...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he is ready and willing to amp up his efforts to bring state Democrats, who fled to other parts of the U.S. to block redistricting legislation, back to Texas. Speaking to NBC News from the governor’s mansion on Thursday, the governor warned that Democrats would have to remain out of state for years to prevent the legislation from passing.“We are in the process as we speak right now of searching for, preparing to arrest Democrats who may be in Texas, may be elsewhere,” he told the outlet. Many seats remain empty during the session in the House Chamber at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 5, 2025. A quorum was not present after most Democrat state representatives left Texas to break quorum and block a vote on a Republican plan for congr...