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Canada does not know what it would cost to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence program, Defence Minister David McGuinty said Wednesday. “I’m not in a position to evaluate the numbers. We’re going to bring a budget out in the fall, and when we bring a budget out we’ll have a lot more to say about what we’re going to do,” McGuinty said on his way into the weekly Liberal caucus meeting.On Tuesday, in a social media post, Trump said it would cost Canada $61 billion to join as a sovereign country but nothing at all if it became a U.S. state.Trump claimed that Canada is “considering the offer.”When asked about Trump’s comments, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he won’t negotiate in public. He has previously said that Canada is considering whether to join the ...

The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday struck down U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada and the rest of the world, ruling he exceeded his authority under an emergency-powers law. The three-judge panel’s decision blocks both the fentanyl and border security-related tariffs on Canada and Mexico and the global “reciprocal tariffs” Trump imposed in April that have unleashed widespread economic chaos.“The challenged tariff orders will be vacated and their operation permanently enjoined,” the ruling says.Trump declared a national emergency on fentanyl earlier this year to justify the tariffs on Canada and Mexico, saying they were necessary to elicit action from those countries to curb the flow of the deadly opioid.He later ordered the United States’ trade deficits...

A day after a court blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the country’s trading partners, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has stayed the court order. In what is a reprieve for the Trump administration, the court granted a stay on previous court orders that had blocked Trump’s tariffs.“The request for an immediate administrative stay is granted to the extent that the judgments and the permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade in these cases are temporarily stayed until further notice while this court considers the motions papers,” the court order on Thursday read.This comes just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the House of Commons and said Canada welcomed the court order against Trump’s policy.“The government welcomes yes...

A new spy watchdog report says an overseas Canadian Security Intelligence Service operation was suddenly halted by government officials, “creating unnecessary danger for the CSIS team” and raising questions about ministerial accountability. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency found no written records indicating the decision to suspend the operation had been made by the CSIS director or the minister of public safety.The review agency says that unlike typical operational matters, the case involved senior political-level actors from across the federal government.The heavily redacted review agency report provides few clues about the actors in question or the nature of the overseas CSIS operation.However, it says the decision to halt the activities abroad in mid-operation cause...

The Heiltsuk Nation has ratified its written constitution through a celebratory feast in Bella Bella, B.C. Marilyn Slett, the nation’s elected chief, called it a “monumental day” that comes after two decades of development and consultation.“It’s hard to put into words how big it is. It’s definitely a day of celebration and reflection on everything that brought us to the day,” Slett said of Friday’s feast. 1:53 Heiltsuk Nation votes to approve precedent-setting constutition The Heiltsuk Nation approved the adoption of a written constitution for the First Nation on British Columbia’s central coast in February. That followed six months of engagem...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is “trying to learn some diplomacy” from King Charles III as Canada faces “foreign threats.” The King was in Canada earlier in the week to deliver the Throne speech and open this session of Parliament.Carney, who was speaking at an event hosted by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, made an apparent reference to the economic threat Canada is facing from the tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. 0:58 King Charles delivers throne speech in Canada: ‘The True North is indeed strong and free”’ “In...

Canada Post said Friday it is asking Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to direct the postal workers’ union to hold a vote on the “final offers” the national mail carrier presented earlier this week, rather than continue talks it says are at an impasse. The statement was released as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) met with Hajdu and Secretary of State for Labour John Zerucelli on Friday as an overtime ban continues for workers.It was not immediately clear what was achieved at the meeting, which comes as the threat of wider strike action grows with little movement at the negotiating table.Canada Post said that “given the level of the impasse and CUPW’s negotiating position, it is not possible to reach tentative agreements in the normal course” through negotiations.It added that “the best...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is confident there will be no leadership coup to oust him from his role, despite losing his own seat as a member of Parliament. Poilievre lost his Ottawa-area seat of Carleton, which he had represented for nearly 21 years, to rookie Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy by 4,513 votes in the 2025 federal election.When asked by Global News on Friday if he is worried about a challenge to his leadership, Poilievre said only “no.”He then did not directly answer whether he believes he is the reason the Conservatives lost, instead pointing to the gains the party made.“We got 2.4 million more votes, 25 more seats. We had the biggest vote count in our party’s history. The biggest increase in our party’s history. The biggest vote share since 1988,” Poilievre sa...