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Prime Minister Mark Carney will sit down with U.S. President Donald Trump for a one-on-one meeting first thing Monday morning ahead of the official start of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Alberta. The bilateral sit-down, which the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed will be at 9 a.m. local time, comes as Canada and the U.S. work toward a new agreement on trade and security but have yet to produce a deal.All eyes will be on whether Carney and Trump, who have been speaking directly for several weeks of sometimes-informal talks, can make further progress.In an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block, Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada U.S trade who has led negotiations with the Trump administration, said Canada’s ultimate goal is to get Trump’s punishing tariffs removed.He sa...

The cabinet official leading Canada’s negotiations with the Trump administration says talks on removing tariffs aren’t going fast enough, pouring cold water on the hope a deal will be announced at this week’s G7 summit. Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, says that while conversations on a new economic and security partnership are “frequent and constructive … we don’t have the outcome we want yet” — particularly the lifting of recently doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum, as well as duties imposed on the auto sector and other goods.“I’m hopeful we’ll get there, but it’s not fast enough,” he told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block.“Our hope was that we would have made more progress before the president arrives in Alberta fo...

Canada’s former chief of the defence staff says he’s glad to see a renewed urgency in Ottawa to boost defence spending given the ever-increasing global threat environment, which he describes as “unpredictable” and even “crazy.” Retired general Wayne Eyre, in his first interview since leaving the top military post last year, says the “sheer number of conflicts and wars around the world” has made the need for Canada to invest in its national defence ever more critical.“The rules-based international order that for so long provided the guardrails against large-scale international conflict — those have been eroded, and what’s emerging we don’t know yet, but it is much more dangerous and this transition period is rife for miscalculation,” he told Mercedes Stephenson in the interview, which aired...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 14, 2025 5:35 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Quebec Liberals have chosen Pablo Rodriguez to lead the party into the October 2026 provincial election. The former federal cabinet minister won the party’s leadership contest today after two rounds of voting, beating out Charles Milliard, former head of the federation of Quebec chambers of commerce with just over 52 per cent of votes cast. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once...