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Ukraine is working to resume prisoner exchanges with Russia that could bring home 1,200 Ukrainian prisoners, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, a day after his national security chief announced progress in negotiations. “We are … counting on the resumption of POW exchanges,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.“Many meetings, negotiations and calls are currently taking place to ensure this.”We are working to ensure another start to negotiations, so that after all there is a prospect to end this war. We are also counting on the resumption of POW exchanges – many meetings, negotiations, and calls are currently taking place to ensure this. I thank everyone who is…— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 16, 2025 Story continues below advertisement ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits. It’s part of a response to pressure from consumers who complain prices are too high. The move comes after voters in off-year elections earlier this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey.The president signed the executive order after announcing that the U.S. had reached framework agreements with Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina designed to ease import levies on agricultural products produced in those countries.Friday’s executive order amends his April 2 move to impose global “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries due to what he decla...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his office will not say if his caucus will be whipped by party leadership and urged to vote against Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget next week — a vote that could trigger another election if the minority government falls. Asked by reporters in Calgary on Friday if he was confident that all his members of Parliament would vote against the budget in the House of Commons on Monday, Poilievre wouldn’t directly answer.“One hundred per cent of our MPs oppose the costly Carney credit card budget, that is going to drive up the cost of food, housing and living for Canadians,” he said.While Poilievre is confident his caucus opposes the budget, not all his MPs have shown their opposition when it counts most in the House of Commons. Four Conservative MPs did...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has “limited room to cut taxes” with the fiscal deficit projected to balloon after Budget 2025, a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office said on Thursday. The PBO published its independent assessment of Budget 2025, highlighting “financial pressures and concerns about transparency.”“According to the PBO, the Government has limited room to cut taxes or increase spending if it wants to keep the federal debt-to-GDP ratio in 2055–56 at or below its current level,” the PBO said in a press release accompanying the report.The debt-to-GDP ratio is an economic metric that measures a country’s debt against the total value of goods and services produced in the country. 4:47 ...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 13, 2025 5:11 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she’s on board with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s second batch of key major projects picked out for potential fast-track approval. Carney announced Thursday seven additional major energy and infrastructure projects were being referred to the government’s major projects office.Those projects include a nickel mine in northern Ontario, a hydroelectric project in Iqaluit, and a transmission line and an LNG project that are both in northwest British Columbia. ...

Canada is taking “positive” steps to boost its defence spending and military presence in Europe, but Canadians themselves need to take collective responsibility toward national security to counter growing threats from nations like Russia, Latvia’s envoy says. In an interview with Global News in Vancouver, Kaspars Ozoliņš, Latvia’s ambassador to Canada, said “unfriendly countries” are not limited to geography as a means to influence or attack other nations, using everything from cyberattacks to disinformation. That requires businesses and civil society to defend critical infrastructure alongside government and military forces, he stressed.“It’s not just about whether you spend two per cent or five per cent (of GDP on defence),” he said.“There is an increased understanding (in Latvia) that i...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Terrace, B.C., Thursday to announce the next batch of major projects the government is submitting for possible fast-track approval. A senior Ontario government source tells The Canadian Press the Crawford Nickel Project will be among the projects Carney announces he is forwarding to the new Major Projects Office.Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday he was pleased to hear the project was among those selected, but lamented the lack of progress on other projects.“Let’s get out of our way when it comes to the Ring of Fire,” Ford said, referring to planned mining projects in northern Ontario. 1:51 Carney in B.C. to announce next round of major projects ...

By Sarah Ritchie The Canadian Press Posted November 12, 2025 5:03 pm Updated November 12, 2025 5:04 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pierre Poilievre gave a blunt “no” today when asked if the recent turmoil in his caucus has caused him to reflect on his leadership style. The Conservative leader held his first press conference since the Liberal government’s budget and the departure of two of his MPs last week.Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont joined the minority Lib...

The prospect of an Alberta sovereignty referendum triggered a wave of clickbait stories on video-sharing sites earlier this year. But in a development that one expert calls “troubling,” content farms that typically use AI to narrate videos have come up with a way around crackdowns on such content – using real people.With the proliferation of readily available artificial intelligence tools, social media users are likely to come across “AI slop” — low-quality, mass-produced and misleading content often seen as spam. 2:29 How AI chat bots are being tricked into spreading Russian disinformation For example, a video that drew more than one million ...

By Alessia Passafiume The Canadian Press Posted November 12, 2025 12:41 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s premiers say infrastructure investments and the state of U.S.-Canada trade negotiations are high on their agenda for an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney will host a virtual meeting with the nation’s provincial and territorial leaders on Monday and the premiers laid out their priorities in a letter to the prime minister this morning. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs ...