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As the clock ticks on the target date for an updated trade deal between Canada and the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. senators Monday. Carney will meet with a bipartisan delegation of senators on Monday, his itinerary said.That comes as several members of the U.S. Senate have publicly spoken against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.In a press release earlier this month, the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Trump’s tariffs have damaged the U.S.’s relations with a vital ally.“The American people and the overwhelming majority of my colleagues in Congress reject this short-sighted and costly trade war with Canada, which is what I emphasized when I led a bipartisan delegation to Ottawa to meet with Prime Minist...

Ontario’s cottage country is set to become the centre of Canadian power for three days beginning Monday, as leaders from across the country descend on Huntsville, Ont., for high-stakes meetings. Story continues below advertisement The Council of the Federation, which includes all of the country’s 13 premiers, will meet in the small town to discuss trade, energy, immigration and U.S.-Canada relations, among other topics.Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Huntsville for a separate meeting with provincial leaders on Tuesday.Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who will chair his last meeting as the head of the group this week, selected the rural setting, close to his own cottage, to show off what his team believes is the best of the province.“As the Chair of the Counci...

Tariffs and trade are top of the agenda as the country’s premiers arrive in Ontario’s cottage country for a three-day meeting that comes at a pivotal time for both Canada-U.S. and domestic relations. The premiers’ summer gathering in Muskoka will also feature a Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney, as trade talks with the United States are expected to intensify.Most of what the premiers are likely to discuss stems from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs: trade negotiations, the direct impact on industries such as steel and aluminum, the increased pushes to remove interprovincial trade barriers and speed up major infrastructure and natural resource projects to counteract the effects of tariffs, as well as Indigenous communities’ concerns about them. ...

Catherine McKenna noticed the first serious wave of threats aimed at her in 2018,  on the same day the Trudeau government’s carbon-tax-and-rebate policy went into effect. She was then the environment minister in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet and became the lightning rod for opponents of the policy.“Pretty quickly, things got really weird,” McKenna, who left politics after the 2019 election, said in a recent interview.The abuse and threats first started online.“So you would have a clip … then other people would play into it. The algorithms would amplify it,” McKenna said. “You would have bots and trolls pushing it out.”But then, the online threats moved to the very real world.“That was when it really became problematic, where people thought it was OK to harass me, harass me...

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 18, 2025 12:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebec Senator Pierre Moreau is now the government’s representative in the Senate, replacing Marc Gold who retired last month. Moreau will be tasked with guiding government legislation through the Senate in this new job. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Moreau has more than four decades of legal and political experience as a for...

While the FIFA 2026 World Cup is being touted as an economic boon for the City of Vancouver, it may not work out that way for some businesses close to the marquee venue. That’s according to a clause in the Host City Agreement, recently obtained and published by independent journalist Bob Mackin of The Breaker News after a three-year battle.The contract requires the city to establish a “controlled area” located “directly adjacent to the outer stadium perimeter and in which certain commercial and other activities are prohibited on match days and the days prior to match days.”The contract requires signage in the controlled area to be removed or covered, and restricts the public sale of food and beverages along with souvenirs, in order to protect the rights of FIFA’s corporate partners.That’s ...

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a federal prosecutor in Manhattan who worked on the cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. There was no specific reason given for her firing, according to one of the people. They spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.Maurene Comey was a veteran lawyer in the Southern District of New York, long considered the most elite of the Justice Department’s prosecution offices. Her cases included the sex trafficking prosecution of Epstein, who died behind bars in 2019 as he was awaiting trial, and the recent case against Combs, which ended earlier this month with a mixed ver...

The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a major overhaul of the country’s democratic system. The government said the proposed changes were part of an effort to boost public trust in democracy and would align voting rights across Britain, where younger voters already participate in devolved elections in Scotland and Wales.“They’re old enough to go out to work, they’re old enough to pay taxes … and I think if you pay in, you should have the opportunity to say what you want your money spent on, which way the government should go,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer told ITV News.Globally, most countries have a voting age of 18, however in last year’s European Parliament elections European Union members were given the opt...

By Alessia Passafiume The Canadian Press Posted July 17, 2025 7:07 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet today with First Nations leaders about his government’s controversial major projects legislation. The closed-door meeting was promised by Carney in June after chiefs said their rights were not respected by the rush to push the Building Canada Act through Parliament in June.The legislation allows cabinet to quickly grant federal approvals for big industrial projects like mines, ports and pipelines by sidestepping existing laws. ...

Carrie Sakamoto left her family’s beloved dogs outside in the freezing cold. She started fires in her kitchen, and she fell down the stairs of her Alberta home — several times.These incidents all occurred since 2021, when Sakamoto was injured and rushed to hospital after a rare adverse reaction from a COVID-19 vaccine.Sakamoto was hospitalized for 17 days. For a time, she could not walk, talk, chew or focus.The federal government announced a program in 2020 to help people like Sakamoto, pledging timely and fair support to the unfortunate like her who were seriously hurt after immunizations.The program was supposed to spare the injured and fragile the cost and stress associated with litigation.In Sakamoto’s case, the program, called the Vaccine Injury Support Program, or VISP, did neither.I...