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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast. The move comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a new private-sector pipeline that would send crude oil to the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.Marilyn Slett, president of the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, says in a news release that there is no pipeline or oil tanker project that would be acceptable to their group, and any proposal to send crude oil through their coastal waters is a “non-starter.”The group is asking Carney to uphold the 2019 Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, whic...

By Craig Lord The Canadian Press Posted July 22, 2025 1:50 pm Updated July 22, 2025 5:09 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the long list of names lining up to flood the ballot in his upcoming federal byelection amounts to a “blatant abuse” of democracy — and he wants the government to do something about it. More than 100 candidates sponsored by the Longest Ballot Committee are registered to run against Poilievre in a byelec...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says negotiations with the United States on trade and security will aim to get the “best deal for Canada.” Carney spoke ahead of meeting with Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., where he is joining the talks on how to build a stronger Canadian economy and tear down internal trade barriers in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs.“What we collectively, alternatively, can most control is building a stronger economy, moving from alliance to resilience and division to unity,” Carney told the media ahead of discussions with premiers.“That will require support for affected industries: lumber, steel, aluminum, automobiles, particularly.”One of the biggest challenges in the current trade war with the U.S., which Carney has been focused on thr...

Are Canadians “mean and nasty” for refusing to travel to the U.S. and pulling American booze from liquor store shelves amid tariff and annexation threats? That’s the view of U.S. President Donald Trump, his ambassador to Canada told a Washington state audience on Monday morning — comments that drew a rebuke from B.C. Premier David Eby. 2:12 Trump’s tariffs on Canada might be here to stay, U.S. Secretary of Commerce says Pete Hoesktra was speaking at the PNWER summit in Bellevue, Wash., when an audience member asked him about Canadians eschewing travel south of the border in the context of the upcoming FIFA 2026 World Cup. Story continu...

The federal auditor general is planning to conduct a review of Canada’s international student program, which has seen a surge in admissions that critics say the country was ill-prepared to handle. A report from the planned audit is expected to be tabled in Parliament in 2026, a spokesperson for Auditor General Karen Hogan’s office told Global News on Monday.“As the audit is in the planning phase, providing information on scope and timelines is premature,” Claire Baudrey said in an emailed statement.The Globe and Mail first reported on the upcoming probe, which was also confirmed by The Canadian Press.Critics, including the opposition Conservatives, have argued Canada’s rapid increase in international student admissions over recent years drove up youth unemployment and worsened the housing ...

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...