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Danielle Smith to take part in virtual town hall on AI data centre development in Alberta
Tonight is third of four town halls Alberta’s government organized to explain its approach to attracting and r…

Fréchette expected to trigger start of Quebec election campaign today
Coalition Avenir Québec will be seeking another mandate after eight years in power

Ottawa removes seafood and fish products from countertariff list
Finance Canada says move is to protect against broader economic harm after it received industry feedback

The art of inflicting pain: How to select targets for Canada's counter-tariffs
Canada must balance many different considerations when selecting which U.S. products to tariff in order to cau…

Read the full transcript of U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer's interview with CBC News
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer spoke with CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton on …

PM Carney to address European Parliament as Conservatives demand emergency debate
Mark Carney will travel to Europe next month to address the European Parliament before the Canadian House of C…

New Brunswick to review fracking ban in face of trade war pressures, premier says
Premier Susan Holt says she’s looking ‘at all options’ to support growth in her province

Trump's top trade negotiator disputes Canadian assertion that U.S. made last-minute demands
The Trump administration's top trade negotiator on Wednesday disputed Ottawa's assertion that last-minute dema…

Loblaw is bringing back country of origin labels amid ‘Buy Canadian’ push
Loblaw is also bringing back the 'T' symbol that denotes which products have Canadian counter-tariffs against …

Alexandre Boulerice officially resigns as MP to run in Quebec election
Boulerice represented the NDP in the House of Commons for 15 years but left the caucus to sit as an independen…

Quebec Premier set to launch election campaign Thursday
Under province’s electoral system, the premier must symbolically ask the lieutenant-governor to dissolve the l…

Saskatchewan to tax U.S. booze, but premier says potash and oil are off the table
Premier Scott Moe and members of his cabinet are expected to speak with the media 1 p.m. on Wednesday in Princ…

Is restricting U.S. from Canada’s oil ‘crazy’? Here’s what happened before
The escalating trade war between Canada and the U.S. has reignited the debate over whether to use Canadian ene…

CRTC to implement Cancon rules for streamers opposed by U.S.
A spokesperson says the CRTC will move forward to determine exactly how streamers must ensure Canadian content…

Carney will address the European Parliament next month
Prime Minister Mark Carney will also attend the European Union’s annual State of the Union address by the Euro…

Carney to give speech to European Parliament in September
Prime Minister Mark Carney will give a speech to the European Parliament next month in Strasbourg, France, his…

Carney to address EU Parliament in push to grow non-U.S. ties
U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his view Wednesday that Canada doesn’t have anything that the U.S. needs

MLA Teresa Wat quits B.C. Conservatives, says she can no longer serve under Findlay
Wat says Findlay failed to apologize over ‘serious and unfounded accusations’ the new leader reportedly made i…

Canada’s resistance to Trump’s trade demands offers Europe a blueprint. Will the EU take it?
Canada's efforts to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump are being watched especially closely in Europe, wher…

Alberta NDP urges Smith to cancel separation vote amid Canada-US trade war
Alberta's Opposition leader says now is not the time to hold a referendum on leaving Canada as the country wag…

Nenshi urges Smith to cancel referendum on separation vote amid Canada-U.S. trade war
Alberta NDP leader says Canada has to send a message of unity

What’s in a name? Trump’s ‘Lake America’ threat raises questions about centuries of history
Donald Trump is threatening to rename Lake Ontario, but a Great Lakes historian says the name carries centurie…

Jewish public servants face disproportionately high levels of discrimination at work, survey finds
Jewish employees at the Department of Canadian Heritage report the highest rate of discrimination, according t…

Trump’s plan to revoke visas of 200,000 asylum seekers should fuel action by Ottawa, experts say
Mass cancellation of visas would undermine Safe Third Country Agreement, according to immigration lawyers, aca…