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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is continuing to buck calls to postpone a fall referendum she scheduled about the province quitting Canada, reports CP.
Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has said the vote projects an image of national weakness amid Canada’s tense trade war with the United States.
CBC: Alberta NDP leader urges premier to cancel separation vote amid Canada-U.S. trade war
The federal broadcast regulator says it will go ahead with the process to put rules in place around Canadian content on streaming services, after such efforts played a role in ending trade talks with the U.S, Anja Karadeglija at The Canadian Press reports.
The 2023 Online Streaming Act passed by the Liberal government says streamers should ensure “discoverability” of Canadian programs, including French language content.
The law says online streamers “shall clearly promote and recommend Canadian programming, in both official languages as well as in Indigenous languages, and ensure that any means of control of the programming generates results allowing its discovery.”
On a Sunday caucus call just one day after Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians the White House’s latest tariffs amounted to a “new attack on Canada,” Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc asked MPs to be careful with what they say on social media and to decline requests to talk trade on American networks.
Prime Minister Carney emphasized that advice when he joined the call, according to one of the sources. Part of the government’s thinking is that MPs should be cautious with media because they are not fully aware of every single detail in the trade negotiations.
Trump admitted that last-minute demands from the U.S. killed negotiations with Canada on trade.
MS NOW Senior Reporter Vaughn Hillyard is outside the White House with more details. Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Bloomberg White House Correspondent Jeff Mason, and former Senior Aide for Hillary for America Joel Payne join Eugene Daniels to weigh in.
The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver a warning to Russia not to attack NATO countries, according to people briefed on the visit.
The trip was spy-agency chief John Ratcliffe’s first publicly known visit to the Russian capital, report Lara Seligman, Alexander Ward, and Josh Dawsey in the WSJ.. It followed new U.S. intelligence assessments, reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, that Russian President Vladimir Putin could try to test the resolve of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with a limited assault on an allied country in the next few years.
Prime Minister Mark Carney was elected on a platform to stand up to the United States on tariffs, and diversify trade so Canada is no longer as dependent on the U.S. as it has been, writes Catherine Morrison at The Canadian Press.
Some of the major agreements that Canada has pursued and signed since Prime Minister Carney took office last year include:
Argentina, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Australia, Denmark, Ecuador, European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mercosur, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Zambia.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham is in Norway, attending the Offshore Northern Seas oil and gas conference, but with his attention being drawn back home, working on a provincial response in the Canada-U.S. trade war, reports Ashley Fitzpatrick at CBC News.
As Canada institutes its own dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs against the United States, in response to U.S. trade action, Wakeham credited Prime Minister Mark Carney for his leadership. He said the provincial government is standing firmly in line.
“At a time of uncertainty, Newfoundland and Labrador will continue to stand with Team Canada as we defend our economic interests and advocate for a stable and constructive trading relationship with our closest neighbour and largest trading partner,” the statement reads.
“He’s getting crushed. He’s getting hammered by his own party right now,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton in an interview.
Statistics Canada reports total sales in the food services and drinking places subsector increased 0.5% in June to $8.8 billion.
Non-seasonally adjusted prices for food purchased from restaurants were up 2.7% in June compared with June 2025. Unadjusted prices for alcoholic beverages served in licensed establishments increased 3.5% over the same period.
Voters are souring on Trump as he plows ahead with economically reckless policy decisions, from his trade dispute with Canada to the war with Iran. Alicia Menendez – in for Nicolle Wallace – is joined by David Frum, Molly Jong-Fast, and Angelo Carusone for analysis on Deadline White House.
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