National Newswatch
June 2026
Continental trade pact set to stay in place as…
The July 1 deadline for indicating support for renewal is a mandatory process written into the text of the agreement and CUSMA will remain in place after Wednesday no matter what the Trump administration does
But there's a very wide gulf between fixing a good agreement and torching it,
I would say Canada did not expect Mr. Trump re-entering the White House as he is right now,
I think it's reasonable to expect other countries to make some concessions, you know, having the access to our markets that they have, and they need to give us access to theirs."
I would rather not have the agreement but I may sign it."
I don't think there's been anything close to a good deal on the table so far,
Carney, Inuit leaders meet in Kuujjuaq today for…
The Inuit-to-Crown partnership committee brings together federal cabinet ministers and Inuit three times a year, with the prime minister attending one of those meetings
Poilievre shuffles critic roles in Conservative…
Solid April GDP rebound suggests Canada is not…
The result had sparked talk of a recession hitting the economy after a pair of consecutive quarterly declines in GDP, though most economists said that label was premature
Carney to travel to Turkey for NATO summit next…
But NATO nations remain under pressure to show up in Ankara with credible plans to meet the latest alliance defence spending benchmark of five per cent of GDP by 2035
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship,…
It's one of the clearest statements of who we are as a country,
We hold that such protection from removal is contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution,
Is this happening in the delivery room?"
I'm not quite sure how you can get to that big group from such tiny and sort of idiosyncratic examples,
Today's news has nothing to do with safety or fairness in sports,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but what about the Constitution?"
I can imagine it being messy in some applications,
The Supreme Court gave cover to a campaign whose stated goal is to deny constitutional projections to trans people,
Sports are generally zero sum,
Supreme Court upholds trans athlete bans
New Tory finance critic maintains Canada is in…
A recession has been often defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and so on that definition, Canada is in a recession,
By most traditional measures, other than GDP, I don't think anybody would have considered us to be in a true recession,
My focus is on affordability, affordability, affordability, affordability,
They have failed to introduce competition reform in a number of sectors of the Canadian economy that would help reduce the price of everything from groceries to gas to housing,
I'm going to be focused on the evidence and clearly communicate that,
Americans' pride in US history and democracy…
I still support our troops no matter what they do,
A lot of people are scared of Black men just because we are Black and we are male. And that's crazy,
It's great to be an American -- regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or whatever. As long as you have that freedom of choice as an American, that's a great thing,
It's a country that really wanted to be different and really wanted to be better,
I love America, but our biggest problem is how we're pushing both sides -- like the left and the right -- to the extremes,
Kara Swisher took Silicon Valley by force. Now…
Show me a big business or tech story, and I'm going to show you a political overlay,
The single most important quality that every candidate needs to have is the ability to talk and the ability to talk anywhere,
If you're a politician, you should be able to walk up anywhere and hold your own,... You may end up having an opportunity, like in my experience, to give a completely different perspective."
We don't shy away from our faults,
We get called by all the presidential candidates,
What we're going for is to be popular among the entire populace,
She'll send me missives unsolicited,
Supreme Court rules states can count…
Canada's former trade chief expects no tariff…
Verheul led talks for Canada during the renegotiation of the North American free trade pact in U.S. President Donald Trump's first term
Miller calls for rights museum to change wording…
The exhibit, which opened Saturday, focuses on the Nakba, the forcible displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians
Poilievre asks Parliament to probe B.C. 'condo…
A price correction is when the value of inflated financial assets declines to market rates, and would mean cheaper housing in the Vancouver area, and possibly a drop in property values for those who already own their homes
Far from making housing more affordable, the bailout prevents a price correction from taking place, preserving high prices for developers rather than lowering them for buyers,
More Haitians will try to come to Canada after…
Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting…
My mother's blood is on that bill. We were always proud of that, and now it's gone,
If you don't vote, you don't count."
Our family was very out front in the media that the only reason there was international attention was two of the young men were white,
Is your wife Viola? We got bad news for you. She's been shot."... No, she's dead,
We're living in a time when America has a lot of the same characteristics of the 1960s that I grew up in,
I am constantly working to pray my way through it, so I can get up and go to work in the morning and do what I need to do. But I just want to ask every white person I see, What more do you want
Anand welcomes Turkish counterpart to Ottawa…
Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan is visiting Toronto and Ottawa after pitching a strategic partnership with Canada
The ultimate nomenclature that is used to describe the relationship is part of what we are discussing, but there's no question that we share a vision for an elevated bilateral relationship,
Canada signs deal with Qatar to strengthen…
PM Carney says 24 Sussex to be restored with…
Trump says Iran violates ceasefire with drone…
Everything costs too damn much under Donald Trump and the Republicans,
If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy,
None of which we talk about!!!"... Shhhhh,
If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration."
A Trump commission urges 'bridges' between…
In many cases the law protects the religious expression of Americans, but government officials and employers often use fear tactics to silence individuals into believing that they don’t have the right to publicly express their faith,
Religious liberty belongs to all people, not to any single tradition, political party, or administration,
To be clear, this does not involve or require advocating ‘theocracy’ or even the total elimination of any separation between church and state,
This way of thinking made its way … into the American culture and courtroom,
In reality, the church and state strengthen and support one another,
Canada has no plans to open embassies in Iran or…
Situation in Venezuela after earthquakes…
Election worker says federal officers confronted…
I plan on using this experience to defend and support our First Amendment right,
I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted."
We just wanted to talk to you about it. You're not in any type of trouble,
ICE should not be broadly targeting online speech or actively monitoring social media accounts without cause and without proper judicial protections,
Doxxing federal law enforcement officers is a federal crime that puts their lives and their families in serious danger,
News, cultural groups want clarity on copyright…
The Liberal government released a strategy earlier this month which includes $2.3 billion in new and expanded funding and sets a goal of increasing Canadians' use of artificial intelligence
Current copyright law does and should protect those that have created material and people need to be compensated properly,
You've got basically a 50-page document that came out and the word 'copyright' didn't appear once, which is troubling to news publishers but it's also troubling to music publishers, book publishers and others,
Copyright is subject to all kinds of international treaties and agreements to create harmonization more globally,
That needs to change because it's the foundation of our ecosystem. If creators don't get paid for creating, then it's a huge problem,
It's quite possible Canada's hanging back and waiting to see where the tide goes on this set of issues, simply because we're just not big enough to be charting a new or different path on these copyright questions,
We know that the government has been working on this,
When the government is doing everything they can to... help support national champions, companies like Cohere, and we fully support that, I think they should ensure that those companies they are championing are living by Canadian copyright laws,