Some Indigenous leaders call premiers' meeting positive but inclusion remains an issue

Some Indigenous leaders say they had a positive meeting with provincial and territorial leaders on the margins of this year's Council of the Federation gathering in Prince Edward Island, but issues remain with the list of invitees and Indigenous leaders' level of participation.


Lebanon's prime minister visits shattered border village as phased Israeli withdrawal begins

Lebanon's prime minister visited Wednesday a battered southern village as the implementation of a Washington-brokered Lebanese-Israeli agreement began, following months of war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah .


Trump's trade rep defends new tariffs on Canada

U.S. President Donald Trump's point man on tariffs is justifying the plan to slap new tariffs of 50 per cent on many Canadian products as a means of reducing the U.S. trade deficit.


Canada urges U.K. under new PM to reconsider joining global bank aimed at boosting defence financing

The High Commissioner for Canada in the U.K. Bill Blair says the government is engaged in talks urging the U.K. to reconsider joining its multinational defence bank now that Andy Burnham is the new prime minister.


'Rare' contagious cancer found in fish from Quebec and U.S. lakes

It's rare that cancerous tumours can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma skin cancer tumours among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S.


OpenAI model went rogue, hacked another company's system during testing

OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered ‌a hack that compromised the infrastructure of the AI startup Hugging Face last week.


Kinew insists premiers are united against 'common opponent' in Trump

Canada's premiers are insisting that they form a united Team Canada in the face of U.S. Donald Trump's escalated trade war — despite disagreement on how to get him to drop the impending tariffs.


Kensington Palace marks Prince George's 13th birthday with new photo

Prince George turned 13 on Wednesday, and Kensington Palace released a new photo of the young royal to mark the occasion.


Iran fires missiles at Jordan, near Israeli border

Iran launched a missile attack on a Jordanian city on Israel's doorstep on Wednesday, and alerts were issued in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as a nearly two-week upsurge in fighting continued.


Austria turns Hitler's first home into police station, a move opposed by Holocaust survivors group

The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially begins a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria's government ‌hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.