On its July 1 deadline, U.S. President Donald Trump declined to renew the current conditions of Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). It doesn’t mean Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade as we know it dissolves, but it signals a need for trade diversification and an investment in Canada’s sovereignty by the new 2036 deadline.

Host Caryn Ceolin speaks to Julian Karaguesian, visiting professor at McGill University and former special advisor in the International Trade and Finance Branch

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to make an announcement in Nova Scotia today, which is widely expected to be Canada’s high-stakes decision to buy a fleet of submarines from South Korea’s Hanwha or Germany’s TKMS.

Carney is stopping in Halifax to make the announcement before leaving for the NATO summit in Turkey.

Both qualified bidders offered multiple partnerships with Canadian companies in the heated race for the multi-billion dollar contract to manufacture up to 12 submarines.

The government and the successful bidder

Rogers Communications Inc. says it has signed a deal to buy the remaining 25 per cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) it does not already own from Kilmer Sports Inc. for $4.35 billion.

Rogers chief executive Tony Staffieri called it a defining moment for the company.

“Our full ownership of MLSE brings together Canada’s premier communications company with Canada’s premier sports and entertainment organization,” Staffieri said in a statement.

“It gives us even more opportunity to invest

Carter Rivers had an epic finish to Grade 8, including a win in the 100m to become the fastest kid in York Region (YREAA) while landing on the Baythorn Public School honour roll.

However, he says his best sport is baseball with post-secondary aspirations as he gets ready for high school in the fall.

Carter Rivers

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TORONTO — Betrayed. Dehumanized. Devastated.

These are the words some Canadians use to describe how they feel about a special government committee recommending not to expand medical assistance in dying to people seeking the procedure for a mental illness.

On June 17, the recommendation was released, stating that there was a lack of consensus on whether it was possible to determine if a patient has any prospect of getting better, and how to distinguish a MAID request from suicidality.

Reading the decision from bed, Kyle Thomson felt like a ghost

Actors in Netflix’s upcoming “Little House on the Prairie” series say the latest adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book series was intentional about portraying its Indigenous characters with depth and avoiding the racial stereotypes that the original text has been criticized for utilizing.

Ojibwe actor Meegwun Fairbrother says the producers wanted an inclusive retelling of the novels that depict a white family settling in the American West on Osage land in the 19th century, and that they wanted to avoid any continuation of “the history of erasure of Indigenous

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is jetting off Monday to the two-day NATO summit in Turkey’s capital city Ankara, where world leaders will seek to avoid diplomatic friction with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Massive hikes to military budgets are expected to feature prominently as NATO members remain under heavy U.S. pressure to spend much more on defence. But in the background, divisions remain over how much of a threat Russia poses and the chaotic foreign policy of the Trump administration.

Gaëlle Rivard

OTTAWA — Thousands of federal public servants are starting a new work schedule Monday that will see them on-site in the office four days a week, though a lack of office space is delaying the return for some departments.

The Treasury Board announced the change to remote work rules in February. Executive public servants returned to the office full-time in May.

Jeffrey MacDonald, a spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, said most of the department’s employees will work on-site only three days a week

LONDON (AP) — The drama that seems to surround Prince Harry returns to the UK this week, and the previews already have the British press buzzing with anticipation.

King Charles III’s wayward son is traveling to the land of his birth for a series of charity engagements that begin Tuesday. But for most royal watchers that’s just background noise.

For the past 10 days, British tabloids and news broadcasts have been filled with speculation about whether Harry’s wife, Meghan, will accompany him and,