TORONTO — For years, Shania Twain couldn’t wait to leave northern Ontario.

Growing up in Timmins, she dreamt of seeing the world beyond the mining town where she spent her childhood singing in smoke-filled bars and honky-tonks.

“When I was in that little town years ago, I just wanted to get out,” Twain tells The Canadian Press.

“We all want to — we want to go out and discover the world. And I did that.”

She certainly did, and then

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources is listing 173 wildfires as active this morning in Ontario’s north, including 12 that had been sparked in the last 24 hours.

Early estimates suggest the flames have ravaged more of the province’s forests this season than any previous year on record, burning through more than 7,250 square kilometres so far.

Most of the fires in the province have burned in the last 10 days, and forced more than 1,800 people

CHARLOTTETOWN — Canada’s premiers will continue meetings in Prince Edward Island this morning, the second day of an annual summer gathering.

All 13 leaders will spend several hours behind closed doors today before speaking to reporters this afternoon.

The talks between provincial and territorial leaders have been punctuated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of a new 50-per-cent tariff on some Canadian goods.

Premiers say they are backing urgent, intense and fair trade negotiations between the federal government and the United States

TORONTO — Researchers hope a new report examining the occupations of people who have died of opioid overdoses in Ontario raises awareness about the breadth of the population affected by the drug epidemic.

The study found that more than a third of opioid-related deaths between 2018 and 2024 where the person’s occupation was known were people who worked in construction or the trades. That’s roughly 1,340 people.

Overall, opioid deaths in Ontario for that time period totalled nearly 16

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Canada by threatening to use an obscure Great Depression-era legal tool to impose new tariffs — and it’s not clear whether there are any guardrails to rein in the president’s power.

Trump on Monday signed orders to use Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap 50 per cent tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods, ranging from hockey sticks and wine to cement.

The new duties would not go into effect until

OTTAWA — A coalition of civil society groups is pushing back against criticism by a federal cabinet minister and Jewish organizations of a museum exhibit on Palestinian displacement.

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, a federal Crown corporation in Winnipeg, has faced a torrent of criticism over its exhibit on the Nakba, the forced displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Culture Minister Marc Miller has said the museum failed by not naming Hamas in the exhibit as a terrorist organization

TORONTO — A baby swarmed by smoke. A toilet of bloody urine. A cancerous colon.

These are among the new series of 13 graphic images that are required to be printed on cigarette packages across Canada by Aug. 1.

This is the fourth set of warnings mandated by Health Canada since 2000, aiming to reduce tobacco use to less than 5 per cent by 2035.

According to the federal health agency’s latest projections, Canada appears on track to reach that goal. Tobacco