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Front Burner The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has sparked a global energy crisis. Is a food crisis next? CBC News · Posted: Apr 20, 2026 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by …
Read More »U.S.-Britain political ties under significant strain with King Charles’s state visit looming
Listen to this article Estimated 6 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves was not backing away from her criticism of the Iran war …
Read More »Looming military radar project creates deep anxiety for rural Ontario community
Listen to this article Estimated 6 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. For Rachel Brooks and her family, life was good on their 40-hectare farm, about 130 kilometres north of Toronto, until an expected letter arrived from the Department …
Read More »Under Trump 2.0, this looming U.S. government shutdown looks different
A shutdown of the U.S. government is looking all but inevitable and there’s growing concern the Trump administration is poised to use it as an opportunity to launch mass firings of federal employees. It’s now less than 48 hours until the 11:59 p.m. Tuesday deadline for Congress to approve a spending …
Read More »China’s looming seafood tariffs just add to ‘craziness,’ says lobster organization
Nat Richard said he was stunned when he learned that China was hitting Canada’s seafood sector with 25 per cent tariffs. The tariffs themselves were not very surprising — Canada had placed heavy levies against Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum in the fall, and retaliation was expected. But Richard, the …
Read More »A look at Canada’s last-ditch push in D.C. to avoid looming tariffs
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds has said some unkind things about Canada. But when the Trump ally welcomed Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillman into his Capitol Hill office, it started out all smiles. “I hear that you have just announced that you’re running for governor,” Hillman enthused. “Congratulations!” Donalds — who has …
Read More »Trump’s musings on ‘very large faucet’ in Canada part of looming water crisis, say researchers
Water sharing between Canada and the United States has long been a contentious issue. In 2005, former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed warned against sharing Canada’s water supply with the United States, suggesting Alberta’s most important resource was water, not oil and gas. “We should communicate to the United States very …
Read More »TikTok fights looming ban in U.S. Supreme Court. What you need to know
The company that owns TikTok goes to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to try to fend off a new law that would see the wildly popular social media app banned later this month. The law would prohibit companies such as Apple and Google from making TikTok available to users …
Read More »Premiers expected to discuss Trump’s looming tariff threat during Toronto meeting
All 13 of Canada’s premiers will meet in Toronto today to discuss top issues for their provinces and territories, including health care, energy security and Canada-U.S. relations as Donald Trump threatens to impose a punishing 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods. The Council of the Federation meeting comes amid questions …
Read More »Ontario daycare operators warn of looming rolling closures
A group of daycare operators are threatening a week of rolling closures that could affect parents across Ontario to call on the province to hold off changes to its child-care funding formula. The group is mostly made up of for-profit daycare operators, who say the closures set for the week …
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