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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Canada this week for his first visit to the country in nearly a year as his country copes with an onslaught of deadly airstrikes.

It may not be obvious to anyone who spent the summer in an actual tent, rather than on social media, but fractures are forming within the big tent cultivated by leader Pierre Poilievre.

The federal government is moving ahead with changes that will exempt a number of energy projects from a layer of its environmental assessment process. At the same time, a senior government source says the Liberals are preparing to back down on proposed changes that would have bypassed regulations meant to protect at-risk species.

With the artificial intelligence boom sweeping across Canada and around the world, the federal government is making efforts it says will ensure Canadians understand what AI is, what it can do and how it will impact them.

As the Carney government pursues deeper relations with Beijing, the Chinese government reports it held a “candid” exchange on military issues with Canadian officials earlier this month.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade official says it’s “unhinged” for Canadian leaders to characterize the administration’s tariffs as a trade war against Canada.

There is just one candidate in the race to be the next leader of the Green Party of Canada after Ottawa’s Nira Dookeran announced she’s withdrawing from the race. Former MP Mike Morrice of Kitchener, Ont., is the only one running.

Canada, a notable objector to the 2003 Iraq war, was preparing to back the U.S.-led invasion by sending naval ships into combat if the UN Security Council gave the go-ahead, according to cabinet records.

Ottawa moved to acquire six GlobalEye surveillance aircraft without assurances they met military requirements — requirements not shared with competing manufacturers. Subsequent assessments identified capability gaps requiring modifications, raising questions about whether the Carney government’s push for speed, jobs and industrial benefits is taking precedence over the military’s operational needs.

U.S. President Donald Trump is banning the import of Canadian alcohol, motorcycles and various other products into the U.S. as of Sept. 29. This latest move in an escalating trade war between Canada and the U.S. comes after Canadian retaliatory tariffs came into force on Tuesday.

Canada, Britain and France say they will ban the trade of goods with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The U.K. is going a step further by implementing fresh sanctions and saying it will take additional action against companies and individuals that support settlement expansion.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning Canadians that the country’s pivot away from the United States will come at a cost, but that the alternative would be far worse.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis opened three days of meetings with his parliamentary caucus accusing the Carney government of forgetting ordinary Canadians.

Experts say Canada’s new tariffs will have an outsized impact on the country’s small and medium-sized businesses, with few consequences for individual consumers.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Bombardier would no longer be allowed to sell in the U.S. unless ​the Montreal-based airplane company starts manufacturing in the states.

Just hours before Canada is set to hit the U.S. with counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of goods, the two sides have no plans to negotiate a last-minute deal, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed to CBC News.

Former RCAF fighter pilot Stephen Fuhr drew mockery from members of the military community after he retired from the Armed Forces in 2009 when he vigorously opposed the purchase of American F-35 aircraft. He’s now in charge of Canada’s military procurement.

Nathan Cooper, Alberta’s senior representative to the United States, told CBC’s West of Centre that compared to provinces that have taken a more aggressive approach, Alberta has come out ahead.

Canada’s federal government is taking steps to designate the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 port expansion in Metro Vancouver as a project of national interest. Environmentalists are concerned that fast-tracking the project could damage the Fraser River Estuary, an area integral to the survival of orcas and salmon.

CBC News recently travelled to Michigan to get a temperature check on how Americans are feeling about U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war with Canada — the state’s largest export market.

As U.S. President Donald Trump fights with Canada on tariffs and his decision to rename Lake Ontario, Americans along the border in upstate New York fear the heightened fight could spell the end of close Canadian ties, to the detriment of their communities.

The federal Conservatives have launched a campaign to engage their supporters and encourage them to vote to stay in Canada in the upcoming Alberta referendum.

Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he’s worried the Canadian government is meddling in the Quebec provincial election, saying there is a “possibility that we are facing the greatest federal interference in our affairs and our election since 1995.”

Toronto police say they have arrested and charged a man in connection to an arson investigation after several cars were torched at the home of a Scarborough MP last week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says “more can be done” to address increasingly severe wildfire seasons in northwestern Ontario. This year is already being described as Ontario’s worst wildfire season on record, with the greatest impact occuring in the northwest of the province.

The arrest of Canadian Biwei Zhang on espionage allegations has set off a transatlantic intelligence scramble. From NATO headquarters to Canadian and European agencies, investigators are retracing a decade of internships and government work to determine what she accessed, what may have been compromised — and whether she was working alone.

The federal government’s new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be “far from benign.”

Ottawa is launching Digital Transformation Canada, a new federal agency which aims to to improve Canadians’ access and experience with government services.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s oil deal with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez is being rejected by the Venezuelan opposition, and by some in her own party. Venezuelan Canadians, some with long careers in the oil industry, say the deal is illegitimate and will be repudiated.

In the latest push of its Buy Canadian Policy, the federal government is spending more than $4.7 billion for Via Rail to acquire and maintain 313 new passenger rail cars from Alstom Canada. This will be the first time in four decades that Via Rail passenger cars will be built entirely in Canada.

The Federal Court has ordered the release of some long-concealed passages of a September 1986 study prepared for a landmark federal commission of inquiry on war crimes.

Prime Minister Mark Carney dismissed a series of recent comments by U.S. cabinet members that challenge the federal government’s explanation for walking away from trade talks last month.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Vladimir Putin short if he comes face-to-face with the Russian president at the G20 summit later this year.

The federal government announced a new framework outlining key expectations for responsible data centre development, as politicians and companies grapple with public pushback to the infrastructure underpinning AI technology.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to visit Canada next week, according to sources that spoke to Radio-Canada.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says one of the 30 Canadian citizens and permanent residents missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal’s border region with China has been found safe.

Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government for walking away from negotiations.

Ottawa’s ethics commissioner found Liberal MP Lori Idlout violated Parliament’s conflict of interest code, but recommended against imposing any penalties against her.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the Liberal government is extending the federal excise tax holiday on gasoline and diesel until Jan. 31, 2027.

It has been 20 years since Canadian soldiers walked into a Taliban killing ground west of Kandahar. Operation Medusa became Canada’s largest battle since Korea — a brutal test against a disciplined, entrenched enemy. Canada prevailed, but at a terrible cost, in a fight that changed the Afghan war and those who survived it.

The Liberals are taking a victory lap after scoring a hat trick of byelection wins on Monday night — but there are still a batch of seats that need to be filled and will serve as another temperature check of the electorate in the months to come.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing back against remarks made by U.S. cabinet ministers who’ve insulted Canada and its military, saying the comments are “beneath their office” and urging them to drop the tough talk and take trade negotiations more seriously.

The Canadian cadet and her instructor singled out by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will be the ones to decide how — or even if — they will respond to a controversial social media post, says Canada’s top military commander.

As the trade dispute with the U.S. drags on after a recent deal fell through, the availability of American alcohol in Canada remains largely unchanged. While it’s sometimes reported there’s a countrywide ban, the reality is far more complex.

The search is officially on for a Canadian team to renovate Canada’s most famous fixer-upper — 24 Sussex Drive — so it’s no longer uninhabitable and future prime ministers can live there once again.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is overhauling the leadership of the federal agency responsible for attracting foreign investment just weeks before a high-profile summit aimed at doing just that.

United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted his country is “not at war” with Canada, then proceeded to mock the threat Canada could pose to his country with “submarines from the Edmonton mall.”

Russia may not be preparing to invade NATO, but something more ambiguous could be coming. Intelligence warnings point to provocations designed to rattle the alliance, sow confusion and test its resolve. With uncertainty surrounding Washington’s response, Moscow may see an opportunity to probe NATO’s most vulnerable point: its political unity.

Voters are heading to the polls on Monday to decide three federal byelections in the B.C. riding of North Vancouver-Capilano, the Ontario riding of Beaches-East York and the Quebec riding of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord.

Political stress is a distinct type of stress that refers to how political events, decisions and actors, can cause anxiety, even depression, and other health impacts. Academics like a team of researchers at the Body Politics Lab at Western University are digging into how people feel, emotionally and physically, about politics.

With the Trump administration’s promise to impose more tariffs on us in January, many Canadians are asking: What leverage should we use to get them to change course?

Youngstown, Ohio, sits in a wider congressional district known as OH-6, which exports more than $820 million US in goods to Canada every year. While not all of its imports and exports are caught in the crosshairs of the escalating U.S-Canadian tariffs, a prolonged trade war could threaten some businesses in those sectors.

Politicians from Canada and the U.S. have thrown varying degrees of personal insults back and forth across the border this week, but the two governments’ trade negotiators avoided getting personal — at least in public. Experts believe the two trade leads are striking a different tone because they have a different role to play as the dispute heats up.

The flareup in the Canada-U.S. tariff war has not only strengthened Ottawa’s resolve to boost military co-operation with Europe and Asia — it’s also hurting prospects of major military purchases from the United States.

The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing it has no business directing Canada’s climate policy.

Canada’s chief U.S. trade negotiator is disputing several claims made by American officials about why trade talks fell apart last week, namely that the Canadian side brought forward last-minute demands on autos and that U.S. negotiators weren’t interested in French language discoverability rules.

The collapse of talks with the United States has added urgency to reducing trade barriers within Canada. But experts say it’s not a simple fix.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Thursday that the federal government is providing $541 million in research funding to a tranche of new professors recruited into Canadian institutions from abroad.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade ambassador’s recent comments about Canada’s auto industry suggest the level at which it’s integrated throughout North America could remain a major sticking point if talks do resume.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” as tensions with Canada worsen.

Police are investigating a suspected arson at the home of a Scarborough MP after multiple cars were torched early Thursday, CBC News has learned.

Conservatives are calling on the Liberals to release the text of the U.S. tariff agreement that the federal government ultimately rejected last week. While one expert argues there is some merit to showing that level of transparency, others suggest it would ultimately hurt Canada’s negotiation position.

The federal government says it has removed seafood and fish products from its list of counter-tariffs and added copper wire and charcoal to the list to maintain “dollar for dollar” counter measures on the U.S.

Finance Canada has removed fish and seafood products from a list of counter-tariffed items, just a day after the government initially hit back at the U.S. with retaliatory measures. For those in the industry, its a massive relief from measures many say could have had devastating consequences.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the federal government “welcomes” the United States “withdrawing” its positions on the French language and culture after U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CBC News Canada’s streaming laws are not a “red line” for the American side.

Canada must balance many different considerations when selecting which U.S. products to tariff in order to cause maximum pressure in the United States with minimal disruption at home. Those include the U.S. elections, affordability and the ease with which importers on either side of the border can find alternatives, according to economic and political experts.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer spoke with CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton on Wednesday in his first one-on-one interview with a Canadian news outlet since trade talks broke down.