The federal government is working to reach some kind of agreement with the U.S. ahead of Aug. 19, when U.S. President Donald Trump claims he will put 50 per cent tariffs on many Canadian goods. Canada is reportedly open to concessions to get a deal done, but to what extent is unclear. Mackenzie Gray explains where Canada-U.S. trade talks stand with just over a week until Trump’s deadline. | Global National
Ottawa plans to slash costs to send steel between provinces and territories for the next year in a bid to help domestic producers hit hard by tariffs. Transportation Minister Steven MacKinnon is announcing a $100-million rebate plan today to pay back manufacturers for half the freight costs to send eligible steel products across the country by rail or marine shipping. | Globalnews.ca
The Scarborough North MP, who has represented the riding since 2015, issued a statement on social media Monday saying injuries sustained in the accident left him with “significant health issues” which have prevented him from travelling to Ottawa as often as the job requires. “After discussing the situation with my family, I have decided that it is best for me to step down as a member of Parliament,” Chen said in the statement. | Global News
Le conservateur, natif de Chicoutimi, a évoqué son porte-à-porte, qu’il a commencé dans son comté électoral, et de quoi les gens lui parlent le plus. « Les gens, ils nous dénoncent deux choses: le fait que des élections se tiennent en pleine période estivale - ça n’a pas de maudit bon sens - et aussi le coût de la vie. Un foyer sur deux nous répètent cela. Quand on est obligé de diminuer nos projets de vacances parce que l’essence coût très cher…le panier d’épicerie qui coûte cher lui aussi, ensuite les matériaux de construction…tout coûte cher. Ça, il va falloir absolument s’attaquer à ce problème-là à partir du moment où on va prendre le pouvoir et aussi de continuer à dénoncer la situation actuelle. », indique-t-il. | Le Réveil
GAC said some matters were addressed through early reviews, fact-finding, or informal resolution rather than a formal investigation. The report does not specify how many of the 227 complaints or allegations followed each route, or how many remained unresolved overall at the end of the reporting year. Beyond the aggregate figures, the report includes anonymized examples of founded cases and the disciplinary measures that followed. Three employees were terminated after using their employment status to engage in serious unlawful activities that GAC said were potentially criminal. | The Hill Times
This one pager aim to offer an overview of the benzodiazepine landscape in Canada based on samples submitted to DAS laboratories between 2017 to 2026. The main take of the document is that the presence of benzodiazepines in Canada’s illicit drug supply has shifted over the past decade. Samples containing benzodiazepines increased sharply in 2020 (+40.1%) and peaked in 2021 (+119.6%). Following this peak, detections have declined year over year, decreasing by 16.6% in 2024 and 28.3% in 2025. | Open Government Portal
Fréchette says that the province first wants to see gains on the trade front. As an example, the first says she’d like to see reductions in tariff barriers for key sectors such as forestry, aluminum, and manufacturing. | Globalnews.ca
Alors que Mme Myrand a été à la tête de l’Association des microbrasseries du Québec pendant 10 ans, M. Veillette est un ancien journaliste, mais également l’actuel attaché politique de Marie-Louise Tardif. De plus, Simon Allaire, actuel député dans Maskinongé, sera à nouveau candidat dans sa circonscription. On se souviendra que ce dernier avait annoncé en mars dernier qu’il ne souhaitait pas solliciter un nouveau mandat comme député dans Maskinongé. | le Nouveilliste
An Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump prompted an extraordinary operation last month in which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, The Washington Post has learned. The clandestine mission, which has not been reported previously, was carried out unbeknownst to journalists and some White House staff members who believed they were on the same plane as the president, according to material reviewed by The Post, a U.S. official familiar with the operation and another person with knowledge of the president’s travel. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the matter. | WaPo (🎁 link)
In an interview with Meet the Press, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed discusses his message to moderate Democrats and how he’s handling attacks from Republicans heading into the general election. | Meet the Press
Stockpiles of key air defense systems have been particularly depleted during the war with Iran. The US military has burned through nearly four-fifths of its THAAD missile inventory compared to pre-war numbers and roughly half of its Patriot interceptors since the start of the war, according to two sources familiar with the latest inventory report. The disclosure of the low THAAD inventory has not been previously reported. | CNN Politics
Short-form vertical video is quickly becoming a key format for telling all types of news stories — and data journalism is no exception. As a data journalist, I wanted to know how these outlets use this new and evolving digital video format to create “data shorts”: short-form social media videos in a vertical, reel-style format, that analyses or reports on specific datasets or newly released data. At Global News, we’re making a big push into what we call “YTS” — or YouTube Shorts, vertical videos a la Tiktok or Instagram Reels — to leverage our YouTube audience which, at 4.91 million subscribers, is the most popular Canadian news organization on YouTube (CBC = 4.7m subs; CTV = 2.37m). I’ll be looking to tips in this primer for some ideas to move some political and economic data out there! | Online Journalism Blog
We, USA TODAY CO. (formerly Gannett) workers represented by The NewsGuild-CWA, were shocked to learn that our company has partnered with Palantir. While USA TODAY CO. CEO Mike Reed championed this partnership as a way to drive revenue, we believe it threatens to undermine trust in our news outlets and raises serious questions about the data security of our readers. We have significant ethical issues with Palantir, whose artificial intelligence (A.I.) software has been used to advance widespread surveillance and power immigration crackdowns. Not only does partnering with Palantir, a major player in the news we cover, create an inherent conflict of interest, but it fails the journalists who have been assaulted and falsely arrested while covering immigration enforcement actions and protests. | The NewsGuild-CWA
Here’s Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word vision for the future … : We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence beyond human capacity to create and discover extraordinary new things, build new businesses, express new ideas, learn new concepts, and advance our health and quality of life. As we get closer to this moment, it is important to develop a philosophy for how we can best use superintelligence to ensure it improves all of our lives, work, communities, freedom and safety. The defining questions of our age are who will have access to superintelligence and what will we direct it towards. Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone? | Meta
Meta is taking a stance on one of the biggest debates shaping the future of artificial intelligence: Should AI models be open for anyone to tinker with and modify, or should they be tightly controlled by the companies making them? For Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the answer is clearly the former. The tech giant on Monday launched a new “open-weight model” — which has parameters that users can customize to adjust how the AI performs or responds — called Glimmer. | CNN Business
0800 ET : Moncton, NB - LPC MP Ginette Petitpas--Taylor makes an infrastructure funding announcement.
0945 ET : Quebec City - Secretary of State Nathalie Provost and LPC MP Jean-Yves Duclos makes a funding announcement
1000 ET : Guelph, ON - LPC MP Dominique O’Rourke makes an infrastructure funding announcement.
1200 ET : Hamilton, ON - LPC MP Lisa Hepfner hosts a constituency meeting.
1215 ET : Tsuut’ina, AB - Indigenous Services Min Mandy Gull-Masty speaks about a federal skills development program.
1330 ET : Fredericton - LPC MP Annie Koutrakis speaks about foreign credential recognition.
1330 ET : Morell, PE - Fisheries Min Joanne Thompson makes a funding announcement
1900 ET : Toronto - NDP Leader Avi Lewis campaigns in the riding of Beaches--East York.
… in 1971. Sc 553 Paul Kane. Design: William Rueter.
Issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of artist Paul Kane (1810-1871). This stamp features Kane’s work Indian Encampment on Lake Huron (1850)
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