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Justin Trudeau and his public safety minister are dining at Mar-a-Lago tonight. Party insiders discuss the PM's surprise trip and whether it will lead to the end of Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariff threat.

Trudeau flies to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump: Political Pulse Panel

Mark Gollom

Senior Reporter

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Trump has threatened to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods coming into the U.S. But his threat has raised questions as to whether Canada has any kind of leverage to squeeze the U.S. and prevent such tariff action.

How Canada can hit the U.S. where it hurts in fight against Trump's tariffs

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, seen in Boca Chica, Texas on Nov. 19, 2024 before a test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, says he will sign an executive order imposing a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico. 

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What would it take for Donald Trump to declare a win and drop plans for potentially devastating tariffs? It's the multibillion-dollar enigma now rippling across North America. Details are scant but one thing is clear: We're entering a new chapter, where security risks trumping trade.

What's Trump's price for averting tariffs? He didn't tell Trudeau

From auto leaders to farmers, Canadian industry players say patience is a virtue when it comes to Trump's tariff threats — and that the mutually beneficial nature of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, worth more than a trillion dollars, shouldn't be underestimated.

Trump's tariffs would crush Canada's economy. Why some industry leaders are calling his bluff

Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico on his first day in office. We break down what that means, and how it could affect you.

How seriously should we take Trump's tariff threat, and how could it affect Canadians?

Peter Armstrong

Senior Business Reporter

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Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could have sweeping, global repercussions. What would the tariffs and responses mean for the global economy?

What would a trade war actually look like?

President-elect Donald Trump attends a campaign event, in Allentown, Penn., on October 29, 2024.

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Senior reporter

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers will meet Wednesday to discuss strategy as president-elect Donald Trump threatens to upend the bilateral relationship with punitive tariffs on virtually everything Canada sends to the U.S.

Trudeau meets with the premiers as Trump ramps up his threats against Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joins Ontario Premier Doug Ford during an event in Port Colborne, Ont., Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum got a foretaste of what dealing with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump will be like on Wednesday night when she was forced to correct what appeared to be his mischaracterizations of their first conversation.

Mexico steels itself for the return of a hostile President Trump

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum delivers a speech during a military parade commemorating the 114th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution at the Zocalo square in Mexico City, on November 20, 2024. 

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he hoped President-elect Donald Trump would rethink his plan to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada, saying it could "screw up" relationships with close allies.

Trump's tariffs would 'screw up' key relationships with Canada, Mexico: Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks from the Rose Garden of the White House on Nov. 26, 2024. 

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Spare some digital change? In India, many transgender people use QR codes to beg

Syrian authorities close Aleppo airport after rebels breach city in shock attack

Australia is banning social media for those under 16. Is it a solution for Canada?

Australia on Thursday passed into law a social media ban for those under 16 years old, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of the toughest regulations targeting Big Tech.

Australia passes youth social media ban. Now, it has to figure out how it will actually work

Students look at their phones in Melbourne on November 28, 2024 as Australia looks to ban children under 16 from social media with claims social media platforms have been tarnished by cyberbullying, the spread of illegal content, and election-meddling claims. Australia is among the vanguard of nations trying to clean up social media, and the age limit legislation will make it among the world's strictest measures aimed at children.  

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Australia has banned social media for kids under 16 due to concerns around mental health. Here’s what kids in Toronto think.

What teens think of Australia's new social media ban 

What do kids and teens think of Australia banning social media platforms for kids under 16? We hit the streets of Toronto to find out. 

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Maura Forrest

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The provincial government decided last spring to study the possibility of setting a minimum age for social media accounts, following a push from the youth wing of the governing Coalition Avenir Québec.

As Australia moves to ban social media for children, Quebec weighs following suit

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From magnetic locking pouches and blocked Wi-Fi access to outright bans and legislation, schools around the world are waging war on cellphone use. But as Canadian schools implement their own policies, experts say the research on whether the bans are effective is spotty.

There are cellphone bans in schools around the world. Do any of them work?

The committee convened for the first time at the National Assembly Thursday to unpack how it plans to address the issues posed by a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Quebec lawmakers are studying the impact of screen time — and they want to hear from youth

Analyst and journalist Carmi Levy on the technical challenges Australia faces in introducing a social media ban for those under 16.

What tech is needed to ban social media for those under 16?

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Ashley Fraser

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A ninth grader places his cellphone into a phone holder as he enters class at Delta High School, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. At the rural Utah school, there is a strict policy requiring students to check their phones at the door when entering every class. Each classroom has a cellphone storage unit that looks like an over-the-door shoe bag with three dozen smartphone-sized slots. 

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Several Canadian provinces have announced cellphone bans in school starting this year. But how will they actually be enforced?

How will the new school cellphone bans actually be enforced?

The head of the Alberta Teachers' Association says the rollout of new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms starting this fall has some teachers confused about how they'll be expected to follow them.

Alberta's school cellphone ban rollout confusing, says teachers' association president

Manitoba will ban cellphones in school for students from kindergarten to Grade 8 starting this September, while students in grades 9 to 12 will be barred from using their phones while in class, the province says.

Manitoba bans cellphones in school for K-8 students

Students in all Saskatchewan kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms will be barred from using their cellphones in class this upcoming school year, according to a new provincial policy directive.

Educators, students share mixed reviews of incoming Sask. cellphone use ban

Night train renaissance: For a greener trip, Europe's rolling back to the past

His daughter, two others were crushed to death waiting in line to buy bread in central Gaza

Sara Jabakhanji

Senior Writer

Heavy winds and rising sea levels flooded and swept away displaced Palestinians along with their belongings overnight, in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Winter conditions are destroying the few remaining items they have after more than a year of ongoing bombardment.

'The sea took all of our things': Floodwaters devastate beach encampment in Khan Younis

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Hundreds of displaced Palestinian families lost their tents in heavy rains and rising sea levels at an encampment by the sea in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Monday, according to witnesses

'The sea took all of our things’: Devastation after floodwaters hit Gaza tent encampment

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement on Sunday, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said.

Israeli army orders Gaza City suburb evacuated, spurring another displacement wave

A displaced Palestinian man tries to fix a wind and rain-damaged tent, following heavy rainfall north of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 24, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas militants. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Canada's International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen on Friday announced a further $50 million in humanitarian assistance to provide food, water and emergency sanitation services for Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Hussen said that brings Canada's contribution in aid to $215 million since the war began. 

Canada announces $50M in aid to Gaza, West Bank

Canada's International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen on Friday announced a further $50 million in humanitarian assistance to provide food, water and emergency sanitation services for Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Hussen said that brings Canada's contribution in aid to $215 million since the war began.


As many of Gaza's more than 2.3 million people desperately wait for humanitarian assistance and food to reach them, aid trucks are being ambushed and looted before getting to their destination. We look at what we know about the groups doing the looting and the efforts to stop it.

Trucks carrying aid into Gaza are being violently ransacked. Here's what we know

A United Nations employee checks humanitarian aid on a convoy of lorries entering the Gaza Strip from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on October 21, 2023. The United Nations says Gaza needs about 100 aid trucks a day to meet the needs of its 2.4 million people, nearly half of whom have been displaced by Israel's bombardment in response to the Hamas attack on October 7. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nearly 100 trucks carrying food for Palestinians were violently looted on Nov. 16 after entering Gaza via an unfamiliar route ordered by Israel, say UNRWA and the World Food Program.  

Convoy of aid trucks violently looted in Gaza, UN agencies say

Israel’s army has already split the Gaza Strip into two zones, and the IDF claims the northern part is now devoid of Palestinian civilians. Opponents decry this as "ethnic cleansing." While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not publicized the next steps, there’s speculation annexation and Jewish settlements will soon follow.

Israel has deliberately made northern Gaza unlivable, say Palestinians. What comes next?

Conscientious objectors to the Gaza war are still a minority in Israel, but a small group of them has grown more vocal lately. Michael Ofer-Ziv is one former soldier who sees his criticism of the war and refusal to return to it as a way of paying his dues for participating in some of the injustices of Israel's military campaign and occupation of Palestinian territories.

He was an IDF officer but now he says he'd rather go to jail than participate in the Gaza war

Iran will back any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, signaling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict that has dealt heavy blows to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.

Iran backs Lebanon in ceasefire talks, seeks end to 'problems'

Human Rights Watch says the "massive" and "deliberate" forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity, in a new report published Thursday.

Israeli military's 'massive' forced displacement in Gaza amounts to war crimes: new report

Hospital officials in the Gaza Strip say they’re dealing with a growing number of malnutrition cases among children in the enclave as little aid is making it through the crossings and the aid that does enter is violently looted.

Malnutrition cases grow in Gaza, hospitals report, as little aid and food make it through

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Displaced Palestinians make their way after fleeing the northern part of Gaza amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, Nov. 12, 2024. 

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An Israeli airstrike killed seven people late Monday at a café near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Palestinian medics said, bringing the death toll from Israeli strikes since Sunday night to at least 37.

Israeli strikes kill 37 as attacks intensify in central and southern Gaza

As one of the few paramedics left in northern Gaza, Niveen Al-Dwawsa, is often the first on the scene of airstrikes, where she treats as many wounded people as she can. She used her phone to record what she saw while responding to the aftermath of an attack on a school shelter in Jabalia on Oct. 21.

Palestinian paramedic recounts 'massacre' on school shelter in northern Gaza

In congratulating Donald Trump for his "huge" election victory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's social media posts were full of excitement. Netanyahu has reason to be pleased. Now, he sees the man he once called "Israel's best friend" returning to the White House, with even more help for his war efforts expected.

Netanyahu wanted a Trump victory, and got it. What will it mean for the war?

Russian troops closing in on a Ukrainian power plant, but it's already been 'cannibalized' by crews

Sport was another casualty of war in Lebanon. Fans hope they can get back on track

The onset of a ceasefire leaves the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah managing pressing rebuilding challenges in Lebanon in the aftermath of its deadly war with Israel.

After a costly war with Israel, Hezbollah now must tackle complex challenges of rebuilding

A vehicle decorated with the flag of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, drives on a road as residents return to the city of Baalbek on November 27, 2024, after a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel took effect. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon took hold on November 27 after more than a year of fighting that has killed thousands. 

Hezbollah flag seen being flown from vehicle in Baalbek, Lebanon

Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants returned home on Wednesday as a ceasefire took hold, driving cars stacked with personal belongings and defying warnings from Lebanese and Israeli troops to stay away from some areas.

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to hold as Lebanese return south to their homes

A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah will take effect at 4 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET) on Wednesday, after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the United States and France, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire will take effect Wednesday morning, Biden says

Israeli airstrikes Saturday in central Beirut killed at least 15 people, officials said, as the once-rare strikes in the heart of Lebanon's capital continued without Israeli warning, and as diplomats scrambled to broker a ceasefire.

15 dead after Israeli airstrike destroys residential building in central Beirut, Lebanese officials say

Leading Lebanese soccer player Celine Haidar is in a medically induced coma after she was critically wounded in an Israeli strike near her home in Beirut's southern suburbs, her international championship prospects on hold.

Lebanon's 19-year-old soccer sensation in coma after Israeli strikes

The Israeli military said its air force struck a facility used by Hezbollah to store mid-range rockets in southern Lebanon on Thursday, after both sides accused each other of breaching a ceasefire that aims to halt more than a year of fighting.

Israel, Hezbollah blame each other for violating ceasefire a day after truce takes effect

People inspect a rubble in the city of Baalbek, on the second day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon November 28, 2024. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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