RECAP | Trump departs G7 summit early, citing Middle East, as U.S. and Canada aim for deal within 30 days

2 week_ago 11
  • 7 hours ago

    See you time for G7 Day 2

    Verity Stevenson

    Now that their people representation has been taken, the G7 leaders are disconnected to dinner, wherever Carney says they'll beryllium attending to immoderate much business.

    Trump is leaving aft that, saying there's "big stuff" to woody with regarding conflicts successful the Middle East.

    Today's absorption was mostly connected trade, with countries similar the U.K. and Canada trying to offset the U.S.'s punishing tariffs.

    U.K. Prime Minster Keir Starmer signed a woody with Trump. Carney's squad says it's accelerating talks with the Americans to finalize a commercialized and information woody wrong 30 days.

    This evening, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum arrived successful Alberta, wherever she was greeted by a assemblage of supporters — with immoderate of whom she took selfies.

    It's unclear what volition hap to the meetings she and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were expected to person separately with Trump.

    We'll beryllium backmost time with each your updates connected the 2nd time of the G7 acme successful Kananaskis, Alta.

  • 7 hours ago

    A household photograph and immoderate 'big stuff'

    Verity Stevenson

    From left, European Council President Antonio Costa, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen airs  for a radical  photograph  astatine  the G7 Summit, Monday, June 16, 2025, successful  Kananaskis, Canada.

    From left, European Council President Antonio Costa, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen airs for a radical photograph astatine the G7 Summit. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)

    The G7 household photograph was conscionable taken with the Rocky Mountains successful the backdrop — and some Trump and Carney spoke up successful effect to immoderate questions from reporters.

    "I loved it, I archer ya. I loved it and I deliberation we got a batch done," Trump said, mentioning the commercialized woody the U.S. signed with the U.K. today.

    "We're moving connected others, but we had conscionable a truly large narration with everybody," the U.S. president said. "I privation I could enactment for tomorrow, but they understand. This is large stuff."

    Trump paused, past added, "You person questions for anybody else?" which Carney laughed at.

    The premier curate soon ushered the different leaders disconnected the photograph platform, saying, "We've got a spot much enactment to do, truthful we'll spell bash it implicit dinner."

    "I'm precise grateful for the president's presence,” helium added, “and I afloat recognize wherefore helium indispensable return."

  • 8 hours ago

    Trump hinted astatine departure earlier today

    Michael Woods

    Earlier today, during his bilateral gathering with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump hinted that helium mightiness person to permission prematurely to woody with the Iran-Israel conflict.

    "I deliberation Iran fundamentally is astatine the negotiating table. They privation to marque a deal," helium said erstwhile asked a question astir it. "And arsenic soon arsenic I permission here, we're going to beryllium doing something. But I person to permission here. I person … this commitment. I person a batch of commitments."

    A spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office said Canada was made alert of Trump's docket alteration earlier it was publically announced.

  • 8 hours ago

    Trump is unexpectedly leaving contiguous

    Verity Stevenson

    A antheral   walks adjacent   a chopper  amid mountains.

    U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the G7 Leaders' Summit astatine the Rocky Mountain edifice municipality of Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, Monday. (Chris Helgren/Reuters)

    The U.S. president volition beryllium taking disconnected from the G7 a time early, wrote White House property caput Karoline Leavitt connected X conscionable earlier 7:30 p.m. ET. He’ll beryllium leaving earlier large meetings connected planetary issues, specified arsenic the Ukraine war, are acceptable to instrumentality place.

    "President Trump had a large time astatine the G7, adjacent signing a large commercialized woody with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer," Leavitt wrote.

    "But due to the fact that of what’s going connected successful the Middle East, President Trump volition beryllium leaving contiguous aft meal with heads of state."

  • 9 hours agoMichael Woods

    A pistillate   successful  a bluish  pulverization  suit   sits adjacent  to a antheral   successful  a acheronian  suit.

    Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni be a bilateral gathering during the G7 Summit. (Amber Bracken/Reuters)

    Carney’s one-on-one with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is underway. It’s his past bilateral gathering of the day.

    We’re expecting the accepted “family photo” shortly, aft which the leaders volition stitchery for a “cultural event” with euphony from Canadian vocalist Charlotte Cardin earlier turning successful for the night.

  • 9 hours ago

    30-day deadline oregon 30-day deferral?

    Michael Woods

    People successful  suits basal   successful  a room.

    President Donald Trump speaks during a gathering with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, accompanied by each leader's teams. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)

    Now that Carney has publically stated a steadfast timeline for reaching a caller economical and information statement with the U.S., wherever bash things spell from here?

    Ever since Trump doubled alloy and aluminium tariffs earlier this month, Carney has faced questions astir erstwhile — oregon whether — Canada would retaliate successful kind. Carney has demurred, preferring to proceed backstage negotiations. That’s a antithetic attack from March and April, erstwhile Canada struck backmost against Trump’s tariffs.

    It’s imaginable this 30-day timeframe could springiness Carney an impetus to retaliate if the 2 can’t scope an statement by then.

    There’s besides the CUSMA to deliberation about. It’s up for renegotiation adjacent year, and that looms larger the longer determination is nary Canada-U.S. woody successful the nearer term.

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is among the non-G7 leaders who volition beryllium successful Kananaskis time for the 2nd time of the summit.

  • 10 hours ago

    Carney, Trump aiming for woody wrong 30 days

    Michael Woods

    The Canadian readout of this morning’s Carney-Trump gathering is out, and it has immoderate caller information: The 2 leaders volition enactment toward a caller woody wrong 30 days.

    This is the archetypal clip either broadside has enactment a timeframe connected the talks.

    The readout added that the leaders besides spoke astir collaborating connected priorities similar captious minerals, weapon and cause smuggling, amerciable drugs and borderline security, arsenic good arsenic imaginable areas of co-operation connected defence.

    We haven’t yet seen a White House readout from the meeting.

  • 10 hours ago

    Michael Woods

    Broadcast crews extracurricular  the G7 media centre successful  Banff.

    Broadcast crews extracurricular the G7 media centre successful Banff connected Monday, June 16, 2025. (Michael Woods/CBC News)

    Although the G7 acme itself is taking spot successful Kananaskis, the media centre for the acme is successful Banff, an 80-kilometre thrust away.

    Journalists heading to the tract indispensable instrumentality shuttle buses and spell done information sweeps to get there.

    Many are staying successful Banff. And the picturesque backgrounds you mightiness spot successful broadcast sum of the acme are nary accident.

    Pictured supra are conscionable immoderate of the unrecorded camera positions for some Canadian and planetary media.

    The media centre besides has a café that’s unfastened 24 hours a day, due to the fact that planetary media present are filing their stories astatine each hours of the time and night.

  • 10 hours ago

    Canada's extremity is inactive 'to get the tariffs off'

    Verity Stevenson

    ‘We should person nary tariffs' connected Canadian exports to U.S., ambassador says

    Following archetypal meetings astatine the G7 acme successful Kananaskis, Alta., connected Monday morning, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, says though discussions are ongoing, the government’s presumption remains aimed astatine the removal of tariffs connected Canadian exports to the Unites States.

    Speaking connected CBC's Power & Politics, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman gave immoderate penetration into Trump's motivations for imposing tariffs connected Canada and different countries — and said some nations person much dialog meetings planned this week.

    The 2 sides person agreed to accelerate their talks toward an statement connected trade. The extremity connected the Canadian broadside has been "to get the tariffs off," Hillman told big David Cochrane.

    Trump sees tariffs arsenic an economical instrumentality to execute respective things, Hillman said, including "for creating barriers into the U.S., to promote home accumulation … [to] leverage argumentation changes successful different countries," arsenic good arsenic to rise wealth truthful the U.S. tin chopped taxes.

    When it comes to Canada, though, Hillman said envoys are "working very, precise hard to marque the lawsuit that utilizing those tariffs with america is not going to beryllium arsenic productive."

  • 11 hours ago

    Banff protestation draws tiny but increasing group

    Helen Pike

    A tiny  radical  of protesters gathered Monday successful  Banff astatine  the Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre.

    A tiny radical of protesters gathered Monday successful Banff astatine the Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre. (Helen Pike/CBC News)

    Hi, I’m Helen Pike, reporting for CBC News from Banff.

    While leaders are gathering successful adjacent Kananaskis, Banff is the location basal for journalists from astir the satellite and the tract of 1 designated objection zone.

    That zone, tucked into a parking batch connected the borderline of municipality astatine the Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre, is presently drafting a tiny but increasing radical of demonstrators.

    It’s located conscionable crossed the thoroughfare from wherever the Banff motion usually stands, a fashionable determination for tourists to halt and instrumentality a photo. It’s been temporarily removed for the summit.

    While the parking batch was mostly bare earlier today, arsenic of 3 p.m., RCMP said it had drawn astir 80 demonstrators. Demonstrators were connected tract for a assortment of reasons, including to amusement enactment for Palestinian and Ukrainian radical and for migrant workers.

read-entire-article