25 minutes ago
Trump is unexpectedly leaving contiguous
Verity Stevenson
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."
29 minutes agoMichael Woods
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.
1 hr ago
30-day deadline oregon 30-day deferral?
Michael Woods
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.
2 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.
2 hours ago
Michael Woods
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.
2 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."
3 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. (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.
4 hours ago
Protests against Indian PM Modi successful Calgary
Joel Dryden
Protesters astatine Calgary’s Municipal Plaza connected Monday demonstrated against the beingness of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi astatine the G7 summit. (Mike Symington/CBC)Protests are continuing successful the Calgary portion today, including demonstrations successful enactment of Khalistan, a projected autarkic Sikh homeland successful bluish India.
A constabulary serviceman connected the country estimated astir 70 demonstrators took to Calgary's Municipal Complex Plaza. The immense bulk were protesting against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom Prime Minister Mark Carney invited to the G7. There were much than 20 constabulary officers astatine the plaza.
Officials person acceptable up “designated objection zones” successful Calgary and Banff for protesters amid this year’s summit, 1 of which is located astatine the plaza successful beforehand of metropolis hall.
And portion hundreds came retired connected Sunday to dependable their opinions astatine metropolis hall, truthful far, the different zones haven’t seen overmuch activity.
In Banff, a radical of astir 40 protestors is tucked distant successful a parking lot, retired of presumption from tourists streaming into the fashionable tourism destination.
Modi is scheduled to onshore successful Calgary this evening.
4 hours ago
Trump blessed to beryllium successful Alberta, says LeBlanc
Catharine Tunney
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump to the G7 Summit successful Kananaskis, Alta., connected Monday, June 16, 2025. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)Dominic LeBlanc said the U.S. president has been precise respectful of Prime Minister Mark Carney and of Canada since landing.
“He spoke galore times astir however overmuch helium likes it here, however overmuch helium likes Canada, however blessed helium was to beryllium successful Alberta, however beautiful,” said the Canada-U.S. commercialized minister.
But erstwhile reporters asked if Trump raised his 51st authorities comments with officials down closed doors, Leblanc said helium wouldn't spell into backstage details of the conversation. Reporters shouted backmost that it wasn't a denial.
4 hours ago
Canada-U.S. person agreed to accelerate commercialized woody talks, apical envoys accidental
Catharine Tunney
Canada seeing ‘encouraging’ advancement successful tariff talks: Minister
Canada's U.S. Ambassador Kirsten Hillman and Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc accidental determination are signs that some sides are funny successful accelerating discussions astir commercialized and tariffs.
Two of Canada’s apical envoys to the U.S. conscionable told reporters the 2 sides person agreed to accelerate talks astir reaching a commercialized and information deal.
“Those were the instructions that we got from our side. And evidently the Americans stock that view,” Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc told the radical gathered astatine the edifice successful Kananaskis. He was flanked by Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S.
They said they met with U.S. commercialized typical Jamieson Greer and officials aft the bilateral gathering and person plans to conscionable again aboriginal this week.
Neither got adjacent adjacent to answering questions astir what the holdups are.