B.C. Premier David Eby said he believes U.S. leadership has “very little awareness” of how offensive their remarks are, like the U.S. ambassador to Canada saying President Donald Trump thinks Canadians are “nasty” to deal with because of U.S. boycotts.   “Do they think Canadians are not going to respond when the president says, ‘I want to turn you into the 51st state and begger you economically unless you bow to the U.S.’?” Eby said in an interview on CBC’s Power and Politics Monday evening in Huntsville, Ont., where premiers are meeting this week. “Obviously, Canadians are outraged.” Ambassador Pete Hoekstra made the…

Canada’s premiers arrived in Ontario cottage country on Monday eager to discuss the country’s ongoing trade crisis with the United States and settle into a plan for how they can work together with Indigenous leaders to strengthen the country’s economy. On his way into the summit, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said it’s becoming obvious Prime Minister Mark Carney’s warning that it’s unlikely Canada can strike an entirely tariff-free deal with the U.S. is simply “the reality of the situation.” “Exceptions, carve outs, exclusions, exemptions — whatever you might call them, that is the reality: that we won’t get to zero on each and…

Oumaima Chouay, who fled her home in Montreal nearly a decade ago to join ISIS in Syria, is the first person in Canada convicted for providing family support to a terrorist entity as a spouse.  Chouay was sentenced Monday to one day of custody, in addition to the 110 days she served in pretrial detention, according to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC). The 29-year-old also received a three-year probation order.  The sentence was a joint recommendation from the Crown prosecution and Chouay’s lawyer, Dominique Shoofey.  PPSC director George Dolhai said in a statement that the sentence reflected the steps “Ms. Chouay…

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and 24 of her counterparts abroad have signed a joint statement saying “the war in Gaza must end now,” while calling on Israel to stop displacing Palestinians. The signatories — who include the foreign ministers of France, Japan and the U.K., as well as the European Union commissioner for equality, preparedness and crisis management — called Israel’s aid distribution system “dangerous.” The ministers also condemned Hamas for continuing to hold hostages captured from Israel in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack and called for their immediate release. They said it’s “horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have…

A U.S. Republican senator says she doesn’t think President Donald Trump’s past comments about making Canada the 51st state are helpful as the two countries are locked in negotiations to reach some sort of trade agreement. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was in Ottawa as part of a bipartisan delegation meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday morning. Speaking to reporters following the meeting, Murkowski was asked about Trump’s taunts about Canada becoming part of the U.S. “I cannot explain President Trump’s rhetoric about the 51st state. That is his statement [and] I think it has been made very, very clear…