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16 Sep 2026, 11:23 GMT Jeanna Smialek and Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Canada and the European Union have been confronting an increasingly challenging relationship with the United States under President Trump.

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15 Sep 2026, 19:08 GMT Leyland Cecco in Toronto and Jennifer Rankin in Strasbourg

Prime minister speaks of strengthening Canada’s economic and political ties to Europe at Canada Investment Summit Mark Carney said Canada will pursue a “unique security and economic alliance” with Europe as he positions his country as a base to build in the “new global economic order”. Speaking to investors, company executives and government ministers at the inaugural Canada Investment Summit on Tuesday, the prime minister pitched Canada as a “safe harbour” and lucrative home for foreign capital as his government looks to reduce its reliance on trade with the United States. Continue reading...

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15 Sep 2026, 18:44 GMT Alex Williams

Growing up in the shadow of the piano giant Oscar Peterson, he became a jazz institution in his own right and collected an array of honors.

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15 Sep 2026, 18:42 GMT Ian Austen

Prime Minister Mark Carney brought together in Toronto about 100 money managers overseeing much of the world’s wealth to promote Canada as an ideal place to invest.

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15 Sep 2026, 18:28 GMT Shivani Gonzalez

An outpouring of warmth for the U.S. neighbor to the north seemed like a pointed response to the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs and bans on Canadian goods.

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15 Sep 2026, 09:00 GMT Martin Bauman

Former teammates and coaches rave about Brighton’s summer signing, who impressed with Canada at the World Cup Promise David had a five‑year plan. He would score bags of goals, earn a transfer to a top European league and play for Canada at the 2026 World Cup. There was just one problem: apart from his parents, teammates and coaches, no one in soccer seemed to know his name. It was 2023, and the striker was scrapping for minutes in Estonia’s Meistriliiga – a league small enough that streaming services didn’t bother with its matches. He was 22 and already a football nomad. He had been cut from his hometown club’s academy. Passed over by NCAA college programs. Relegated to the reserve squad of almost every club for which he played. Continue reading...

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14 Sep 2026, 09:00 GMT Zachary Small and Brendan George Ko

For a new show at the Frick Collection, Kent Monkman imagines what Indigenous people see when they see fur trappers, General Custer and even Jeff Bezos.

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14 Sep 2026, 01:54 GMT Ian Austen

Canadians back his tough stance on trade with the U.S. An expert says that support gives him little incentive to reopen talks soon.

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13 Sep 2026, 09:02 GMT Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Cole Burston

A 50 percent U.S. tariff on Canadian steel is crippling a major Ontario mill, driving mass layoffs and rupturing a century of cross-border life with Michigan.

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12 Sep 2026, 10:00 GMT Rachel Leingang in International Falls, Minnesota

Canadians ‘angry’ at Trump for suggesting Canada should become 51st state, says mayor, as US businesses see sales fall amid trade war Like many Canadians, Tom Reid isn’t crossing the US-Canada border as often these days. But he needed a haircut. The woman who cuts his hair lives in International Falls, Minnesota – her “sister is married to my wife’s cousin”, he explained – and so Reid, whose duty free shop in Fort Frances, Ontario, has to travel to her. Continue reading...

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10 Sep 2026, 20:35 GMT Agence France-Presse

Canadian PM Mark Carney hosts president in Calgary, where he grew up alongside large Ukrainian community Canada offered support on Thursday to boost Ukraine’s air defenses and help replenish its drone stocks, as the countries pledged to deepen their alliance during a visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Mark Carney hosted the president of Ukraine in Calgary in the western province of Alberta, where the Canadian prime minister grew up among a large community of people with Ukrainian heritage. Continue reading...

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