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Machines do battle as Canada seeks to turbocharge drone, counter-drone industries. The Suffield Research Centre is in the heart of Alberta's Big Sky country, and is also blessed with Canada's sunniest skies, making it the perfect testing ground for one of Canada's most critical areas of innovation: drone and counter-drone technology. Once the main training ground for the tank crews...
Even as Trump tries to squeeze Canada, Iran war's oil industry impact sends billions to this country's coffers. Canadians are well aware of the damage U.S. President Donald Trump has inflicted on this country by signing off on tariffs targeting about $27.6 billion in Canadian products. But thanks to his unsuccessful management of the Iran war, Trump's other hand is...
U.S. president's tariffs have transferred billions from working Americans to big corporations and the rich. "We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before," U.S. President Donald Trump told Congress in his state of the union address in March 2025, one of many forecasts of a new golden age fuelled by...
Another Sikh Canadian activist has been issued a "duty to warn" letter, casting further doubt on the Carney government's claims that it has dealt with the issue of Indian government foreign interference and transnational repression. Inderjeet Singh Gosal says he received the letter on Friday, Aug. 14, after RCMP contacted him by phone in Caledon, Ont. Duty to warn letters...
"Canada's next submarine fleet will secure our coastlines and waters," Prime Minister Mark Carney said early last month in announcing the choice of Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred bidder for the country's new underwater fleet. Patrolling Canada's three coasts will be part of the job for the fleet of up to a dozen state-of-the-art diesel-electric 212CD submarines, says...
Netanyahu flew over Eastern Canada for a third time; the Carney government won't say if it let him do it. The government of Israel told CBC News it sought permission from the government of Canada for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enter Canadian airspace. However, the Israeli government spokesperson did not respond to a second question about whether...
For decades, Canada’s official policy on nuclear weapons has been that they shouldn’t exist, and there is no sign that principle is about to be abandoned. But for reasons of history and geography, Canada is also one of the world's non-nuclear countries with the easiest technical path to a nuclear weapon. And because of the particular design of its CANDU...
Perhaps the most surprising part of the announcement of the joint Operation Hard Ball last week was how much the RCMP's description of the actors involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist differed from what it said only a short while ago. "I firmly state that nothing has come out today to link the Indian government" to the...
CBC News analysis finds IDF blasts caused damage deep underground. Families of Canadian servicemen buried in Gaza say they want the government to do more to protect their loved ones' remains. Some say they would like to see their relatives — the last Canadian soldiers to be buried overseas — removed from a cemetery that has been repeatedly damaged by...
Our neighbours' benign indifference to Canadian affairs seems to have ended as the MAGAsphere takes notice. New Democrat MP Leah Gazan probably thought she was communicating only with a small and like-minded group of Canadian NDP supporters when she rolled out a lengthy acronym during a news conference in Ottawa earlier this month. In fact, she had wandered into the...
DND says country placed 'caveat' on U.S. intelligence-sharing for small-boat strikes. The Department of National Defence says it has safeguards in place to prevent intelligence from being shared with elements of the U.S. military that have carried out numerous lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean. In a statement to CBC News, the department said that intelligence gathered during...
Confusing advice and on-again-off-again airport closures are complicating the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of foreigners stranded in the conflict zone around the Persian Gulf. A wide area of the Middle East is now considered too dangerous to fly, forcing some Asian-bound flights to burn more fuel diverting around the danger zone. Flight radar shows an oval-shaped area about 2,50...
What amounts to an oil blockade poses unprecedented threat to the ruling party's grip. The government of Canada says it is still thinking about whether to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, as the island confronts a looming disaster under an American oil embargo that is, in practice, a full blockade. "Canada is monitoring the situation carefully and is concerned about...
Carney has said he would enforce ICC warrant if Israeli PM came to Canada. Online flight trackers show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace on his way to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday — despite Prime Minister Mark Carney previously saying he would honour an arrest warrant issued by the International...
Russia used Ukrainian separatists as a Trojan Horse. Could it happen here? Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intentions. Some even see dangerous parallels between American efforts to inflame Alberta separatism and the Russian campaign to gin up a separatist...
Crypto, golf deals and a 747 just a few ways the president and his family have benefited. Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado was the latest foreign leader to enter the Oval Office with a golden gift on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump was happy to take her Nobel Peace Prize, and even though it's not clear she'll receive anything...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to the United Arab Emirates next week, as both that country and Canada face questions over alleged links to actrocities in Sudan. The UAE is said to be supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in Sudan's civil war, while Ottawa is under the microscope over the reported presence of Canadian-made armoured vehicles in...
The government of Cuba is forcing Cuban workers in Canada to send it the greater part of the salaries they are paid by their Canadian employer, according to two former workers who spoke to CBC News. The Cuban Communist Party also obliges its citizens to attend “political-ideological workshops” and report on dealings with Canadian colleagues, as well as limiting their...
The group, recently listed as a 'terrorist' organization, now claims it will leave ordinary people alone. The Lawrence Bishnoi gang, declared a terrorist organization by the Canadian government in September, appears to be attempting to rebrand itself in Canada's South Asian community as a group of principled criminals who pursue the wicked while leaving ordinary hard-working citizens alone. The gang...
The man who has replaced Hardeep Singh Nijjar as the leader of the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) group in Canada says he turned down an offer of protection from the Canadian government that would have required him to “disappear” from his life. Inderjeet Singh Gosal of Brampton, Ont., is considered one of the main targets for assassination by the same...
It's been 24 years since what is widely considered the first lethal drone strike: a Predator UAV attack on an al-Qaeda vehicle convoy in Afghanistan just nine weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. The strike killed Mohammed Atef, son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and head of the group's military operations, and made clear to all that 21st century warfare was...
The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping records appear to contradict that claim. The data was uncovered by a group of researchers from four NGOs: World Beyond War, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for...
Canada's relationship with Israel has travelled a long way since 2015, when prime minister Stephen Harper and aspiring rival Justin Trudeau competed to claim the title of best friend of the Jewish state.
"Nobody knows that Canada is charging our dairy farmers," U.S. President Donald Trump complained Friday in the Oval Office. "They have 270 per cent tariffs. Nobody knows that. Nobody knows it. They have up to 400 per cent. They have a couple of tariffs at 400 per cent. Nobody knows that. Nobody talks about that."
Canada is an energy and natural resources superpower in need of a new key ally. Faintly, but not slowly, the outlines of a new world order are coming into view — a world order of large power blocs and with far fewer rules than the one that is now slipping away. It remains unclear where Canada will fit into that...
Intelligence experts say young, economically vulnerable people would be likely target. Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of...
Speaking on borders, economics and security — the 2 leaders sound remarkably similar. It took a while for Canadian politicians to figure out that Donald Trump wasn't joking with his talk about annexing Canada. After Trump raised the idea at a dinner in Mar-A-Lago attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Nov. 29, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc said the...
Hillary Clinton once called her a "Russian asset" — and that was while Tulsi Gabbard was still a Democrat. Of all of Donald Trump's cabinet picks, none have caused so many reservations from within the Republican Party — and that's in a field that includes a health secretary nominee who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, a World Wrestling Entertainment executive...
"Continental energy security" was the watchword of both governments and industry for much of the past quarter century in North America: the idea that by linking the U.S. and Canada in a tight web of pipelines and refineries, both countries would protect themselves from threats and hostile trade actions that — it was assumed — would come from outside North...
You don't have to be a citizen, but the rules on exactly who can vote are fuzzy. The Liberal Party of Canada will be the first federal party to hold a leadership contest since the Hogue Commission on foreign interference revealed meddling by foreign governments in previous races, and there is every reason to expect governments that have sought to...
Trump's demands could squeeze Canada's sovereignty in many ways. It's hard to imagine President Emmanuel Macron of France joking about annexing Belgium. Donald Trump's posts and memes about turning Canada into the 51st state are almost without parallel among western democracies, said Carlo Dade, director of trade at the Canada West Foundation. "This isn't 'Lower Lukistan' and 'Upper Lukistan' calling...
President-elect Donald Trump this week cited drugs as a reason for his threat of crushing U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. "This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!" Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
A meeting Wednesday between India's Narendra Modi and China's Xi Jinping in Kazan, Russia was the first in five years, and will likely be viewed with dismay in Washington, Ottawa and other western capitals. While it probably doesn't mark the beginning of a new Beijing-New Delhi axis, it does seem to signal that India is not about to sign on...
Some Venezuelan-Canadians say the Trudeau government has failed to stand up for democracy in its response to the July 28 Venezuelan presidential election — an election tainted by widespread evidence of fraud and a government campaign of arrests, disappearances and torture of poll workers.
The Liberal Party of Canada is facing a revolt by ministerial staffers, mostly of Arab and Muslim origin, over the Trudeau government's handling of the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally. Fifty-two Arab and Muslim staffers working in the Liberal government signed a letter addressed to "the leader of the Liberal Party" that says they will not participate...
Relatively minor changes to US immigration policy in 2017 caused the Roxham Rd phenomenon. It was 2017 when Canadians first began to hear of an obscure border crossing near Hemmingford, Que., that was witnessing an unusually high number of illegal crossings on foot. Large numbers of Haitians, many of them families dragging heavy suitcases, were flying from homes in Florida...
Canadians are watching the U.S. election campaign with more than their usual mix of trepidation and fascination, as it careens from a near-miss assassination attempt on one candidate to an unprecedented step-aside from the other. Two-thirds of Canadians say a second Donald Trump term would be either '"bad news" or "terrible news" for Canada, according to a poll of 1,43...
Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly had a stark warning Tuesday for Canadian citizens in Lebanon. "If the armed conflict intensifies, it could impact your ability to leave the country and our ability to provide you with consular services," she said. "Canada is not currently offering assisted departures or evacuations for Canadians in Lebanon, and these are not guaranteed.
The arrest in Brampton, Ont. on Nov. 3, 2023 of Amandeep Singh — one of four men charged in connection with a killing that Ottawa has linked directly with the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — happened just one day before a wedding in that city brought together a who's-who of New Delhi's Sikh enemies list, CBC News...
Warning comes as investigators probe possible Indian government links to Ripudaman Singh Malik's 2022 killing. The son of a man who was accused in the Air India bombing of 1985 has been officially warned by the RCMP that his life could be under threat, CBC News has learned. Hardeep Malik, a businessman in Surrey, B.C., is the son of Ripudaman...
Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators believe was tasked by the government of India with killing prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. last June, CBC News has learned. Sources close to the investigation also told CBC News that police are actively investigating possible links to three additional murders in Canada, including the...
The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. On Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced sanctions against Iran's minister of defence and its general staff.
Rob Oliphant, parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister, said he's considered quitting. A leaked recording of a phone call between a Liberal MP and a constituent suggests the depth of the divisions in the government caucus over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the war in Gaza, the genocide case against Israel and the decision to defund a UN...
On Tuesday, the Trudeau government appeared to criticize a jubilant "Victory Conference" in Jerusalem. Organizers of Sunday's conference — which was attended by about a third of the Israeli cabinet — presented plans for proposed Israeli settlements in Gaza. "Canada rejects any proposal that calls for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the establishment of additional settlements. Such...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's position on Palestinian statehood after the Israeli prime minister claimed in a nationally-televised news conference that the so-called "two-state solution" is dead. "I was not surprised to hear Prime Minister Netanyahu share that. That has long been his position," Trudeau said Thursday when asked about the comments at a press conference in Iqaluit...
Canada will abide by all rulings arising from South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), officials at Global Affairs Canada have told CBC News. The clarification, issued Monday, comes after days of confusion following verbal and written statements issued Friday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in response to...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he believes India's relations with Canada may have undergone "a tonal shift" in the days since the unsealing of a U.S. indictment alleging a conspiracy to murder a Sikh activist on American soil. The prime minister made the remarks in an end-of-year interview with the CBC's Rosemary Barton.
The Trudeau government still won't say if it's considering imposing sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the wake of travel bans announced by both the U.S. and the United Kingdom in recent days. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said last week that he will recommend EU sanctions as well.