Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is “walking away from a bad deal” with the United States and will match 50 per cent tariffs “dollar-for-dollar” in industries like steel and dairy.

Carney confirmed he was “reluctantly” adding tariffs that would add costs in some areas for Canadians, but insisted they were necessary to retaliate against United States President Donald Trump’s levies.

“We cannot accept what they’ve offered, and we will not give what they asked,” Carney declared in Ottawa on Saturday morning.

The prime minister said talks had taken place with the United States over the past year, and accelerated in recent days. He suggested his team had been skeptical, but optimistic a deal could be reached.

Carney said Canada’s trade negotiations had taken place knowing the United States’ “signature was written in pencil,” with negotiators still hoping to “strike a fair deal” with its southern neighbour.

“We can’t control the storm that blows in from Washington,” the prime minister said. “We can, however, chart a new course by building Canada strong at home and diversifying our trading relationships abroad.”

He added the United States “asked too much and offered too little” as negotiations dragged on this week.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a post on social media he was “disappointed” the United States had chosen to levy more tariffs.

“Canadians must stand united to defend our country against these unfair attacks on our jobs and businesses,” he wrote.

“Canada cannot accept one-sided tariffs that will deindustrialize our country. Nor can we accept a bad deal. Instead, we must continue the fight for tariff-free trade. Later today, I will seek a call with the Prime Minister to discuss what we can do to fight for our workers, businesses, and economy.”

The tariffs had initially been set to take effect on Wednesday, before United States President Donald Trump delayed them by three days to allow intensifying trade talks to continue.

While the president claimed “we have a deal” with Canada, officials on the Canadian side were more cautious, pointing to disagreements on the finer details of legal language.

Then, in a statement late on Friday, Carney said Canada was suspending trade negotiations and recalling its negotiating team to Ottawa, arguing that last-minute changes to the U.S. position were unfair, uneconomic and raised questions about the reliability of any agreement.

Carney said on Saturday there were several outstanding problems Canada had when talks stalled.

The prime minister said they included:

• Issues with the level of auto tariffs, which vehicle types would be excluded from a deal and how much Canadian content could be included
• The last-minute addition of restrictions on Canada’s ability to strike free trade deals with other countries
• Efforts to restrict “protections of our language, culture and in effect our sovereignty”

Carney said on Friday night that recent progress had not been enough to meet Canada’s objectives, which included preserving broad access to the U.S. market, reducing tariffs on key sectors and protecting Canadian businesses.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, however, blamed Canada for the collapse of the talks, saying Ottawa declined to finalize a deal under terms agreed to earlier in the week.

As the trade talks collapsed, Canada’s premiers voiced broad support for Carney’s approach.

British Columbia’s David Eby said he was in favour of a tough approach and that Canadian “politeness should never be mistaken for weakness.”

On Saturday morning, Ontario Premier Doug Ford — who maintained his silence until after talks concluded — released a letter he sent to the prime minister earlier this week, advocating for “a coordinated dollar-for-dollar, tariff-for-tariff response and the continuation of existing countermeasures.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who has been the most vocal opponent of retaliatory tariffs, said she didn’t want to see the countermeasures.

“My first concern today is for the Albertans and Canadians whose livelihoods are at risk from these new tariffs and counter-tariffs,” she wrote in a social media post on Friday night.

“I welcome the federal government’s intention to provide relief for those businesses that are impacted.”

The prime minister acknowledged on Saturday that Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia would likely see the brunt of the impact from the tariffs.

“The partnership that we’ve established with the premiers is crucial, fundamentally important,” Carney said.

“The essence of our First Minister’s discussion two days ago was that it’s our judgment, as we told Canadians, that we were on a path to a potential deal that would give Canada not just the best deal overall but the best deal in all of our strategic sectors that the price for that deal in our judgment was worth paying.”

The prime minister said, however, he was no longer asking premiers to bring American alcohol back to provincial liquor stores after the deal fell apart.

Carney will meet with Canada’s premiers at 1:30 p.m.

— with files from Global News’ Sean Boynton, Alessia Simona Maratta & Jace Maki 

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OTTAWA – The United States is imposing a 50 per cent tariff on a range of Canadian exports starting Saturday, after the two countries could not reach a new deal before a deadline imposed by President Donald Trump.

Trump threatened the new tariffs in July to pressure Canada to move on a number of issues that were flagged as irritants to the U.S., including provincial bans on alcohol imports, tariffs on some American made auto exports and quotas on tariff-free U.S. dairy exports.

The federal auto tariffs and the alcohol bans, which remain in effect everywhere but Alberta and Saskatchewan, were both initiated in response to Trump’s initial tariffs on Canada in 2025.

The new U.S. tariffs were to take effect on Aug. 19, but Trump delayed the implementation by three days to allow more time for talks to reach a deal.

Just before midnight Friday, both Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said those talks had broken off and a deal had not been reached.

The new tariffs will be applied to roughly five per cent of all of Canada’s exports to the United States, to a value of roughly $28 billion annually.

The tariffs are grouped by three executive orders loosely themed around motor vehicles, dairy and alcohol. But the content of each of U.S. President Donald Trump’s actual tariff lists are broader and not necessarily tied to those items.

Here’s a broad look at what will be affected:

The dairy order:

Milk and cream

Whey and milk protein concentrates, including casein

Bones and horn-cones

Lactose, glucose, fructose and blended syrups

Sugars, cane molasses

Non-alcoholic beer

Essential oils of peppermint

The alcohol order:

Beer, wine, liquor, cider and other fermented beverages

Essential oils of grapefruit

Densified wood blocks, plates, strips

Some wooden tableware

Wood marquetry and inlaid wood, wooden articles of furniture

Skewers and ice cream sticks, as well as bamboo products

Basketwork and other articles

Grease-proof paper

Ice hockey and field hockey equipment, other than balls and skates

The motor vehicles order:

Natural honey

Down feathers

Tortoise shell, whalebone, horns, antlers and other animal parts

Tulips and other dormant flower buds, live orchids and mushroom spawn, tubers, mosses and lichen

Vegetable, tree and shrub seeds

A range of other vegetation and parts

Perfumes containing alcohol and plant parts used in perfume

Various essential oils

Makeup preparations

Doughs and other bakers’ mixes

Bitters

Synthetic paints and varnishes, printer inks

Cements

Candles

Various fatty acids

Vinyl floor tiles

Non-plastic office supplies

Plastic furniture fittings

Household and toilet articles, tableware, kitchenware

Dog leashes and saddles

Luggage and other cases, such as for musical instruments

Various fibreboard, laminate and plywood sheets

Various paper, wallpaper, binders, paper pulp products

Silk, yarn, carpet and other various textiles

T-shirts, sweaters, trousers, dresses, gloves, coats and other clothing items of various materials

Wigs, false beards, eyebrows of synthetic textile materials

Glass packing materials

Non-industrial diamonds, not set

Various gold, silver and imitation jewelry

A range of power tools and equipment

Armoured safes, locks and lockboxes

Brewery machinery

Refrigerating or freezing furniture and equipment

Vacuums

Smartphones and other recording devices

Devices containing semiconductors for data transmission and storage

Cameras and projectors

Radar equipment and antennae, optical fibre cables

Motorcycles fitted with an engine capacity of 800 cc or greater

Floating docks, vessels and rafts

Furniture seats and parts made of wood, plastic and metal with a range of outlined uses and exemptions

Chandeliers and lamps

Toys, puzzles and models

Video game consoles

Christmas and other festival decorations

Ice skates, golf and gym equipment

Swimming pools, wading pools and parts

Fishing rods and parts

Paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures of various ages

Postage stamps and other collectors’ pieces

Antiques of an age exceeding 100 years but not exceeding 250 years

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 22, 2026.

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Janice Lyons was upstairs in her Summerland, B.C., home when there was a flash at her doorbell, which lights up in her Deaf household in place of a chime.

The 74-year-old came downstairs to find her neighbour Larry at the front door. He pointed to the black clouds on the horizon and wiggled his fingers to pantomime a fire. It was bad, he seemed to be saying, but he was not leaving yet.

Back inside, Lyons said there was no mention of the fire on her TV or an alert on her phone. She did not realize it yet, but the Bald Range fire was on a blistering path toward her community.

Lyons stayed awake with her husband, who is also Deaf and uses a walker, as she tried to piece together what was happening. When the doorbell flashed again about four hours later, close to midnight, Larry had returned and this time he looked far more panicked. Ash rained down from the sky as he showed her a piece of paper with the name of an evacuation registration centre in nearby Penticton.

“He’s gesturing, no, no bad, bad. Get going,” Lyons said in an interview, through an interpreter.

“If Larry never came to tell me, I have no idea” what would have happened, she said.

Lyons’ experience earlier this month is illustrative of the persistent accessibility gaps in Canada, where surveys indicate roughly one in four people have at least one disability. As wildfires, floods and storms grow more intense and frequent due to climate change, researchers and advocates say evacuation procedures are still largely built around the assumption that everyone can hear the sirens, understand the alert, drive themselves to safety or line up to register at a shelter. Globally, people with disabilities are far more likely to be killed in a disaster than others, studies indicate.

The issue is getting harder to ignore. More than 670,000 people in Canada were evacuated between 1990 and 2020, mostly from floods and wildfires, and some estimates suggest that rate could triple by 2030. Yet, research finds Canadians with disabilities rate evacuation plans as mediocre or poor.

Accessibility is often recognized in principle but rarely built into emergency plans in concrete ways, said Tabassum Zarin, a co-author of a recent study of inclusive B.C. wildfire evacuations.

That research found creating enforceable provincial standards, such as requiring alerts to be delivered in multiple accessible formats and ensuring shelters are accessible, could help address those gaps. It also pointed to a greater role for people with disabilities in designing those policies in the first place.

“If emergency systems are designed from the beginning with accessibility in mind, they’re more safe and effective for everyone,” said Zarin.

The researchers stressed that their findings were not a criticism of local emergency managers, many of whom are responsible for large remote regions with limited staff and resources.

“The goal isn’t perfection because it’s hard to implement that for different communities, different needs. But it’s reducing predictable barriers that we already know exists,” said Zarin.

Predictable barriers showed up several times during Lyons’ evacuation.

After she packed up her car with her three dogs — who are also deaf — she headed for the registration centre in Penticton. There were no interpreters there and Lyons, whose first language is American Sign Language, struggled to communicate with staff through pen and paper, she said. When her husband tried to register for evacuation aid by phone, through a free interpretation service used widely by Deaf Canadians, he was told it had to be done in person, even if an interpreter was unlikely to be available. The wildfire briefings broadcast throughout the week were held without ASL interpretation.

In a statement, B.C.’s emergency management and climate readiness ministry said it recognizes people with disabilities can face added barriers during evacuations. It said its emergency management legislation requires planning to consider disability, among other factors.

“This represents a shift toward mandatory inclusion of disability and equity considerations in emergency planning throughout B.C., rather than a patchwork approach,” read the statement.

Accessibility shortcomings can mask the full extent of the problem, says Vinu Abraham Chetipurackal, who is Deaf and sits on the province’s accessibility advisory committee. Deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing residents make informal arrangements with friends or family outside wildfire zones, plans that only work if there is support nearby. Since some may never register with emergency support services, they don’t appear on the evacuee counts, and their experience never shows up on a post-incident review.

When people can’t access evacuation centres, it’s not just a safety issue, it’s also a visibility issue, he said.

Those same dynamics tend to repeat themselves for people with different disabilities, not just within the Deaf community, says Evan Wicklund, a senior researcher with the Manitoba-based disability organization Eviance.

Communication is only part of the challenge. People with disabilities may depend on powered wheelchairs, support workers, oxygen equipment and backup batteries, all of which can be harder to access during an evacuation, he said.

Governments too often treat wildfire or flood as “one-offs” rather than a recurring risk that demands the same advance planning people with disabilities are told to do for themselves, said Wicklund.

“We know it’s cyclical and this will happen again, and we need to be much more robust in our planning, our preparedness and our mitigation afterwards,” said Wicklund. Eviance is co-leading a multi-year, federally funded research project about accessibility barriers during climate emergencies.

When people with disabilities do show up in post-incident reviews, the reports are often grim. A review of the 2023 Northwest Territories fire season found vulnerable residents were not adequately prioritized. Some participants described the operation as an “evacuation of privilege,” reporting that people with disabilities and the elderly waited hours and sometimes all day for evacuation flights, only to be sent home and told to try again the next day. Some individuals with what the report called unique needs, which included language barriers or addictions, were not located for days or even weeks after a fire.

One challenge is knowing who may need help before an evacuation is declared. In response, some municipalities have looked to voluntary registries.

For Lisa Tssessaze, whose 57-year-old brother Dean Keinberger is on a registry, it offers some reassurance. Keinberger lives independently in Fort McMurray, Alta., but struggles to read and write and leans on Tssessaze for support, she said.

After the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo created its own registry run through the fire department. Eligible residents, many of whom live independently, meet with an official to discuss their needs in advance and are provided with training about what to do in case of an emergency, plus a bag loaded with some evacuation basics, such as a blanket and a flashlight radio.

Emergency officials can use that information to identify who needs help and what resources are required, such as accessible buses and ambulances. In some cases, registrants are moved ahead of a full-scale evacuation.

Jasper, Alta., Halifax, and East Kootenay, B.C., are among the communities who have followed suit.

The voluntary program costs Wood Buffalo the equivalent of about half a full-time employee, plus the kits, officials say. About 200 registrants were enrolled as of last summer.

Keinberger, an avid Edmonton Oilers fan who enjoys keeping up with the news and has worked at Canadian Tire for years, agreed to be interviewed but asked not to be recorded. When asked what he thought of the registry, he said it was good. He said he better understood what to do during an evacuation after speaking with officials as part of the registry onboarding.

Before Keinberger joined the registry, a major 2020 flood left Tssessaze scrambling to reach him. She said she eventually persuaded officials to let her through barricades so she could check on him.

She has since moved away from Fort McMurray and takes comfort in knowing emergency officials are aware of her brother’s needs.

“I find it very helpful,” she said. “There’s other people with my brother’s interest in mind in case of emergencies.”

While the registry works for some, advocates and researchers caution it’s not a panacea. Some noted there are privacy concerns with a registry, especially if it’s held by police. Others noted people with disabilities are already heavily documented by service providers and may be reluctant to sign up.

It may also give registrants a false sense of security if they assume it will guarantee them an immediate response in a fast-moving emergency, said Erin O’Connell, a University of Waterloo associate professor and co-author of the accessibility paper on B.C.’s wildfire response.

“They have to be done very carefully in a way that is actually realistic in terms of what first responders are able to provide so that people don’t have unrealistic expectations of what supports might be provided to them,” said O’Connell.

After days of uncertainty, Lyons returned to Summerland this week. Ash was scattered around the property and the smell of smoke clung to her home.

Others were less fortunate. Officials said about 150 structures have been damaged in the fire. An 80-year-old woman died suddenly as she left her home, police said.

Many shops remained closed and firefighting helicopters were parked at the local school, Lyons said.

The relief of homecoming has not shaken her concern about what could happen the next time disaster strikes, but it has underlined her desire to see people with disabilities at the forefront of evacuation plans and decision-making.

“It’s often hearing people who look and they go, ‘Oh, here’s what we’re going to do.’ They make a decision, but it doesn’t match the requirements for deaf-blind, Deaf, hard-of-hearing people,” she said.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 22, 2026.

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TORONTO – The night before Lily-Madeleine Seguin was set to book her flight to the Democratic Republic of Congo in late May, the Canadian government announced a three-week quarantine for travellers returning from the Ebola-stricken country.

Seguin, a public health promotion adviser with Oxfam’s global humanitarian team, had all of her final sign-offs and approvals green-lit. Her booster shots were updated.

She was ready to fly out two days later for a two-month deployment when she heard the news. It came as a shock to Seguin, who has been a part of previous Ebola outbreak responses in the DRC, including an 11-month deployment in 2018.

But she never went. There wouldn’t be enough time to quarantine between her return and the beginning of a sabbatical she had scheduled months before.

Now, three months later, the government’s mandatory 21-day quarantine is set to expire on Aug. 29. As the outbreak rages at an unprecedented speed, Seguin said she hopes Canadian officials will reverse course.

“To me, we’re not stepping up in the way that we should be as a country that does have the ability to do it and changing the quarantine regulations is a low-stakes way of being able to do it,” Seguin said.

She is not the only one who feels this way.

Canadian humanitarian aid workers say their ability to respond to the outbreak has been stifled by the country’s long quarantine period, forcing some to stay home or cut their deployments short. They say an extension of the mandatory 21-day quarantine for Canadians and permanent residents returning from the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan could be detrimental to the outbreak response.

The World Health Organization has said this is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, on track to be the deadliest, with Africa’s top public health agency reporting more than 2,500 deaths out of more than 5,000 infections.

Canada’s government said it’s currently reviewing the restrictions and latest evidence alongside international partners and will announce a decision on next steps before the expiration date next week.

When the measures were announced in May, the approaching FIFA World Cup was pegged as a key reason for the strict rules, aligning with co-hosting countries, the United States and Mexico. Canada’s health minister said at the time that “it’s not a question of science,” but of protecting people from the lasting trauma of past outbreaks.

At least 11 Canadians with highly valuable expertise have had to cancel their assignments with MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, as of Aug. 20 because of the quarantine measures, the organization says. Twenty-three Canadians in total have been a part of MSF’s Ebola response in the DRC.

Adam Houston, medical policy and advocacy adviser at MSF Canada, said some of those Canadians would have been deployed to other humanitarian efforts in the conflict-ridden region and that the measures have affected more than just the Ebola response.

“This is impacting our ability for Canadians to participate,” Houston said.

Mylene Ratelle, who was hired as a health promotion manager at MSF,  said she would have stayed in the DRC for far longer than she did, but she had to come home to quarantine for three weeks before the start of the fall semester.

“I’m very critical about how Canada chose to implement their public health measures,” Ratelle said from her apartment in Montreal, where she was quarantining, back to pandemic-era baking instead of contact tracing in the DRC.

As a professor of public health who has worked for Canada’s public health agency, Ratelle said she was disappointed by the lack of scientific basis for Canada’s strict border measures.

Ebola does not spread through the air or casual contact, but through bodily fluids like blood, vomit and semen. People also generally do not spread the virus before they get sick, which can take two to 21 days after infection.

Roojin Habibi, research director of global health law at the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa and York University, said Canada’s travel restrictions go against expert guidance from the World Health Organization, which has criticized blanket travel restrictions, and said that they are based on fear, not science.

“To me, it’s quite egregious,” she said.

Habibi said the government has communicated to the public that the risk of Ebola spreading here is very low, but she sees the measures implemented as a way to avoid people saying that not enough was done to protect Canadians.

Karine LeBlanc, a senior communications adviser at Health Canada, said the government is “continually reviewing the measures alongside the latest evidence with international partners and will determine next steps before the existing measures are set to expire.”

LeBlanc says the temporary measures are not intended to eliminate all risk, “but to reduce the likelihood of importation, support early identification of potentially ill travellers, and therefore reduce the risk of potential spread to others in Canada.”

The mandatory quarantine also applies to Canadians returning from South Sudan and Uganda. South Sudan has not reported a case of Ebola in this outbreak. Uganda’s ministry of health declared its outbreak over on July 28, after 20 people were infected, including two deaths.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control advises travellers returning from the DRC or Uganda to self-monitor for symptoms and only quarantine if they had a high-risk exposure, such as direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or close face-to-face contact with someone coughing, vomiting or bleeding, who has the virus.

Seguin said it’s not that she thinks her presence would have curbed the spread of the outbreak, but that it pains her to see Canada sending this signal to the rest of the world.

The government has committed $8 million to support the fight against the outbreak, but she said it is pennies compared to the more the $110 million of financial assistance during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

“All the decisions that the Canadian government has decided to make over the past few months around the Ebola outbreak, none of them have been very forthright in saying, we understand that this is a global priority and as Canada we’re going to step up to help in the ways that are equal to the capacities that we have in this country.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 22, 2026.

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EDMONTON – Vincent Blanchard kicked a 40-yard field goal as time expired to give the Edmonton Elks a 22-19 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday night.

The Elks overcame a bad start to win their second game in a row and maintain their spot atop the CFL’s West Division standings.

Edmonton trailed 16-0 late in the second quarter. The Elks, who haven’t made the playoffs since 2019, improved to 8-3.

It’s the latest they have been in top spot in any season since 2015. The Bombers (5-5) have lost three of their last four.

Winnipeg had a strong opening drive, but ended up settling for a 15-yard field goal by Sergio Castillo.

The Blue Bombers again competently marched down the field on their next possession, but were stopped on a third-and-goal gamble from the five.

They kept coming and finally reached the end zone to start the second quarter as quarterback Zach Collaros found Tim White with a 30-yard touchdown pass.

Winnipeg got into the red zone for the fourth time in a row, settling on a 20-yard field goal.

Edmonton continued to struggle as QB Cody Fajardo was picked off at midfield by Jonathan Moxey, leading to a 52-yard field goal by Castillo.

The Elks finally got their act together with 1:31 to play in the first half as a long pass interference call led to a 15-yard TD pass to Austin Mack. The two-point convert failed, making it 16-6 Winnipeg at the half.

Edmonton started the third quarter with a 42-yard Blanchard field goal.

The Elks continued to look like an entirely different squad as they marched downfield and tied the game on a one-yard QB keeper by Fajardo late in the third.

Edmonton had a chance to take its first lead four minutes into the fourth, but Fajardo fumbled the ball away at the Winnipeg 16, recovered by Cameron Lawson.

The Elks took the lead with six minutes left in the final frame on a 34-yard Blanchard field goal.

The Bombers tied the game again with 1:41 to play on a 53-yard field goal by Castillo. However, the Elks were able to march back and seal the victory as time expired.

NOTES

Fajardo’s second-quarter TD pass to Mack was his 18th of the season, matching his career high. Castillo passed Troy Westwood for the franchise record for 50-plus yard field goals, a mark that now stands at 42.

UP NEXT

Bombers: Host the Montreal Alouettes on Aug. 29.

Elks: Have a bye week before heading to Calgary on Sept. 7.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 21, 2026.

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Canada will respond “dollar for dollar” to new U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, Prime Minister Mark Carney said late Friday as Ottawa suspended trade negotiations with Washington and recalled its negotiating team.

The move came as President Donald Trump’s new 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Canadian goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Saturday after the two countries failed to finalize a comprehensive trade deal ahead of Trump’s deadline.

The tariffs were originally set to kick in Wednesday, but Trump announced a three-day pause to allow the trade talks — which had intensified over the past few weeks after the tariffs were first threatened — to conclude.

While Trump said at the time “we have a deal” with Canada, Canadian officials were more cautious, saying final details and legal language still needed to be finalized. Negotiators ultimately left Washington on Friday without a completed agreement as the tariffs took effect overnight.

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In a statement late Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada was suspending trade negotiations and recalling its negotiating team to Ottawa, arguing that last-minute changes to the U.S. position were unfair, uneconomic and raised questions about the reliability of any agreement.

Carney said recent progress had not been enough to meet Canada’s objectives, which included preserving broad access to the U.S. market, reducing tariffs on key sectors and protecting Canadian businesses. He also said Canada would match the new U.S. tariffs “dollar for dollar” and announce additional support measures for affected workers and businesses in the coming days.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, however, blamed Canada for the collapse of the talks, saying Ottawa declined to finalize a deal under terms agreed to earlier in the week. Greer said the United States had offered Canada preferential treatment and additional tariff relief, but that new Canadian demands and reversals of previous commitments upended the agreement.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford backed Carney’s approach, saying the prime minister has his “full support for a strong response — tariff for tariff, dollar for dollar.” Ford said “everything needs to be on the table” to protect Canadian sovereignty and economic security and that Ontario is ready to do its part.

B.C. Premier David Eby also voiced support for a tough response, saying British Columbians “will always stand with Canada” and that Canadian “politeness should never be mistaken for weakness.” Eby said Canadians did not ask for the trade dispute but would “keep fighting for as long as it takes.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said “no one benefits from a trade war” and warned tariffs and counter-tariffs will hurt businesses, workers and families on both sides of the border. Smith said Alberta will continue advocating for a tariff-free relationship with the United States and urged Ottawa to restart negotiations as soon as possible.

Business groups also warned the tariffs will hurt both sides of the border. Candace Laing, president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, called the tariffs a “body blow to North American competitiveness” and said the duties are “not sustainable or viable for business.”

Laing said small Canadian exporters operating on tight margins will be forced to reassess orders, payrolls and staffing levels. She warned Americans will face higher costs while Canadian businesses could lose customers and investment as the trade dispute escalates.

Sources have told Global News the U.S. was prepared to lower — but not remove — sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum and autos under the deal while withdrawing the new 50 per cent tariff order altogether. The deal was also set to include enhanced partnerships in areas including defence, critical minerals and energy.

Canada, meanwhile, would address the three trade irritants cited by Trump for the new tariffs: provincial boycotts of U.S. alcohol, reciprocal tariffs on American autos and auto parts, and tariff-rate quotas for dairy exports under supply management.

Greer had said the proposal also included a broader economic and national security partnership covering export controls, digital trade, critical minerals and efforts to combat transshipment and forced labour, as well as a path toward formal negotiations on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.

He called Canada’s decision not to sign the deal a “missed opportunity” to deepen cooperation with the United States.

The new tariffs are being imposed under Section 338 of the U.S. Tariff Act, which allows a president to tariff any country that “discriminates” against U.S. commerce.

Greer says nearly US $20 billion worth of Canadian imports will be tariffed, an amount that will “offset” the economic impact of Canada’s “unreasonable and discriminatory” measures. Greer also criticized Canada for maintaining retaliatory measures against the United States, including restrictions on some American goods and services.

The imposition of the new tariffs puts into question efforts to renegotiate the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on free trade (CUSMA). Sources have told Global News that Canada was pursuing a three-step framework under the new trade deal that would lead to substantive talks to renew CUSMA, after the U.S. declined to do so at last month’s scheduled review.

–with files from The Canadian Press

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A Brampton man who kidnapped a woman in May 2021 and then attempted to kidnap another woman two days later, after being arrested and released with conditions in the first case, has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison.

Superior Court Justice James Stribopoulos said Diavion Henningham targeted two women who were alone in public places and exploited their willingness to help him through deception. Stribopoulos said that when the women didn’t comply, he assaulted them, leaving each woman fearing for her life.

Court heard Henningham pleaded guilty to kidnapping and attempted kidnapping on Sept. 26, 2025, on the eve of his trial after an unsuccessful motion for a stay of proceedings.

According to an agreed statement of facts, the first incident occurred on May 21, 2021, when Henningham, then 22, approached a woman walking near the intersection of Hurontario Street and Eglinton Avenue in Mississauga while she was speaking on her phone.

Henningham asked to borrow the phone, claiming he was experiencing issues with his own device. She agreed, and while he appeared to be using it, he walked toward a vehicle in the parking lot of a nearby shopping plaza.

As they spoke, Henningham offered her a ride to Square One shopping centre. The woman accepted and entered the vehicle. When she realized he was driving in the opposite direction, she questioned him. Henningham claimed he first had to go to a friend’s house.

He still had her cellphone. When she tried to retrieve it, Henningham pushed her away and struck her repeatedly, including punching her in the face.

“Fearing for her safety, she opened the passenger door while the vehicle was moving and tried to escape, screaming for help. Mr. Henningham prevented her from doing so by pulling the door shut and striking her again. Another motorist saw her trying to get out of the moving vehicle with her feet dragging along the roadway and called 911,” the judge said.

Approximately 11 kilometres from where they had started, Henningham finally stopped the vehicle, yelled at her to “just get out,” and drove away after she exited.

The vehicle was registered to Henningham’s stepfather. He was arrested the following day. He admitted giving the woman a ride and claimed she assaulted him before he was released on an undertaking with conditions.

Despite his arrest, on May 23, 2021, Henningham approached another woman in a North York shopping plaza near Finch Avenue West and Pearldale Avenue.

Again, he asked to use the woman’s cellphone and she agreed. As he appeared to make a phone call, she followed him and Henningham took a seat in the back of a vehicle. He asked whether she wanted a ride home, and she declined.

“Mr. Henningham grabbed her by the arm and attempted to pull her into the vehicle, before repeatedly telling her to get in. She screamed and fought back. When she managed to get a few feet away, Mr. Henningham wrapped his arms around her and attempted to pull her back towards the vehicle. During the struggle, he punched her three or four times on her left side,” Stribopoulos said.

Court heard a passerby noticed the commotion and called 911, while another person took a photograph of the apparent assault.

Stribopoulos said Henningham ultimately succeeded in pulling the woman head-first into the vehicle, at which point a passerby intervened, allowing her to escape.

Henningham was arrested on May 24, 2021, and granted bail on the attempted kidnapping charge with strict conditions under the supervision of his sureties.

The judge said both women continue to suffer psychological effects from the attacks.

The first woman said in a victim impact statement that she feared for her life during the ordeal and, because of it, “now sees the world as more ugly.”

The second woman told the court she lives in a constant state of fear and has required therapy.

Henningham told a forensic psychologist that at the time of the offences, he was depressed and socially isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic. He had no prior criminal record.

The psychologist concluded Henningham’s mental health began to deteriorate in his late teens and worsened during the pandemic. He also began using cannabis heavily. Henningham told the psychologist he was simply trying to meet women. She assessed him as posing a low risk of reoffending.

The Crown sought a five-year prison sentence, while the defence argued that a 12-month conditional sentence followed by 12 months of probation would be appropriate.

Stribopoulos found it aggravating that the attempted kidnapping occurred two days after the kidnapping and one day after Henningham had been charged and released on an undertaking.

“Kidnapping and attempted kidnapping require sentences that denounce this conduct. The victims were women and vulnerable because they were alone. Women and children are entitled to move about their communities without fear of being abducted by strangers,” the judge said.

 

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B.C.’s Sikh community is on edge after a violent attack and stabbing at a temple in Edmonton.

Police said a man tried to access the prayer area of the Nanaksar gurdwara when he was confronted by staff.

Two patrons intervened and were stabbed during the confrontation; luckily, the victims suffered only non-life-threatening injuries.

There is no known threat to any B.C. gurdwaras, but Abbotsford police said they are taking precautions, with extra patrols around places of worship.

“A member of our senior management team is also connected with the executive at the various places in Abbotsford here, just to offer that reassurance piece,” Sgt. Paul Walker with the Abbotsford police said.

In the community, the focus is on staying vigilant without letting fear take over.

“I will say it again: don’t panic,” Baljinder Bains, Khalsa Diwan Society’s recording secretary, said.

“OK, don’t make a hasty decisions. There shouldn’t be no violence in any religious places, and it’s very sad to hear that.”

Vancouver police are taking a similar approach to Abbotsford’s police, with officers monitoring the situation and connecting with Vancouver’s Sikh community.

The World Sikh Organization said Friday’s attack comes as concerns about anti-Sikh hate continue to grow.

“We’ve been calling for proactive steps to address this for quite some time now, so laws on the ground should be re-evaluating their security protocols, and we think that police and government should take this seriously,” Balpreet Singh, with the World Sikh Organization, said.

Edmonton police say their hate crime unit is involved to determine if the attack was hate-motivated.

Police also said that the 27-year-old suspect arrested on Friday morning has a significant history of violent offences and was released from a federal institution on Thursday.

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VANCOUVER – Zander Horvath knows people are talking about him.

The attention comes as little surprise given the numbers the B.C. Lions running back has put up in recent weeks.

The Lions are on a three-game win streak and over that stretch, Horvath has amassed 355 running yards (7.4 yards per carry) and six touchdowns (five rushing, one receiving).

He’ll look to add to the total on Sunday when the Lions (4-5) host the Saskatchewan Roughriders (6-3).

“It’s been a lot better than what it has been,” the 27-year-old American said of his recent performance. “But, I mean, it’s not just a one-man show. It’s everyone doing their job up front, receivers carrying out the fakes, quarterbacks carrying out the fakes. It’s everyone doing their 1/12 on the field, not just me.”

Now in his second CFL season, Horvath has already eclipsed the 231 rushing yards and two touchdowns he logged for B.C. last year.

A big part of the growth has been simply getting more chances, he said.

“I think it’s more just the play count going up and more touches. Because at the beginning of the season, I was only getting maybe a few here and there, but now it’s 10 to 15 some games,” Horvath said. “It all just depends. But I’m just trying to capitalize whenever I get the opportunity.”

Lions head coach Buck Pierce has watched Horvath’s confidence grow as he gained a better understanding of the team’s systems.

“Just like anything, the more reps you get, the more comfort you’re going to have,” he said. “I think when you look at Zander, he works extremely hard.”

Selected by Los Angeles in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL draft, Horvath played 15 regular-season games for the Chargers, scoring touchdowns in each of his first two appearances.

He was waived by the Chargers at the end of the 2023 training camp and signed on to the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad. Another stint with L.A. followed that season before he joined training camps in New Orleans and Miami the following year.

The six-foot-three 230-pound Purdue product then signed with the Lions as a free agent in January 2025.

In B.C., he’s been a quiet, unselfish and hard-working player, and the Lions have increased his workload as the season has progressed, Pierce said, making use of his big body and athleticism.

“He’s extremely aware of his body and what he has to do each week physically to prepare,” the head coach said. “But when you talk about his attributes, he’s able to get the tough yards, but he’s also able to break one.

“That’s a credit to him and the way that he prepares. He’s a good football player that has a great combination of strength and speed.”

Those attributes haven’t gone unnoticed around the CFL.

Asked this week about how the Roughriders can contain Horvath, Saskatchewan’s head coach Corey Mace was complimentary.

“He’s a behemoth of a human being,” he said. “You’ve got to be sound in your tackling and you can’t sleep on his athleticism. Everyone wants to talk about how big he is but that joker still, he’s agile, he’s athletic and still fast.”

Horvath takes the attention as a compliment but said he’ll be careful not to get caught up in it.

“Every week’s different and every opponent’s different, so take it with a grain of salt and focus on the bigger picture,” he said.

This week, Horvath and the Lions will aim to extend their win streak to four against a Riders side that fell 26-19 to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats last week.

B.C. leads the league in rushing offence (116.9 yards per a game) while Saskatchewan comes in having allowed the second-fewest rushing yards per game (64.6).

Saskatchewan took the first matchup between the two sides on June 13, beating B.C. 31-27.

“I think (the Lions are) a better version of who they are as opposed to when we played them early in the season,” Mace said. “Obviously they’re rolling right now. They discovered a run game, they still have the same pieces that they had, their defence is playing really good right now and they’ve got some really good, aggressive players on special teams … good team, man. Again, another test for us.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 21, 2026.

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