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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will convene an in-person meeting with Canada’s premiers next week in Ottawa to discuss the looming economic threat from the U.S., the Prime Minister’s Office told Global News.The meeting, scheduled for Jan. 15, will be the first between Trudeau and the premiers since the prime minister announced on Monday he plans to resign after a new Liberal leader is chosen. Parliament has been prorogued until March 24 to allow for a leadership race.That announcement came with two weeks to go before the inauguration of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to impose economically damaging 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods upon taking office.4:26
What could Trudeau’s exit mean for Canada-U.S. trade talks?Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday urged Trudeau to meet “face-to-face” with the premiers as early as this week to explain how the federal government plans to avoid or respond to those tariffs, which he said should still be the number one priority in Ottawa.“We need all hands on deck, and we need the prime minister to continue doing his job,” he told reporters in Toronto.“Prorogation doesn’t mean vacation. It means continuing moving forward as the prime minister as long as he holds that title.”The premiers are set to hold a separate call amongst themselves this Wednesday afternoon without Trudeau.British Columbia Premier David Eby said Tuesday the “state of the federal government” means Canada’s premiers are taking the lead in the fight against Trump’s tariff threat, alluding to the political chaos in Ottawa.“We’ll be having discussions this Wednesday with premiers from across Canada to ensure that we’re coordinating,” Eby told reporters in Vancouver.“I hope that even despite the resignation of the prime minister, the federal government is able to participate in meaningful ways with us moving forward.”1:59
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The premiers are planning a visit to Washington to meet with American decision makers and try to convince Trump to back away from his tariff plan. Ford said last month the trip was tentatively scheduled for February, but no date has been set.Eby said the premiers will make the case that the proposed tariffs “will mean a significant increase in prices for Americans” on costs like homes and electricity.Eby spoke after Trump amped up his rhetoric about wanting Canada to become a U.S. state, telling reporters in Florida on Tuesday he’d use “economic force” to force a merger between the two countries.Trudeau wrote on social media that there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” and Eby similarly dismissed Trump’s threat.“Canadians are proud. I’m proud to be Canadian. We are not becoming the 51st state,” he said.“I think that one of the recognitions of both Canadians and Americans is that we are different places, we have different priorities, and yet we’re good neighbours and friends and, in many cases, family.”&copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

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The injuries are starting to pile up on the Winnipeg Jets blueline.Defenceman Colin Miller is the latest to be sidelined after being diagnosed with a fractured larynx. He suffered the injury in the final minute of the first period in their loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.Miller was hit in the throat by a shot and will be out for a minimum of two weeks. It was a bit of a scary situation but Jets head coach Scott Arniel said he’s doing well now, 72 hours after being struck by the puck.“A dangerous situation,” said Arniel after Tuesday’s morning skate. “But doing a lot better. He’s around, he’s here. Just that it’s more now that he can’t get hit again, obviously.“He’s actually on a bike. He’s around the guys. Talks a little quieter but at the end of the day, he’s upbeat. Just the biggest thing is it’s precaution now, just making sure that he can’t go out and something happen, run into him, somebody runs into him or something happens again. It has to heal.”Trending Now

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The Jets were already without injured defencemen Dylan Samberg and Haydn Fleury. Samberg has removed the non-contact jersey in practice after breaking his foot over six weeks ago and it seems his return is imminent.

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As Donald Trump continues to talk about taking control of Greenland, his oldest boy, Donald Trump Jr., travelled to the intelligent French country on Tuesday— but Greenlandic and Danish authorities are making it clear they want nothing to do with what the Trumps are proposing. ” Don Jr. and my Reps getting in Greenland”, Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, Tuesday. ” The welcome has been fantastic. They, and the Free World, have safety, security, durability, and PEACE! This is a package that may happen. MAGA. Generate GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN”!

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In a statement, Greenland’s authorities said the younger Trump’s attend was taking area” as a private specific” and not as an official visit, and Greenlandic members did not meet with him. Additionally, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday that” Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders”. The island is” not for sale”, she said, adding that” we need to stay calm and stick to our principles “.Trump Jr., speaking on a podcast Monday, said he was making the trip without any political motivations, calling it a “personal day-trip”. The visit, however, had political connotations. The president-elect has voiced a wish — even expressed during his first president — to get the country in the Arctic, an area of corporate significance for the U. S, China, Russia and people. 2: 20
Donald Trump calls Denmark’s refusal of Greenland sales’ no nice’And soon after his son touched down in Greenland, Trump told a news conference that he wouldn’t act out using military force or economic coercion to take control of Greenland, saying that” we need it for regional security “.The world’s largest island, Greenland sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and 80 per cent of it is covered by an ice sheet. The autonomous territory has some 56, 000 residents, most of them Indigenous Inuit people. Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede has called for independence from Denmark, saying in a New Year’s speech that it would be a way for Greenland to free itself from its colonial past. But Egede has also said he has no interest in Greenland becoming part of the U. S., insisting that the island is not for sale. Independence has become a key issue ahead of an election for the Greenlandic parliament. A date hasn’t been set, but it must take place no later than April 6. Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament, told The Associated Press she has no interest in Greenland becoming part of the U. S. and said she hears the same sentiment from her constituents. ” Most people don’t want it”, she said. ” I think some people find it quite disrespectful. And the way it has been done, and just the fact that you’re saying that you can buy another country “.Greenland isn’t the only locale outside the U. S. that Trump has spoken about acquiring and making part of the United States, he can’t stop talking about Canada becoming the 51st state. In the same Tuesday press conference where he said he wouldn’t rule out military force or economic coercion on Greenland, he threatened similar action against Canada. 1: 13
Trump calls Trudeau ‘ governor’ of the’ Great State of Canada’ When asked by a reporter if he was considering the same to “annex and acquire Canada”, Trump responded,” No — economic force”. ” Canada and the United States, that would really be something”, he said. ” You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security “.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded shortly after Trump’s threat, writing on social media there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States”. ” Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner”, he added. Trump repeatedly stated the U. S.” subsidizes” Canada to the tune of US$ 200 billion in trade and spends billions more on continental defence programs like NORAD than Canada, who he said “don’t essentially have a military”. ” We don’t need their cars, we don’t need their lumber”, he continued. ” We don’t need anything they have. We don’t need their dairy products” .We don’t need anything. So why are we losing$ 200 billion a year and more to protect Canada? ” — With files from Global News ‘ Sean Boynton and The Associated Press&amp, copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says he will attend former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 9.

Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. He was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981.

A public funeral will take place Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington.

The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau will attend the funeral to deliver condolences on behalf of Canadians and reaffirm the close ties between the two countries.

In a post on X, the prime minister said Friday that Carter worked to make the world a better place.

Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Tuesday night and again Wednesday. U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at his funeral Thursday.

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Jimmy Carter’s state funeral begins in Georgia hometown

Carter’s remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus Tuesday morning, accompanied by his children and extended family. Special Air Mission 39 departed Dobbins Air Reserve Base north of Atlanta and arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

A motorcade carried the casket into Washington for a final journey to the Capitol, where members of Congress will pay their respects.

In Georgia, eight military pallbearers held Carter’s casket as cannons fired on the tarmac nearby. They carried it to a vehicle that lifted it to the passenger compartment of the aircraft, the iconic blue and white Boeing 747 variant that is known as Air Force One when the sitting president is on board. Carter never traveled as president on the jet, which first flew as Air Force One in 1990 with President George H.W. Bush.

The scene repeated outside Washington. The former president’s casket was removed from the plane, cannons fired and a military band played. A hearse emblazoned with the seal of the president joined a motorcade that steered toward Washington.

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A bipartisan delegation of members of Congress were led into the Capitol rotunda by Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Democrats who represent Carter’s home state.

Three of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices also were present. Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan stood next to Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in the rotunda.

The U.S. Army Band Brass Quintet played as people awaited the casket’s arrival.

There are the familiar rituals that follow a president’s death — the Air Force ride back to the Beltway, a military honor guard carrying a flag-draped casket up the Capitol steps, the Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda.

There also will be symbolism unique to Carter. As he was carried from his presidential center, a military band played hymns — “Amazing Grace” and “Blessed Assurance” for the outspoken Baptist evangelical who called himself a “born-again Christian” when he sought and won the presidency in 1976. In Washington, his hearse stopped at the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his remains were transferred to a horse-drawn caisson for the rest of his trip to the Capitol. The location nods to Carter’s place as the lone U.S. Naval Academy graduate to become commander in chief.

All of the pomp carries some irony for the Democrat who went from his family peanut warehouse to the Governor’s Mansion and eventually the White House. Carter won the presidency as the smiling Southerner and technocratic engineer who promised to change the ways of Washington — and eschewed many of those unwritten rules when he got there.

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Former US president Jimmy Carter dead at 100

From 1977 to 1981, Carter was Washington’s highest-ranking resident. But he never mastered it.

“He could be prickly and a not very appealing personality” in a town that thrives on relationships, said biographer Jonathan Alter, describing a president who struggled with schmoozing lawmakers and reporters.

Carter often flouted the ceremonial trappings that have been on display in Georgia and will continue in Washington.

As president, he wanted to keep the Marine Band from playing “Hail to the Chief,” thinking it elevated the president too much. His advisers convinced him to accept it as part of the job. The song played Saturday as he arrived at his presidential center after a motorcade through his hometown of Plains and past his boyhood farm. It played again as his remains were carried out on their way to Washington.

He also never used his full name, James Earl Carter Jr., even taking the oath of office. His full name was printed on memorial cards given to all mourners who paid their respects in Atlanta.

He once addressed the nation from the White House residence wearing a cardigan, now on display at his museum and library. His remains now rest in a wooden casket being carried and guarded by military pallbearers in their impeccable dress uniforms.

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Jimmy Carter left ‘lasting impact,’ residents say as procession rolls through Georgia

As Carter’s remains left Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump criticized the late former president during a news conference in Florida for ceding control of the Panama Canal to its home country.

Pressed on if criticism of Carter was appropriate during the solemn funeral rites, Trump responded, “I liked him as a man. I disagreed with his policies. He thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing.”

“I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death,” he added, even though he had first mentioned it unprompted.

—With additional files from the Associated Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says he will attend former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 9.

Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. He was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981.

A public funeral will take place Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington.

The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau will attend the funeral to deliver condolences on behalf of Canadians and reaffirm the close ties between the two countries.

In a post on X, the prime minister said Friday that Carter worked to make the world a better place.

Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Tuesday night and again Wednesday. U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at his funeral Thursday.

2:12
Jimmy Carter’s state funeral begins in Georgia hometown

Carter’s remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus Tuesday morning, accompanied by his children and extended family. Special Air Mission 39 departed Dobbins Air Reserve Base north of Atlanta and arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

A motorcade carried the casket into Washington for a final journey to the Capitol, where members of Congress will pay their respects.

In Georgia, eight military pallbearers held Carter’s casket as cannons fired on the tarmac nearby. They carried it to a vehicle that lifted it to the passenger compartment of the aircraft, the iconic blue and white Boeing 747 variant that is known as Air Force One when the sitting president is on board. Carter never traveled as president on the jet, which first flew as Air Force One in 1990 with President George H.W. Bush.

The scene repeated outside Washington. The former president’s casket was removed from the plane, cannons fired and a military band played. A hearse emblazoned with the seal of the president joined a motorcade that steered toward Washington.

View image in full screen

View image in full screen

A bipartisan delegation of members of Congress were led into the Capitol rotunda by Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Democrats who represent Carter’s home state.

Three of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices also were present. Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Elena Kagan stood next to Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in the rotunda.

The U.S. Army Band Brass Quintet played as people awaited the casket’s arrival.

There are the familiar rituals that follow a president’s death — the Air Force ride back to the Beltway, a military honor guard carrying a flag-draped casket up the Capitol steps, the Lincoln catafalque in the Rotunda.

There also will be symbolism unique to Carter. As he was carried from his presidential center, a military band played hymns — “Amazing Grace” and “Blessed Assurance” for the outspoken Baptist evangelical who called himself a “born-again Christian” when he sought and won the presidency in 1976. In Washington, his hearse stopped at the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his remains were transferred to a horse-drawn caisson for the rest of his trip to the Capitol. The location nods to Carter’s place as the lone U.S. Naval Academy graduate to become commander in chief.

All of the pomp carries some irony for the Democrat who went from his family peanut warehouse to the Governor’s Mansion and eventually the White House. Carter won the presidency as the smiling Southerner and technocratic engineer who promised to change the ways of Washington — and eschewed many of those unwritten rules when he got there.

3:32
Former US president Jimmy Carter dead at 100

From 1977 to 1981, Carter was Washington’s highest-ranking resident. But he never mastered it.

“He could be prickly and a not very appealing personality” in a town that thrives on relationships, said biographer Jonathan Alter, describing a president who struggled with schmoozing lawmakers and reporters.

Carter often flouted the ceremonial trappings that have been on display in Georgia and will continue in Washington.

As president, he wanted to keep the Marine Band from playing “Hail to the Chief,” thinking it elevated the president too much. His advisers convinced him to accept it as part of the job. The song played Saturday as he arrived at his presidential center after a motorcade through his hometown of Plains and past his boyhood farm. It played again as his remains were carried out on their way to Washington.

He also never used his full name, James Earl Carter Jr., even taking the oath of office. His full name was printed on memorial cards given to all mourners who paid their respects in Atlanta.

He once addressed the nation from the White House residence wearing a cardigan, now on display at his museum and library. His remains now rest in a wooden casket being carried and guarded by military pallbearers in their impeccable dress uniforms.

2:50
Jimmy Carter left ‘lasting impact,’ residents say as procession rolls through Georgia

As Carter’s remains left Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump criticized the late former president during a news conference in Florida for ceding control of the Panama Canal to its home country.

Pressed on if criticism of Carter was appropriate during the solemn funeral rites, Trump responded, “I liked him as a man. I disagreed with his policies. He thought giving away the Panama Canal was a good thing.”

“I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death,” he added, even though he had first mentioned it unprompted.

—With additional files from the Associated Press

Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel completely end its assault on Gaza under any deal to launch hostages, and said U. S. president-elect Donald Trump was reckless to say” all hell will crack out” unless they go completely by his Jan. 20 inauguration. In the most intense effort to end the hostage-taking in Gaza and secure the release of 100 victims that remain prisoner in Gaza, officials from the Islamist party and Israel have been speaking with Qatari and Iranian mediators in the most intense work for months. Many in the area then see Trump’s inauguration as an illegal date, and the incoming U.S. administration has called for a last push for a bargain before Joe Biden leaves business. All heaven will tear out in the Middle East, Trump said on Tuesday at a press conference held at his Mar-a-Lago hotel in Florida.” If ( the victims are ) not back by the time I get into business, by the time I get into business. ” It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone” .1: 47
Tel Aviv protesters rally against Netanyahu, need efforts on captive deal with HamasTrump is dispatching his approaching special minister to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, to Qatar this week for more talks. According to Wittkoff, significant progress has been made. ” The red lines he’s put out there — that’s driving this negotiation”, Witkoff told reporters while standing next to Trump. However, with the clock ticking, both sides accuse one side of blocking a deal by agreeing to terms that had torpedoed all previous peace efforts for more than a year. Only if Israel agrees to end its military offensive and pulls all of its troops out of Gaza, according to Hamas, will it release the hostages that remain. Israel claims it won’t put an end to its assault until Hamas is destroyed and all hostages are free. ” Hamas is the only obstacle to the release of the hostages”, the director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, Eden Bar Tal, told a briefing with reporters, saying Israel was fully committed to reaching a deal. Osama Hamdan, a top official from Hamas and held a press conference in Algiers, claimed Israel was to blame for undermining any efforts to reach a deal. He reiterated Hamas ‘ demands for” a complete end to the aggression and a full withdrawal from lands the occupation invaded,” while adding that the U.S. president should make more diplomatic and disciplined statements.
At least 70 killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza amid ongoing ceasefire talksIsrael has sent a team of mid-ranking officials to Qatar for talks brokered by Qatari and Egyptian mediators. Some Arabic media reports said David Barnea, the head of Mossad, who has been leading negotiations, was expected to join them. The Israeli prime minister’s office did not comment. A Hamas official claimed on Sunday that the organization had cleared a list of 34 hostages who might be freed in the course of a truce, along with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, in a notable step toward a settlement. The list included female Israeli soldiers, plus elderly, female and minor-aged civilians. Israel’s prime minister’s office claimed that the country had not yet received confirmation that those on its list were still alive. Nearly 46, 000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, according to Hamas health officials in the enclave. According to Israeli records, the assault was launched after Hamas fighters stormed Israeli territory in October 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages. At least 24 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to doctors, as the Hamas-run health ministry pleaded with international donors to immediately provide fuel to keep up generators and provide medical care. Four people were killed in one of those attacks in a house in Gaza City, and six were killed in two other attacks across the area, according to doctors. 2: 06
UN report criticizes regular Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals Additionally, an Israeli strike on a car in Khan Younis killed two people, medics and civil emergency service officials said. A request for comment on those strikes was not immediately received by the Israeli military. The military released footage of a purported Hamas militant’s interrogation, which detailed how militants “operated from the hospital area” and transferred weapons to and from it, according to the statement. It claimed 240 Palestinians its forces had detained in a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza last month had provided” substantial intelligence.” Any armed presence at the hospital is disputed by Hamas and the Gaza Health Ministry. accompanied by additional Associated Press files