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Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … Carney's cabinet huddles in Banff as trade war intensifies Prime Minister Mark Carney is gathering his cabinet today and Friday in the mountain resort town of Banff, Alta., for closed-door meetings as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war intensifies.

CALGARY — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet Prime Minister Mark Carney in Calgary this morning before addressing cabinet members gathered in Banff, Alta. Zelenskyy arrived in Calgary on Wednesday night after travelling to Iceland and Norway. He and his wife, Olena Zelenska, are also set to visit Toronto and North Bay, Ont., before leaving Friday.

OTTAWA — Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Steven Backman could usually cross the Canada-U.S. border with a simple wave. Backman, like many residents of St. Stephen, N.B., would travel frequently to neighbouring Calais, Maine. "When locals would go through the border, often the U.S. customs or the Canadian customs would just poke their head out, see it was a local person crossing, and just wave you through," he said.

TORONTO — Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center spurred widespread surveillance and hostility against Muslims around the world, the work of countering Islamophobia in Canada still rests largely on those it targets, a major Islamic organization said in the lead-up to the anniversary. As Muslims suddenly found their faith wrongly linked with extremist acts in the aftermath of the Sept.

BANFF — Prime Minister Mark Carney is gathering his cabinet today and Friday in the mountain resort town of Banff, Alta., for closed-door meetings as President Donald Trump's trade war intensifies. Trump lashed out again Tuesday by signing executive orders to ban certain Canadian imports later this month, including alcohol, motorcycles and dairy products. The latest tit-for-tat comes in response to Ottawa levying tens of billions of dollars in counter-tariffs on the United States last month.

TORONTO — In “Below,” an upcoming Newfoundland-set Netflix miniseries, the horrors under the sea are just the tip of the iceberg. Jesse McKeown is the creator of the show, which falls into the North Atlantic noir sub-genre but also explores current-day issues such as communities losing their livelihoods, climate change and family displacement. It premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia woman says she is not giving up a fight launched by her son for enhanced government support for unhoused people. Jackie Lowe's son, Bradley Lowe, died in 2023, years before he won a legal case on Aug. 5 that found that people living in tents were eligible for the enhanced provincial government support.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia woman says she is not giving up a fight launched by her son for enhanced government support for unhoused people. Jackie Lowe's son, Bradley Lowe, died in 2023, years before he won a legal case on Aug. 5 that found that people living in tents were eligible for the enhanced provincial government support.

Distilleries and spirit makers are likely to be the hardest hit among Canadian alcohol producers as the United States proposes a broad ban on Canadian booze starting later this month. Craig Johnston, chief economist at Farm Credit Canada, saysdistilleries ship more than half of their overall product to the U.S. Johnston says it will be challenging for many distilleries that sell in the U.S. market to find alternative homes for their products domestically, in Europe or elsewhere.

Distilleries and spirit makers are likely to be the hardest hit among Canadian alcohol producers as the United States proposes a broad ban on Canadian booze starting later this month. Craig Johnston, chief economist at Farm Credit Canada, saysdistilleries ship more than half of their overall product to the U.S. Johnston says it will be challenging for many distilleries that sell in the U.S. market to find alternative homes for their products domestically, in Europe or elsewhere.