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Danielle Smith will be attending Trump's inauguration next week. She has been on a diplomatic offensive of late, meeting with American elected officials and appearing on news media south of the border. She has argued that the tariffs would harm both Canadians and hit American consumers, particularly with higher gas prices at the pump.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says in a social media post that 60 firefighters from the two provinces will be deployed as soon as Monday, and that Canadian officials are working to identify and prepare more resources to send in the days ahead.

In an interview that aired Sunday on MSNBC, he said Canada is ready to respond with retaliatory tariffs should president-elect Donald Trump follow through with a threat to impose 25 per cent across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico when he takes office next week.

After a weekend spent blocking the explosive growth of fires that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area, firefighters got a slight break with calmer weather but cast a wary eye on a forecast for yet more wind.

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is expected to launch his bid to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after signalling plans through his campaign team.

Energy experts and advocates are welcoming the Ford government’s huge new energy efficiency initiative but question its partnership with Enbridge Gas, warning the initiative may contain measures to keep Ontarians on fossil fuels. A key part of the program funds the switch to heat pumps, which can save energy costs. But the program doesn’t specify which kind — and some, known as hybrid heat pumps, rely on gas to boost their power.

The Los Angeles wildfires show how blazes can spread in the most urban landscapes, too.

The federal government’s successful incentive program for zero-emissions vehicle purchases is running out of money and not slated for renewal, much to the dismay of environmental and industry groups.

A Nova Scotia landfill is “reinventing” tens of thousands of tonnes of waste to be used again as plastics, fuels and fertilizers, instead of being landfilled.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is bowing out of the race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader — making her the second cabinet minister to choose their current job over a chance to become prime minister.

The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people and burned more than 10,000 homes and other structures, officials said as they urged more people to heed evacuation orders after a new blaze ignited and quickly grew.

Last year's global average temperature easily passed 2023's record heat and kept pushing even higher. It surpassed the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) since the late 1800s that was called for by the 2015 Paris climate pact, according to the European Commission's Copernicus Climate Service, the United Kingdom's Meteorology Office and Japan's weather agency.

Neither Trudeau's announcement that he plans to resign as Liberal leader nor U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's recent rhetoric about using "economic force" to take over Canada seem to have swayed the Tory leader, who said the ballot-box question — and even his opponent -- remain the same.

Potential candidates have just two weeks to decide to run and potential voters less than three weeks to join the party in order to vote.

First-ever Canadian power purchase deal for a direct air capture plant that "scrubs” CO2 out of the atmosphere signed by UK developer Low Carbon and Montreal-based Deep Sky.