G7 summit updates: Teardown begins as Kananaskis meeting wraps
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A joint statement on wildfires was released Tuesday afternoon calling for more measures to stop wildfires from spreading and extinguishing them faster, but no mention of climate change.
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Meanwhile, a strategy to shore up access to critical minerals did not explicitly mention China, but alluded to the use of export bans, controls and state subsidies to control supply chains and markets for rare earth elements and minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and copper.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced over $4 billion in funding for Ukraine on Tuesday morning, and he met with Zelenskyy in bilateral discussions.
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The Leader's Summit is a forum for open discussion, collaboration, and consensus-building on pressing global issues. Read about the #G7 priorities guiding the discussions: https://t.co/fDkiRv6sGA pic.twitter.com/zManPzkzRL
— G7 (@G7) June 17, 2025
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However, the Ukrainian leader was among those who weren't able to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump as planned.
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Trump's Air Force One left not too long after arriving in Calgary on Sunday: he departed the summit on Monday, following a dinner with the other leaders.
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Carney and Trump met Monday morning and Trump spoke about the 'different concepts of trade' he and Mark Carney have, as well as criticized the decision to remove Russia from the G8. Trump also said removing Russia from the now-G7 meetings resulted in the war with Ukraine.
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The two leaders agreed to pursue negotiations toward a deal in the coming 30 days.
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And while the Iran-Israel conflict isn't on the official schedule, the subject has become top of mind as leaders met, mixed and mingled, with the group putting out a joint statement on Monday regarding developments between Israel and Iran.
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Winnipeg Free Press
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- Winnipeg Free Press
What the Justice Department's push to bring denaturalization cases means
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Justice Department says it will prioritize certain cases The push was announced in a memo from the recently confirmed head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate. Shumate said the cases the department will prioritize include people who 'pose a potential danger to national security,' people who commit violent crimes, members of gangs and drug cartels and people who commit Medicaid fraud and other types of fraud. The benefits of the denaturalization process, Shumate wrote, 'include the government's ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to U.S. soil or traveling internationally on a U.S. passport.' 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Montreal Gazette
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- Montreal Gazette
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Toronto Star
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- Toronto Star
Carney says values being tested by attacks on democracy in Canada Day speech
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