The National | U.S.-Canada trade talks intensify

Oct. 26, 2026 | Sources tell CBC News Canada-U.S. trade talks are intensifying but caution against U.S. efforts to 'spin' the narrative ahead of midterms. Scammers swat a Nova Scotia woman's home after she refuses to follow orders. Plus, the soaring cost of cancer drugs.

While millions of U.S. voters have become only more entrenched in their party loyalties in the era of Donald Trump, the large and growing Hispanic community has instead bucked that partisan trend. A willingness to cast ballots across party lines has made the roughly 39 million Hispanic eligible voters a crucial demographic at election time, courted equally by Democrats and Republicans.

Legalization of cannabis in Canada is having unintended and serious consequences an ocean away. Belgian customs seized 21 tonnes of Canadian cannabis in 2025 alone, exceeding illegal exports from every other country in the world.

University of Ottawa's president is acknowledging "a failure of the university" as Indigenous academics go public with allegations that a difficult work environment, poor treatment and racism at uOttawa and a lack of effort to address those problems has led multiple promising Indigenous scholars to quit.

The 2026 midterms are taking place amid attempts by the White House to use election fraud as a pretext to rewrite election rules. County clerks and voter-rights advocates are seeking ways to safeguard the results.

Democrats have hammered Republican opponents and Donald Trump's administration with midterm ads featuring a man dead for seven years, Jeffrey Epstein. Despite being a part of congressional efforts over the past year to learn more about Epstein's crimes, they are vowing to press on if they score midterm wins next week.

Canada is facing a carbon tariff threat from the European Union within months as the economic bloc fully implements its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

The Tampa Bay Rays have kept their World Series dreams alive by eking out a late-game, 4-3 win in extra innings over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4.

The Tampa Bay Rays have kept their World Series dreams alive by eking out a late-game, 4-3 win in extra innings over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4.

A dead humpback whale has been spotted in the same area where a whale was struck by a B.C. Ferries vessel last week.

Canadian music educator and musician J. Chalmers Doane and his daughter Melanie Doane tell the National about the moment friends and fellow musicians gathered in Halifax to celebrate his induction into Hawaii's Ukulele Hall of Fame.

The head of Stelco's American parent company says he's willing to sell the Hamilton-based steel plant as a dispute with the federal government looks like it's headed to the courts.

The mayoral election in Lytton, B.C., was decided by a random draw on Tuesday.

A man sentenced to prison for his role in a human smuggling case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while trying to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022 is asking the courts to modify his sentence.

A man sentenced to prison for his role in a human smuggling case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while trying to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022 is asking the courts to modify his sentence.

Pro-independence advocates seeking posts say they'll sign it, but won't abandon their long-term goals for Alberta.

Jesse Adams from Sooke, B.C., was killed while rescuing animals with Animal Rescue Kharkiv. His friends and colleagues remember him as a compassionate and kind person who loved animals.

An update to a Go Public investigation about Air Canada cancelling people’s flights due to 'safety-related maintenance,' using the perfectly good planes elsewhere, then denying passengers compensation. The federal transport minister was asked why this is allowed.

The super El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is living up to its forecast hype, and it hasn't even peaked yet. When it does, experts say its effects will be felt across Canada this winter.

Some First Nations people in Manitoba say they agree with Premier Wab Kinew that Canada should abolish the Indian Act — even if they believe it will take a long time to find a way forward.

The ongoing RCMP investigation into procurement processes and practices at Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services involves an investigation into alleged fraud, breach of trust, and money laundering, according to a letter filed in court earlier this month.

After eight years on the job, Canada's first Métis citizenship judge, Suzanne Carriere, has had her share of memorable moments, and she's been keeping track of all of them.

Ottawa's next city council will have more women than men, a historic election result that's drawing lots of happy reaction.

Ottawa's next city council will have more women than men, a historic election result that's drawing lots of happy reaction.

The first bill in the Alberta Legislature's fall sitting seeks to stop the provincial government and other public entities from considering diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring decisions, and to give victims recourse when someone shares intimate content of them without their consent.

Newfoundland and Labrador's citizens' representative says his office got a flood of complaints last week stating inmates at Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's were not being given toothbrushes.

U.S. and Cuban officials engaged in a stunning shouting match on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the latest in a series of public spats between the longtime adversaries over Washington's escalating economic campaign against Havana.

The Conservatives taking power in British Columbia could help strengthen ties between the province and Alberta, but it could also spark competition between the provincial neighbours, some analysts say.

Mitchell Moise is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after walking away from a halfway house in B.C. He is a long-term offender serving a sentence for violent offences committed almost 20 years ago in Saskatchewan.

Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne is opening an investigation into a massive Crime Stoppers data breach, his office said in a Tuesday statement. The probe is focused on Navigate 360, the U.S. third party that Crime Stoppers chapters worldwide had hired to manage and secure its anonymous tips.