 Good morning! This is Hanna Lee.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump are meeting at the White House today. We'll have more on those high-stakes talks below. Then, we'll look at how Trump's latest threatened tariffs would impact Canada's film industry, and more updates from Alberta.
Also, the NDP has chosen British Columbia MP Don Davies as interim leader. Davies has represented the riding of Vancouver Kingsway since 2008. | | | Carney to meet with Trump for high-stakes meeting at the White House today
| | |  | Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Washington, D.C., on Monday ahead of his White House meeting scheduled for Tuesday. He is seen here departing from Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
| Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House today, as Canada-U.S. relations reach their lowest point in decades.
High stakes: The Liberals under Carney won last week's election in part because of his promise to defend Canada in the face of Trump's annexation and tariff threats. Now, Canadians will be expecting him to deliver and show his government can bring a chaotic era to a close.
The situation so far: Carney has set low expectations for the meeting, saying it may be a while before the two countries reach any sort of agreement. A senior government official told the CBC this is the first of what will likely be a series of meetings between the leaders to create a new partnership. Carney will also have some time alone with the president, where they'll begin getting acquainted and improving relations. Meanwhile, Trump has told reporters he's "not sure what [Carney] wants to see me about."
Here's a link to our livestream if you'd like to follow along, starting 10 a.m. ET. | | | | | | | | | | | After Trump vows tariffs on foreign movies, the Canadian film industry says he's lost the plot
| | |  | Crew members prepare to film actor Colin Hanks on the set of the TV series Fargo in Calgary in March 2014. Trump says he wants to put a 100 per cent tariff on movies produced in other countries, though the details remain murky. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
| Trump also recently announced he'll place a 100 per cent tariff on movies produced outside of his country. This has the potential to devastate the Canadian film industry — but experts are also wondering how such a tax would even be implemented.
An intertwined industry: Like many others, the global film sector is heavily interconnected. Films are rarely produced in a single country — take, for example, The Apprentice, the 2024 Trump biopic. Though ostensibly set in American locales like New York City and Palm Beach, the film was partially shot in Ontario. Filmmakers from Guillermo Del Toro to Christopher Nolan have shot multiple movies in Canada, as well. | | | | | | | The Canadian situation: Canada is highly appealing to U.S. film producers, as our workforce is highly skilled, but costs less to pay. Major cities like Toronto, Montreal and Calgary are often used as stand-ins for global municipalities. In Toronto alone, U.S. film production creates 30,000 jobs and $2.6 billion in economic impact. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government offers a 16 per cent refundable tax credit, and provinces have their own incentives on top of that.
Who would pay? That's a good question. Audiences likely wouldn't be on board for higher fees at the movie theatre, so owners would likely pay the extra costs themselves, or split them with a distributor. That would make production more expensive — and that doesn't even cover the potential impact of any retaliatory tariffs. | | | | | | | Alberta premier to chair sovereignty panel, put proposals to 2026 referendum
| | |  | Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gave a video address on Monday to outline the province's next steps following the Liberal win in the federal election. (Government of Alberta)
| Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is chairing a panel looking at how the province can protect itself from perceived economic incursions from the federal government.
The secession issue: Albertans will be able to vote on the more popular proposals discussed at the panel during a 2026 referendum. While the provincial government has no plans to put the secession question on the ballot, it will appear if citizens can get enough signatures to require it, Smith said. She also added that she herself doesn't support Alberta's separation from Canada — and that any referendum question must respect the rights of Indigenous people and Treaties 6, 7 and 8.
Updated demands: Smith also issued an updated list of demands that she says the Liberal government must meet to show Albertans respect. That includes providing the province with the same per-capita equalization transfers as the other large provinces — Quebec, Ontario and B.C.
| | | | | | | | | In case you missed it
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- The search for two missing children in Pictou County, N.S., continues. Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, have been missing since Friday morning.
- A dead man's eight-year-old water bill has come back to haunt the Ottawa property's new owner — with interest.
- Portugal's caretaker government is planning to expel some 18,000 foreigners living there without authorization — but it says it's not because of the country's upcoming election, or Donald Trump.
- MPs cannot resign their seat until 30 days after their election result is published in the Canada Gazette, the federal government's official publication. That means Pierre Poilievre will have to wait to run in the byelection to replace Damien Kurek, who stepped aside for him to do so.
| | | | | | | And in today's good news of the day...
| | | How friendship centres support, heal and connect urban Indigenous people
| | |  | Elder Marjorie Muise is pictured third from the right, alongside fellow elders from First Light, a friendship centre in St. John's. (Submitted by Leah Randell)
| A decade ago, Mi'kmaw elder Marjorie Muise moved from the small town of St. George's, N.L., to the bustling city of St. John's.
The shift left her feeling overwhelmed and out of place, disconnected from the culture and traditions that had always been a part of her life.
It was through attending First Light, an Indigenous-led friendship centre in St. John's, that she found a path back to the community and ceremonies she had lost.
It's part of a network of 125 such friendship centres across Canada; these Indigenous-led community hubs offer culturally appropriate programs and support services for Indigenous people living in urban areas. | | | | | | | | | | | Today in History: May 6
| | | 1937: The Hindenburg, a German hydrogen-filled airship, burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J. Nearly 40 people on board died.
1960: Princess Margaret marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
2001: Pope John Paul II prays at a mosque in Damascus, Syria. He was the first Catholic Church leader to pray in an Islamic house of worship.
| | | (With files from The Canadian Press, The Associated Press and Reuters)
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