Afternoon front page: Carney confident of CUSMA deal; Trump accused of keeping Canada-U.S. bridge closed to help billionaire donor; and more

Prime Minister Mark Carney takes part in a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on June 25, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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It’s Thursday, June 25. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Mark Carney says CUSMA breakthrough will ultimately happen between him and Trump

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“What I have seen with the president is that you’re not close to (making) a deal, and then you make a deal,” the prime minister told reporters.

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The Gordie Howe International Bridge seen from Windsor, Ont., on June 4, 2026. Photo by Dan Janisse/Windsor Star/Postmedia

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‘Open the damn bridge’: U.S. Senate hopeful says Trump is keeping Gordie Howe bridge closed to help donor

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Matthew Moroun, a trucking magnate whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor since the 1970s, made a million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. on Jan. 16, according to campaign finance documents.

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Half of emergency patients spent four hours or less there, from the time they were registered or triaged to the time they left; 40% spent five to 14 hours, and one in 10 spent over 14 hours, an increase of 28% over 2018-19. Photo by Montreal Gazette/Postmedia/File

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Canadians are dying in emergency rooms as wait times climb to 48 hours

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While half of ER visitors waited less than five hours for a bed after the decision was made to admit them, one in 10 languished 48 hours or more in emergency before they were moved to a ward bed or an operating room.

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Christine Reio stands in front of the dig site on her property in Wainfleet, Ont. Photo by Christine Van Geyn

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Christine Van Geyn: A family found ancient remains on their property. Their nightmare was just beginning

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After finding the 1,000-year-old human remains, the Reio family “cannot live on their property, build on it or reasonably sell it. The government is requiring them to suffer financial devastation to comply with the law, and if they fail to do so, they could face jail time,” Van Geyn writes.

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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation on Jan. 19, 2023. Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images

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The Western Surrender: How New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern aped Trudeau’s nation shaming

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“If voices in Canada were invoking colonial genocide, mentioning The Hague, and effectively putting their own country on trial — and if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau found the ‘dark and shameful’ claims sufficiently compelling to keep federal flags at half-mast for nearly six months — then the least that the Kiwi gatekeepers could do was follow ideological suit,” says David Cohen.

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