Poilievre calls for U.S. trade results, not concessions; the disturbing trends behind Not Criminally Responsible rulings; and more

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre takes part in a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on June 25, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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It’s Thursday, August 6. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Poilievre says Carney needs to deliver ‘results that he promised’ in U.S. trade talks

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“I don’t understand the strategy of making concession after concession after concession before even getting to the negotiating table,” Poilievre said.

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Ana Paula Kitterhing De Sousa was fatally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend, Michael Calvo, in her home in 2023. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

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Not Criminally Responsible: The broken system behind the killers who don’t go to jail

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An analysis of NCR cases by the Investigative Journalism Bureau reveals three major themes: repeated failures by the health-care system to act in the face of persistent red flags before the killings took place; the conspicuous role of cannabis as a unique driver of the mental-health crises that result in fatal violence; and the disproportionate targeting of women — especially mothers — who are killed after making repeated pleas to health-care workers to help their mentally ill child.

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Fae Johnstone, executive director of Momentum. Photo by TONY CALDWELL/Postmedia

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Amy Hamm: ‘Ask a Trans Person Anything’ hosts barred me from asking anything at all

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“This is your chance to get your questions answered — yes, even the tough ones. We won’t cancel you. Instead, we’ll give you our honest takes,” read a description of the event. But Hamm’s ticket was revoked and she was barred from entering. “(The organizers) can turn all their critics away at the door,” she writes. “They’re not doing themselves any favours, though, because the truth itself can never be cancelled.”

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The A. Grenville and William Davis Superior Court of Justice in Brampton, Ont. Photo by Aaron Lynett/National Post/File

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Ontario man who pimped out and impregnated a teen sentenced to one more day in jail

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“He served 44 days of his sentence in lockdown at the Maplehurst Detention Centre. He was also triple bunked for 49 days. He is entitled to mitigation of his sentence for that fact. The terrible conditions of incarceration which persist at that institution are all too well known,” the judge wrote in his decision.

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Police in Florida have charged a Canadian woman after allegedly finding 12 fake IDs in her possession during a traffic stop. Photo by Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office/X

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Canadian woman on expired visa caught with a dozen fake IDs, Florida police say

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The woman was charged with the fraudulent use of personal information, giving a false name to deputies and not having a valid driver’s licence. Police say of the dozen fake IDs, 11 were Pennsylvania driver’s licences, one was from Georgia and all of them “contained the same photograph of the defendant, but each with different names and birthdays.”

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The U.S. Capitol, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are seen through haze caused by wildfire smoke from Canada, from the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia on July 17, 2026. Photo by KENT NISHIMURA/AFP via Getty Images

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As Trump readies wildfire retaliation, there’s no silver bullet for forest management

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When it comes to its forests, Canada has a scale problem: it has far more forest, fewer people, and remote boreal areas where lightning-started fires can be nearly impossible to reach. But the experts say that even if Canada is able to start managing its forests properly, with rising temperatures “we are going to be living with more and more fire.”

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