G7

As climate change warms the oceans and melts polar ice, rising the seas and provoking extreme storms, G7 members have found themselves unable to share basic facts about their promise to kill off government handouts to carbon-polluting industries.

If some governments won’t yet play ball, Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna suggested there are plenty of other players.

The federal government has taken a step towards fulfilling it's promise to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies by agreeing to finally explain how much it actually spends on them.

The deal that emerged from the Trump-Kim summit has been criticized as having weaker language than in past North Korean negotiations. It turns out, it also has weaker language than the G7 statement that the Americans endorsed right before Trump fled Canada for Singapore.

Donald Trump's trade adviser is apologizing for saying there's a "special place in hell" for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because of his "bad-faith diplomacy" during the G7 summit in Quebec.

It's been a crazy week in politics. Here's an analysis of influences and voices beyond borders, with National Observer's Editor-in-Chief.

The tense G7 summit in Quebec ended with a dramatic thud Saturday, when minutes after Canada released the text of a joint statement signed by all leaders, U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew his nation's support in a tweet.

Expecting protests in Quebec City during the G7 Summit in Charlevoix, authorities beefed up security with an army of 8,000 security officers from municipal, provincial and federal police forces. But the protests were rather small and tame, compared to what has been seen at previous gatherings of world leaders.

As quick as the visit from President Trump has been, it has also been a whirlwind of astonishing actions by the leader of the world’s most powerful nation.

Chrystia Freeland said G7 negotiators are still working to finalize the statement, known as a communiqué, almost halfway through the two-day summit hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Quebec.

'No,' came the blunt response from McKenna, speaking to reporters at the G7 summit in Quebec, on the first day of the two-day summit of advanced industrialized nations.

IKEA moved to ban single-use plastics on Friday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off the G7 summit in Quebec where he is pushing for a charter to reduce plastic waste pollution in the world's oceans.

“I have been Russia’s worst nightmare...but with that being said, Russia should be in this meeting,” Trump said Friday at the White House, according to press reports. “It may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run...they should let Russia back in.”

The U.S. president would have been included in a G7 working session devoted to "climate change and clean energy" on the second day of the summit, officials had confirmed this week.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he is "getting ready to go to the G7 in Canada to fight for our country on trade."