What to expect from trade talks between Mexico and #Canada next week.

Three key issues will likely dominate trade talks between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico next Thursday, according to one expert.

International trade lawyer John Boscar told CTV News in an interview Saturday that the two leaders will likely compare notes on what each country is going through with the Trump administration.

“Both Mexico and Canada have taken different approaches to dealing with the U.S. tariffs,” he said. “Canada is the only country to have retaliated against the U.S., other than China. Mexico chose not to retaliate against the U.S.”

Canada recently repealed many of those retaliatory duties, though some are still in place, including those regarding aluminum, steel and automotive products, amongst other products.

Mexico has indicated that it’s going to be increasing duties on automotive products from other countries in the coming weeks, particularly China and other Asian countries.

Meanwhile, Canada is considering removing its 100 per cent duties on electric vehicles from China.

Boscar said the second thing to expect from the trade talks are ways of taking a united front on certain issues around the renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) in 2026.

CUSMA is intended to reinforce Canada’s economic ties with the United States and Mexico. The U.S. will start its review of the agreement and will report to Congress in January.

Boscar said he expects there will be some issues that Canada and the U.S. can align on, including Trump’s attempt to strengthen the rules of origin, particularly on automotive goods.

The last item he says will likely dominate talks between Carney and Sheinbaum is improving trade investments between their two countries.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), CUSMA’s predecessor, was signed in 1994, and established a structure to allow free trade between Canada and Mexico, improving investments. However, Boscar thinks there’s still a lot of room for more improvement in that area and that both Canada and Mexico are focused on the issues now because they’re obligated to.

Before this year, it was very easy for Canadian exporters and investors to deal with the U.S., due to its proximity, shared language and the high percentage of goods being traded across the border.

“I do think Canadian companies have not really been forced to look at other markets until the Trump tariff threat of this year,” he said. “And now, they’re really being forced to look at that.”

Boscar added that if the Canadian and Mexican governments recognize that, they can think of ways to facilitate trade investments in both directions.

You can watch the full interview with international trade lawyer John Boscar in the video player at the top of this article.

#news: Charlie Kirk’s social media accounts have gained millions of followers since his murder.


Charlie Kirk’s widow and many of his fans have predicted that Wednesday’s assassination will make his voice even more powerful posthumously.

Social media statistics indicate that they’re right.

Kirk’s accounts across the internet have gained millions of followers in the three days since his death, according to data compiled by CNN.

Videos of Kirk’s political arguments, promoting President Trump and conservative priorities, have also seen a surge in viewership, with many clips being traded back and forth by fans.

As Kirk’s widow Erika said Friday evening, “My husband’s voice will remain, and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever, and his wisdom will endure.” So will his organization Turning Point USA’s overall digital presence, as the uptick in follower interest signals.

Kirk’s main Instagram account has added 3.5 million followers since the assassination; his podcast’s TikTok account has gained more than 1.5 million followers; and his main Facebook page has added more than 2.3 million followers.

On YouTube, Kirk’s primary channel now has 4.5 million subscribers, up from 3.8 million before he was killed.

The YouTube audience for his organization Turning Point USA has also grown, with 3.6 million subscribers now, up from 3.3 million.

Kirk’s social media accounts, which were operated with the help of his staff, have been mostly dormant since the assassination. Data from SocialBlade, an analytics service, shows a big spike in video views and likes of the preexisting content since Wednesday.

Erika’s address was livestreamed on his main YouTube channel, and it has been viewed upwards of 3.1 million times on YouTube since.

“Charlie, I promise I will never let your legacy die, baby,” she said. “I promise I’ll make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen.”

She also said his planned tour of college campuses this semester will still take place.

YouTube videos of Kirk’s past interactions on campuses have drawn millions of new viewers in recent days.

The most recent video posted by his account, “Charlie Kirk Hands Out Huge L’s at University of California San Diego,” now has 4 million views, up from 300,000 before the shooting.

Another campus debate video, “Charlie Kirk Crushes Woke Lies at Michigan State,” has now topped 1 million views, up from 250,000.

The vast majority of the most-liked comments below the video are mournful — not full of rage or fomenting calls for revenge, like some far-right influencers have expressed in other forums.

Kirk’s website has also introduced a new product to its online store: A T-shirt that says “I AM #CHARLIE #KIRK.”

Those four words have become a rallying cry among Kirk fans on social media platforms since his death.

Many Nigerians are commending President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the role he played during the burial of his predecessor, former President Muhammadu Buhari, who was laid to rest on Tuesday. #Nigeria

#Kenya’s president says ‘enough is enough’ and vows to end anti-government protests.

President William Ruto said “enough is enough” and that he would not allow “anarchy” in the country disguised as peaceful demonstrations.

“Anyone going to burn people’s property should be shot in the leg, be hospitalized and later taken to court upon recovery. Do not kill them but break their leg,” he said while touring a site in Nairobi for one of his administration’s affordable housing projects.

Weeks of protests have rocked Kenya after a blogger died in police custody last month, angering many Kenyans. Tensions heightened after a policeman shot a civilian at close range during one of the demonstrations against police brutality. Thousands turned out for protests on June 25, which coincided with the one-year anniversary of huge anti-tax protests.

On Monday, police erected roadblocks on all roads leading to the city center in the capital, Nairobi, blocking motorists and pedestrians deemed not to be in essential work. Police clashed with protesters on the outskirts of the city and in 17 of 47 counties across the country, leaving 31 people dead and more than 100 injured. More than 500 others were arrested.

A total of 50 people have died in the past two weeks during two separate waves of demonstrations. The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, on Tuesday urged that the grievances leading to the protests are addressed.

Ruto on Wednesday claimed the discontent was politically motivated and said that he would not allow destruction of property.

“You can call me whatever names you want to call me, but I will make sure there is peace and stability in Kenya by all means,” Ruto said.

The president read a riot act to his political rivals who he said wanted to overthrow his government through violence, adding that “anyone who attacks a police station, that is a declaration of war.”

“This is a democratic country, and the citizens are the ones who determine its leadership through an election. We cannot decide leadership through violence,” Ruto said.

Mong’are Okong’o, a lawyer and politician, condemned Ruto’s comments as “a reckless tragedy in waiting.”

“Has he considered the biological trauma of bullet wounds, shattered bones, severed arteries, permanent disability?” he said. “Such commands undermine due process and escalate brutality. A president should uphold life and law, not casually prescribe violence with irreversible consequences. Leadership demands wisdom, not war talk.”

Civil society groups have repeatedly called for restraint by police during demonstrations. Five police officers were recently charged in court over the death of a blogger in custody and the close-range shooting of a civilian. The deputy police inspector general Eliud Langat, who had filed a complaint about the blogger’s social media posts accusing him of corruption, has since stepped aside as investigations continue.

At least 40 Afrikaners who have been granted refugee status by the United States have arrived at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and are currently being checked in for their private charter flight to the States later this evening.

The mystery of an 18th-century Austrian mummy might finally be solved, according to a new study unravelling the “little-known” methods that have preserved his remains for more than 200 years.

Published at the beginning of May in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, the joint project by scientists in Austria, Germany and Poland took on the case of the “Air-Dried Chaplain,” a mummified cadaver that has attracted tourists and researchers alike to a small village in the country’s north for many decades.

Shrouded in ancient rumours of “healing miracles,” the state of the body has long drawn speculation. Everything from acids seeping into the body from its coffin, to radiation, to simple good luck and favourable conditions have been pitched to explain its status, described by one scientist as “unusually well-preserved.”

The 2025 study launched the most detailed analysis of the chaplain yet, including an autopsy, CT scan and myriad other forensic experiments. Its results, researchers say, provide “certainty” of the chaplain’s identity and produce a number of clues about how he lived, died and remained in one piece for so many years.

A body of evidence

Based on the exhaustive review of his remains, scientists have concluded the chaplain was most likely Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg, an aristocrat and vicar believed to have died in 1746, who was interred in the years since at the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, west of Vienna.

Born in 1709, Sidler joined the clergy at a young age, and was later assigned to St. Thomas to serve as a parish vicar. Researchers say this basic biography is consistent with the chaplain’s remains, which displayed a high-quality diet and no signs of hard manual labour.

Records of correspondence with another monastery places his death at 37 years old, and while this matches the chaplain’s estimated age at death of between 35 and 45, the documents fail to explain how Sidler died so young, leaving further mysteries to solve.

While an X-ray of the body in the year 2000 showed a small capsule inside his body that some theorized could be poisonous, further examination of the mummy’s remains revealed a likely culprit in one of history’s most prolific killers: tuberculosis.

Sidler’s lungs appear to have been inflamed and calcified in places, both signs of the disease, the study says, and marks seemingly left by a belt around his waist suggest he may have lost a significant amount of weight late in life, which could be expected in the case of a disease like chronic tuberculosis.

Based in part on small particles of coal found in his airway, as well as how his teeth retracted in one area of his bite, it’s also likely he smoked a pipe, scientists say.

“In total, we have good evidence that he died of acute severe pulmonary hemorrhage due to destruction of lung vessels by an ongoing infection,” the study reads.

Posthumous popularity

While researchers say little more is known about Sidler’s life, his story took on new significance after he died, in large part because of how well his body has survived the centuries.

Rumours have it that he was initially buried in a local cemetery, but that he was exhumed and transferred to the church crypt years later, where talk spread of “several healing miracles” associated with his burial.

By the mid-1800s, he had become a local attraction, prominent enough to feature in a guidebook for tourists to the region, and while experts in mummification later visited Sidler to photograph and examine his remains, no clear scientific explanation emerged.

It wasn’t until the 2025 study that scientists were surprised to discover Sidler’s abdomen was “filled with considerable amounts of a mixed foreign material” that did not appear in prior X-rays, including “wood chips, fragmented twigs, large amounts of fabric of various types including elaborate embroidered linen, and even pieces of silk,” as well as high concentrations of zinc.

The researchers say zinc chloride has antimicrobial and disinfecting properties, and could have helped Sidler’s body rapidly dry from the inside out. The mass of objects in his abdomen could also have prevented his torso from collapsing over time, and the fabrics and wood may have absorbed fluids as he decomposed.

“The evidence suggests that the preservation was performed to avoid the spread of infection by miasma,” the study reads. “Possible later opening of the coffin or relocation of the human remains would have found a remarkably intact corpse and could easily result in miraculous beliefs by the local population.”

Scientists say this specific form of embalming, which appears to have involved inserting the packing rectally instead of by cutting open the body, does not appear elsewhere in the historical record, to their knowledge.

“Needless-to-say,” it concludes, “future investigations of crypt burials should take note of this unusual type of embalming when undertaking planned analyses of human remains.”

#Ugandan opposition member held by president's son shows signs of torture

Sudan's military on Sunday said the eastern, coastal city of Port #Sudan, the government's temporary seat of power since the war broke out in 2023, had been attacked by paramilitaries in a drone strike.

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