Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
Mark Carney used a speech in New York City to merge his own favourite slogan with Donald Trump's. "Canada Strong will help make America great again," the prime minister said, attempting to add a positive spin to a phrase often used as a slur in Canadian politics. Carney also said in speech that it didn't make sense for the US to build its own energy capacity to power the technological revolution when it could use Canadian energy. Responding to Carney's "make American great again" comment, US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said said "a lot of Americans can get behind that kind of positive message."
WATCH: Prime Minister @MarkJCarney tells a New York audience that "Canada strong will help make America great again.” pic.twitter.com/ER2VwHJJWA
— TrendingPolitics.ca (@TrendPolCa) May 28, 2026
A ruling in New Brunswick that Aboriginal title cannot be declared over private land has been allowed to stand by the Supreme Court of Canada. BC Attorney General Niki Sharma said the decision creates a "clear path" for the province to win its appeal against the controversial Cowichan Tribes case, which has cast doubt on property rights in BC.
Aboriginal title can't apply to private land, Supreme Court of Canada decides https://t.co/Nzt24bNc6K
— Times Colonist (@timescolonist) May 28, 2026
A new pipeline carrying a million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the BC coast will require investment of more than $100 billion, the CEO of Imperial Oil has said. That will include growing production, making commitments on shipping and paying for a multi-billion-dollar carbon capture project forced on the industry by Mark Carney.
Alberta's proposed pipeline to B.C. will cost sector $100 billion: Imperial CEOhttps://t.co/KCdP0FMl0Y
— Financial Post (@financialpost) May 28, 2026
A notorious Indian gang boasted to police in BC last year that it had 1,000 soldiers willing to commit violence, a police officer said on Thursday. Const. Kevin St. Louis told the Immigration and Refugee Board that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang made the threat in a letter delivered to police in Abbotsford in August of 2025. “This specific letter outlined essentially their criminal organization, where they talked about having upwards of 1,000 individuals that are willing to carry out these shootings as a part of the group," St. Louis said. “It also alludes to how every business needs to pay their tax, which I think clearly demonstrates the monetary gain that this group is looking to obtain as a result of these extortions.” St Louis also revealed information about the gang's members, explaining that "every individual that we’ve identified during this investigation ... is a temporary foreign worker or on a student visa and relatively new to Canada."
Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police boasting it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings. https://t.co/5pi2Z2T66X
— Stewart Bell (@StewGlobal) May 28, 2026
The Liberal government has insisted it doesn't have the authority to overturn the decision by the CRTC to force streamers to spend 15 per cent of their Canadian revenues on Canadian content. The Tories had told the Liberals to "reject" the ruling – which has been met with fury and dismay by some media companies – but the governing party said the Broadcasting Act does not grant the government such a power.
Liberals say they can't overturn decision tripling streamers' Cancon contributions https://t.co/iz7Or8VL1q #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch
— National Newswatch (@natnewswatch) May 28, 2026
