The premiers will be gathering in Ontario cottage country this week for a meeting focused on Canada’s continuing response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, and an update from Mark Carney on the state of trade and security negotiations with the U.S.

It will be the first sit down between the Prime Minister and provincial and territorial leaders since Mr. Trump threatened to impose 35-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods outside the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which are currently subjected to 25-per-cent tariffs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says securing a truce in the long-running Canada-U.S. softwood-lumber dispute is a top priority as Canadian producers brace for even heftier U.S. levies as early as September.

Mr. Carney said he hopes this could be part of an overall agreement to end the trade war with the United States – a deal he conceded earlier this week would likely not remove all of President Donald Trump’s tariffs from Canadian goods.

The Ontario government has taken control of four school boards including in Toronto and Ottawa, a move the province says stems from concerns over large deficits, depleting reserves and widespread mismanagement.

Education Minister Paul Calandra announced Friday the appointment of supervisors at the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, following investigations earlier this year.

A civil liberties group has launched a legal challenge of a controversial “bubble zone” bylaw that prohibits protests near locations such as places of worship and schools, saying it marks a disturbing trend that seeks to stifle the democratic right to speak out.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which advocates for rights and freedoms, announced Tuesday it has launched a Charter challenge of the first such bylaw to take effect in the country in Vaughan, a city of about 350,000 people north of Toronto.