Good morning. Protesters gathered in Minneapolis on the weekend after another shooting by federal officers left a local dead. More on that below, along with fresh tariff threats and new legal strategy. Let’s get to it.

The latest: In the wake of a second shooting death in Minneapolis by a federal agent – this time a U.S. Border Patrol officer – federal and state officials offered starkly different messages Sunday about the crackdown that has swept across Minneapolis, leaving a second resident dead. Local leaders and Democrats across the country demanded ICE and Border Patrol officers leave Minnesota, prompting more protests in a city already shaken by another shooting death just weeks earlier.

Who: Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an ICE officer on Jan. 7.

On the ground: While Minnesota is facing an immigration enforcement siege, we’ve sent reporters Joe Friesen and Adrian Morrow there to tell us how locals are feeling and to follow protests and other news.

What’s next: The confrontation between federal and state officials will move to a federal courtroom today in a case that observers say has significant implications for how power is wielded in the U.S.

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The latest: Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has no intention of pursuing a free-trade deal with China and that recent events amounted to a rectification of existing issues. He was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100-per-cent tariff on Canada if it makes a trade deal with China.

The context: In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that a trade agreement between Canada and China would result in Canadian territory being a transit point for shipping Chinese goods into the U.S. The President once again used belittling language that cast the Prime Minister as a state governor instead of the leader of a sovereign country.

What’s next: Carney told reporters that under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free-trade deal, there are commitments not to pursue free-trade agreements with non-market economies without prior notification.

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The latest: Romantic fantasy is the wildly popular TikTok-driven subgenre of romance novels in which a love story plays out in a fantasy setting. But there is an equally thrilling, lesser known category in the publishing game: a version of romantasy, but for men. Women still reportedly make up 82 per cent of these readers, but men are said to be reading the stuff more and more. Including feature writer Ian Brown, who stumbled upon The Book of I.

Who else: Romantasy has been around for decades but began selling in eye-popping numbers during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term – a stretch of time, it has been theorized, that lacked for chivalry and heroes and idealistic behaviour. The genre is also fast-paced and a relaxed read.