As world leaders arrived in Alberta on day one of the 2025 G7 summit, the CBC's Acton Clarkin was in Banff to discover how the rocky mountain town is helping with the event.

Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers will arrive in the Canadian Rockies on Sunday for a Group of Seven summit shadowed by a widening war in the Middle East, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unresolved trade war with allies and

Canada’s Mark Carney will host world leaders in Kananaskis in coming days, with his plans for a unity G7 summit to unblock trade at the mercy of a new Mideast war and the temperament of Donald Trump.

Demonstrators gathered in front of city hall on Sunday to bring attention to a number of concerns. The G7 summit in Kananaskis runs June 15-17.

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Instead of Ukraine and Donald Trump's tariff war, the main subject of discussion for world leaders will be the Middle East.

The G7 is an informal bloc comprising seven of the world's advanced economies -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, and the United States -- along with the European Union. The annual summit serves as a platform to coordinate responses to major global economic and geopolitical challenges.

In 2018, the president called for the group to embrace Russia and stormed out of the summit. Now he is seeking to shrink America’s military role abroad and embarking on a more expansive trade war.