U.S. President chastises Canadian leaders, says Canada has 'taken advantage' of U.S. U.S. President Donald Trump's war of words with Canada continued Wednesday as he veered off a prepared script at an event marking Hispanic Heritage Month in the States to chastise Canadian leaders for being what he called "very bad." Speaking at the White House, Trump said the U.S...
From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations. The EU and Canada will use a landmark summit next month to announce an expansive new partnership, ranging from breaking down digital trade barriers to joint support for Ukraine and investing in fighting wildfires. "The world is rapidly changing with unprecedented geopolitical...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada's federal government will "use all powers that we have" against the U.S. owner of an Ontario steel plant that announced hundreds of layoffs on Monday. Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its plan to cut up to 500 jobs in Hamilton with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada.
Conservative MP Scott Aitchison has officially announced he’s resigning his seat following the conclusion of the fall parliamentary sitting. In a letter posted on social media on Wednesday, the 53-year-old said, “it is time for a new chapter where I will explore new opportunities.” Aitchison most recently served as the Conservatives’ housing critic and said the role, “allowed me to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's important to reflect on a "dark chapter" in Canada's history and honour the children who survived residential schools and those who never made it home. He made the comment today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, at a ceremony featuring drumming and traditional dancers at Fort Edmonton Park.
Canada’s federal political landscape remains defined by a significant gap between the Liberals and their rivals, according to the latest weekly tracking. Liberal support stands at just under 50 per cent nationally, while the Conservatives remain in second place and the NDP trailing. The findings suggest that voter preferences have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, with little evidence of...
A new Liaison Strategies British Columbia Poll finds the BC Conservatives at 40% and the BC NDP at 39% among decided and leaning voters, putting the parties virtually level. The Conservatives are up four points and the NDP down two from Liaison's September 23 release. The close provincial race is unfolding alongside municipal election campaigns, raising the prospect of duelling...
As unions and labour critics loudly decried the Liberals' new Building Canada Strong Act as an attack on workers' right to strike last week, industry sources say their more reserved reaction stems from “frustration” that the bill falls short of providing...
Canada's fisheries minister urged France on Wednesday to abandon a plan to launch a snow crab fishery in waters near Newfoundland and the French territory of St-Pierre-Miquelon. Joanne Thompson said France made no mention of its plan to Canadian officials, despite Prime Minister Mark Carney visiting French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month in St-Pierre-Miquelon, a small archipelago about 2...
These are unusual times. There’s a trade war on, given special intensity by Donald Trump’s threats to use “economic force” to bend Canada to his will. To counter the U.S. administration’s crude attempts to divert capital south of the border, governments across the country are mobilizing resources in ways they might not otherwise contemplate. A sort-of wartime economy, fit for...
Mark Carney has managed to fashion a surprisingly workable peace with provincial premiers. But it’s hard to imagine that peace will reign across the land after next week’s Quebec election. The Parti Québécois is about to take power again, for the first time in more than a dozen years, and it’s not just the possibility of an eventual referendum on...
For Prime Minister Mark Carney, yesterday was the sort of day he might look back on fondly from the other side of his political honeymoon. As he stood in Vancouver and announced that LNG Canada is moving forward with its $33 billion Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C., Carney’s approval rating had just hit a new high of 6...
There is no shortage of commentary across multiple media platforms on the subject of U.S. President Donald Trump as a bully. Indeed, reading the stream of entries, it is fair to say there is a strong consensus that this is what and who the man is. Whatever his origin story, whatever he endured as a child (and there is plenty...
B.C. NDP Leader David Eby is a shrewd, confident competitor. He will challenge anyone currently suffering from a stomach virus to a hot-dog-eating contest. He will dare any chess champion to a tournament when they are sleeping. Mr. Eby will tackle a bear in a cage (from the outside, without actually touching the bear), or wrestle any and all comatose...
To the group of masked white-nationalist cowards who trespassed on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation to strike fear into the hearts of people living there: we can only hope the full force of the law catches up to you in short order. It should happen quickly. The group of flag-waving thugs with their white face masks and black uniforms...
The north remembers. Right now, that’s not just a catchphrase from the hit American television show about dragons and thrones. It’s also a fact for millions of Canadians stuck dealing with a second Trump administration that routinely threatens our cultural sovereignty and political independence with economic warfare. No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 202...
Quebec and Alberta may have more in common than anyone suspected — at least when it comes to seceding from Canada. In both provinces, over 70 per cent of voters oppose separation, a question that is animating both the Quebec election and the Alberta referendum campaign. The two votes come to a head Oct. 5 and 19, respectively, and their...
Had to do it. Had to toss the political puzzler Premier Danielle Smith's way Monday. After all, the latest poll from late last week shows support for Smith and the UCP dropping in Calgary, now trailing Naheed Nenshi in the city by several points. Yes, trailing Nenshi in Calgary. The UCP and NDP are tied in the province.
The return of Parliament and, especially, of Question Period last week underscores an urgent national problem: this country desperately needs a good opposition. Even one. Instead, we get sustained bile, messages hollered from the balcony, smear tactics, and scripted questions delivered with all the genuine passion of a hostage video. This is not just a token nod to the vital...
PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS LEADER Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has a dim view of the province he wishes to make a country. Quebec, he says, is at once threatened by creeping Islamism and a radical leftist cabal bent on prosecuting the nation-to-be for an array of purported crimes, racism chief among them. Aping internet trolls and MAGA Republicans, he has taken to labelling...
It’s easy to miss the holes in Canada’s social support systems until you really need that safety net. While many Canadians take pride in programs such as public health insurance or Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, the current reality often falls far short of their legacy reputations. EI benefits have been outdated for a long time. But now, as the U.S...
“Even when Trump moves on, another Trump will eventually come along. That is why it is better to truly break free and become independent, even if it means suffering for a while.” It’s a sentiment that has become ubiquitous among Canadians over the past year. It has bubbled up in coffeeshop chatter, in flags springing up on front lawns and...
Parliament is back with a substantive legislative agenda that reminds us: Democracy is nothing without accountability. For shame, then, that His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is distracted by internal schisms and online echo chambers. This fall, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives must gain a foothold. The party’s own MPs know it. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman told reporters, “This is not the position...
When Kerry-Lynne Findlay abruptly resigned as leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia last Sunday, B.C. Premier David Eby’s New Democrats were almost certainly popping champagne corks. After less than four months of Findlay’s tenure — marked by bizarre backroom machinations, hard-right staff hirings and a catastrophic exodus of 14 MLAs — the official opposition looked broken. With a...
There’s a certain water-is-wet quality to noting the furious pace of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. The busyness feels less like a byproduct than a self-conscious mission statement, even a dare: this is how we roll, so keep up or get left behind. Even by those standards, the past two weeks have been frenetic. There was the investment summit in...
After a year of threatening to seize Greenland by force, Donald Trump has inked a deal to extend indefinite American influence over the autonomous Danish territory. It’s “a dream come true for the United States of America,” the president posted on social media this week. A day earlier, Prime Minister Mark Carney made his own announcement: Canada would be joining...
We’ve known for months that Canada’s Armed Forces have done some thinking about the admittedly remote possibility that Donald Trump’s United States might launch some kind of military action against this country. Anonymous government officials told the Globe and Mail back in January that the military had modelled a “hypothetical” U.S. invasion, apparently for the first time in a century...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has a “very clear mandate” from the April 2025 election. Reinforced by floor crossings and byelection victories, Carney’s majority gives his government the right to pass the Building Canada Strong Act, a sweeping 246-page bill dealing with major projects, environmental assessments and federal labour law. It’s true that we need new ports, rail corridors...
Thanks to the New York Times, Canada now knows that Mark Carney was preparing for the risk of military action arising out of Donald Trump’s 51st-state threats. That’s a major acknowledgment for the prime minister to make — perhaps one that he might have shared first with Canadians?
The province of British Columbia is having an election, barely two years after the last. There is, it is commonly acknowledged, no pressing matter in the public interest that obliged Premier David Eby to call it. He has called the election now, two years before its scheduled date under the province’s fixed-election-date law, for one reason only: to take advantage...
“Our people hate trade deals. Like, they f—king hate them. Do you understand?” The morning meetings between the prime minister’s top advisers were sometimes punchy affairs. But it was also where the government was connected to the political party guiding said government. The verbatim(ish) quote above was the kind of thing said by the person tasked with reporting what the...
A New Brunswick MP says a truck carrying supplies to the isolated community of Campobello Island was held at the U.S. border Tuesday. The truck was carrying Canadian milk and alcohol on the same day a U.S. ban on imports of both products came into effect as part of the ongoing trade war. The island can only be reached by...
International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is expected to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Wisconsin this week. Sidhu's spokesperson says a specific time and format for that conversation have not been set. Sidhu also has bilateral meetings scheduled for today with the trade ministers for France, Australia and Turkey, and is meeting...
A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew staged a dramatic intervention to subdue the attacker and the plane eventually made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The FlyDubai flight travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed safely after...
Mark Carney built a global profile in 2026 by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump. If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Carney briefly became the favorite Monday for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Kalshi, a...
ust weeks after winning a lucrative government contract to supply thousands of drones to the Canadian Armed Forces, a Saskatchewan-based company announced a major investment from a high-profile American backer. Draganfly, a leader in cutting-edge drone solutions, announced this week it received a $10-million investment from an unnamed American firm and Unusual Machines, a company backed by Donald Trump Jr.
Conservative MP Scott Aitchison is resigning his seat from Parliament by the end of the year, according to a source close to him. The source tells CTV News that after being in elected office for 30 years, Aitchison will be stepping back to pursue other opportunities. CTV News has also learned that Aitchison informed Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about his...
Prime Minister Mark Carney appealed to common values like democracy and reliability when he called for deeper trade and defence ties at the European Parliament earlier this month. But some experts say with the rise of far-right parties on the continent, key European allies may not always share those values — and Canada should keep that possibility in mind as...
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a terse rebuke Tuesday to steelmaker Stelco and its parent company for breaching “legal obligations” to maintain jobs in Canada, saying Ottawa will pursue legal action against the company if it fails to meet those obligations. The day after Stelco Holdings announced it would lay off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has a new club of countries forming his envisioned alliance of middle powers, but observers say more details are needed about what the bloc will do. At the beginning of the year in Davos, Switzerland, Carney (Nepean, Ont.) highlighted his idea for middle powers coming together amid a world of superpower competition. That work continued to...
When Wilton Littlechild was co-chairing the landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission more than a decade ago, he thought a lot about the idea of economic reconciliation and how it could help transform Indigenous communities. "You may have the best ideas in the world but without a fundamental grounding and foundation to self-determination, you're missing a very important part," Littlechild said...
Indigenous leaders struck a resolute tone Wednesday as the country marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation following reports of a white supremacist demonstration in a First Nations community in the B.C. interior. "Survivors have fought for decades to defend their truths and confront the distortion of history, while our legal system still fails to recognize denialism for what...
Long-term, sustained funding and a “Building Canda strong” strategy that doesn’t neglect or overshadow Ottawa’s commitments to Indigenous Peoples are among the important steps towards reconciliation as the country faces a time of economic uncertainty, according to advocates. “In recent years, the federal focus may have shifted toward economic growth and our shared sovereignty, but the federal government must never...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he has no plans to apply new trade pressure on the U.S. as Americans prepare for crucial midterm elections that could end Republican control of Congress. Speaking with reporters at a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Carney said Canada has no intention of escalating the trade war, although he noted he never rules...
Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto a chair Tuesday at a photo opportunity after a multibillion-dollar LNG announcement and came eye-to-eye with the six-foot-seven-inch David Eby, making both leaders laugh. But it's the British Columbia NDP leader's election campaign that got a boost with the announcement of the $33-billion Phase 2 expansion of LNG Canada's liquefied natural gas export terminal...
The partners behind Canada's first liquefied natural gas export terminal are proceeding with a project that would double its capacity as countries around the globe clamour for reliable sources of energy. LNG Canada announced Tuesday that it has made a final investment decision to go ahead with the Phase 2 expansion of its facility in Kitimat, B.C., which would bring...
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his cross-border trade war Tuesday as his outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods took effect, putting the brakes on new shipments of most Canadian-made booze, dairy byproducts and some motorcycles. The bans mark the latest escalation of the trade war as the Trump administration seeks to pressure Canada into trade concessions. Canada-U.S. Trade...
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says the multibillion-dollar expansion of a liquefied natural gas export terminal off the northern coast will create jobs and change lives as his party takes credit for the project with the provincial election entering its second week. Eby smiled as he stepped onto a stage in Vancouver shortly after Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government is making a new $1.2 billion investment in ocean conservation as the country inches toward a decision on a new West Coast pipeline. Speaking in Vancouver today, Carney said the funds will go to several new measures, including an expansion of the Canadian Coast Guard's capacity to monitor marine traffic and a national...
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country would do to impact the vote. Peter Navarro, who has lashed out at Canada in the past, made these latest remarks during a talk at an economic conference in...
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak on national unity tonight in Edmonton, with less than three weeks to go until Albertans vote on separation. Poilievre is to deliver a keynote speech for a stronger Alberta within a United Canada. Earlier in the day, he's scheduled to speak at a fundraiser for Conservatives for Canada, a group of...
Alberta business leaders have signed on to an open letter from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce warning of the dire economic consequences if the province were to separate from Canada. "We must remain at the table and prioritize relationships, opportunities and stability that have helped make this province and this country prosperous," reads the letter released Tuesday along with an...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says that with Canada's immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a "controlled increase" of the country's population. "Now the question starts to become, when do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada?" Carney told the New York Times. "So that will happen, and...
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby's election campaign is expecting a boost today as Prime Minster Mark Carney makes an energy announcement in Vancouver. LNG Canada said earlier today that it will go ahead with the multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion of its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. The expansion would double LNG Canada's capacity to 28 million...
aniel Robson almost became a budding star in Canadian conservative media. Prolific and quick off the mark, he consistently filed fine opinion pieces calling out Canadian authorities over tighter immigration policies, warning against increasing pro-Palestine protests, pointing fingers at Moroccan dissidents, and at anyone with whom they do business, including a simple Turkish tradesman. There was just one problem: Daniel...
U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with Canada with outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods. Trump's previously announced bans -- which affect some alcoholic drinks, dairy byproducts and motorcycles, among other goods -- came into force at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday. Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc's office said Monday the government's top priority remains "protecting...
As yet, the government hasn’t attempted to impose a deadline on the opening round of debate on Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon’s omnibus bid to further streamline — and accelerate — the project approval process, as well as overhaul the federal labour laws. Dubbed the Building Canada Strong Act by its ministerial sponsor, the 246-page bill — which Prime Minister Mark...
Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives have chosen legislature member Konrad Narth as interim party leader. Narth, who represents La Verendrye in the province's southeast, quickly spoke with reporters after a closed door caucus meeting. He says the party is united and will select a new leader at a later date. His appointment comes after Obby Khan on Monday abruptly stepped down as...
LNG Canada says it will go ahead with the Phase 2 expansion project at its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Kitimat, B.C. The expansion will double LNG Canada's capacity to 28 million tonnes a year. It is one of the five initial projects that was referred to Ottawa's major projects office last year. LNG Canada CEO Chris Cooper says...
Canada’s federal political landscape remains defined by a significant gap between the Liberals and their rivals, according to the latest weekly tracking. Liberal support stands at just under 50 per cent nationally, while the Conservatives remain in second place and the NDP trailing. The findings suggest that voter preferences have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, with little evidence of...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ukraine will present the Trump administration and Congress this week with a wish list of Russian companies, vessels and individuals it would like to see hit with U.S. sanctions under a new law signed by President Donald Trump this month, according to a senior Ukrainian diplomat.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve's internal watchdog said Wednesday that the agency has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors.
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country would do to impact the vote. Peter Navarro, who has lashed out at Canada in the past, made these latest remarks during a talk at an economic conference in...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew staged a dramatic intervention to subdue the attacker and the plane eventually made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The FlyDubai flight travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed safely after...
Prime Minister Mark Carney appealed to common values like democracy and reliability when he called for deeper trade and defence ties at the European Parliament earlier this month. But some experts say with the rise of far-right parties on the continent, key European allies may not always share those values — and Canada should keep that possibility in mind as...
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country would do to impact the vote. Peter Navarro, who has lashed out at Canada in the past, made these latest remarks during a talk at an economic conference in...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is co-hosting a global conference in Toronto on the plight of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials. In 2024, the Trudeau government co-launched with Ukraine an international coalition of nations committed to finding and returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since it began its full-scale invasion in 2022. Ukrainian authorities cite what they say
Canada’s aim to diversify and grow its exports will inevitably mean a significant focus on building deeper and more beneficial linkages with the Asia-Pacific. In this report, we show that Canada’s diversification challenge cannot be fully solved by merely substituting one large market with many small ones, nor by assuming that supply chains can quickly or easily be re-wired. To...
Canada has spent thirty years pretending that internal free trade can be achieved through polite first ministers’ meetings, press conferences, action plans, and the creation of agencies.
The visibility of Indigenous women in business can seem like a relatively new story, but it is not. Indigenous women have been leading in business and trade for centuries across North America. However, Indigenous women became disconnected from these responsibilities when the Crown imposed a sex-based hierarchy with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869. Under that act a First Nations...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has finally charted a course out of the morass that is 24 Sussex Drive, the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers since 1951. Carney’s June announcement of a private-sector competition to “modernize” the decrepit building, abandoned in 2015 and later put into mothballs, was welcomed by heritage advocates as an end to a political impasse. A...
Artificial intelligence has moved from a promising general-purpose technology to an increasingly consequential layer of economic, social and public infrastructure. It is already raising productivity, expanding access to expertise, accelerating scientific discovery and creating new ways to deliver services. At the same time, AI systems are implicated in fraud, manipulation and cyberattacks and unreliable results and misinformation. The most capable...
The RCMP commissioner has warned the Carney government that proposed reductions in security measures for the modernization of the official residence at 24 Sussex Drive will “result in an increased overall security risk,” says an internal document. The RCMP has been meeting with senior government officials since 2025 to discuss trimming the estimated bill for hardening the property against attacks...
When David Eby called an election in BC, he seemed to be missing one thing -- a reason. James Moore and Gerald Butts are together again for another conversation and this is a natural, Conservative James knows BC and Liberal Gerald knows elections. They discuss that plus their thoughts and the relationship between then Canadian media and the politicians they...
The Globe and Mail has learned that a Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana and Canadians were using satellite equipment brought into Cuba by the United States when officials from both countries began experiencing debilitating symptoms caused by alleged sonic attacks linked to Russia, according to two sources. Now, former Canadian spies and high-level security officials...
Another week that had observers scratching their heads over Donald Trump. The US President gives the Chinese President a red-carpet welcome, then offers Vladimir Putin a seat at an upcoming G20 meeting. Drt Janice Stein tries to make sense of those moves, plus what to believe concerning stories about what Benjamin Netanyahu knew about October 7th before it happened.
Opposition to Bill C‑39 has been portrayed as a battle between new investment and environmental protection and between collective bargaining rights and warding off strikes in essential economic services. But its most consequential changes may be the ones attracting the least attention.
