Just two days after BC NDP leader David Eby dissolved the British Columbia legislature and called a snap election, party supporters, candidates, volunteers and donors may be questioning the wisdom of his political gamble, as the opposition BC Conservatives jump out to a commanding – but early – eight-point lead in vote intention over the incumbent. New data from the...
In a wide-ranging interview, the Canadian leader laid out a detailed vision for breaking his country’s dependency on the United States. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had prepared over the past year for the “extreme tail risk” that President Trump might order military action against Canada, but disclosed that the two men have spoken “frequently,” even...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action in Canada. In a lengthy New York Times interview published today, Carney declined to discuss in detail what that examination involved, but he suggested it would be irresponsible not to prepare for what he called "extreme tail risk." Carney also spoke in the interview about Canada's plans...
- Vietnamese President To Lam and Prime Minister Mark Carney have upgraded the ties between their two nations to a strategic partnership. In an address on Parliament Hill today, Lam said it's time to go beyond a 2017 pact that covered investment, defence and academia, and to forge deeper ties with longer-term goals. Lam told MPs, senators and diplomats that...
Republicans will likely lose control of the House of Representatives in the coming weeks. The big question on a lot of minds is whether the Senate will shift to Democratic control as well. Here’s how this match up looks right now. Republicans hold 53 seats, the Democrats have 45 and there are 2 Independents, who mostly lean Democrat. When there...
Just two days after BC NDP leader David Eby dissolved the British Columbia legislature and called a snap election, party supporters, candidates, volunteers and donors may be questioning the wisdom of his political gamble, as the opposition BC Conservatives jump out to a commanding – but early – eight-point lead in vote intention over the incumbent. New data from the...
A new Liaison Strategies Ontario Political Tracker finds the Progressive Conservatives leading the Ontario Liberals 40% to 34% among decided and leaning voters, while a test of potential Liberal leaders shows how much public preferences can change after a brief introduction. The Ontario NDP stands at 21%, other parties at 3%, and the Greens at 2%. Navdeep Bains is the...
Canada’s first F-35 has taken to the skies. It’s the first new model of fighter jet with Canadian markings in 44 years. But a milestone that would normally be heavily promoted, passed with barely a word from Canada’s military. The historic first flight took place Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, home to Lockheed Martin’s final assembly plant.
A former British Columbia Conservative executive who helped John Rustad orchestrate the rise of the party from obscurity is honouring its former leader as a trailblazer who transformed the province's political scene. Former Conservative executive director Angelo Isidorou says Rustad, who has announced his retirement from politics, was "sent to the wilderness" when he was expelled from the B.C. Liberals...
“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...
It’s hard to imagine a country as large and as resource-rich and as intelligently populated as Canada having made such a small footprint on the world stage for so long. But until now, until these transformational times for our country, that’s been generally the case all the way since 1867. Dwarfed by the powers of Great Britain, which controlled Canada’s...
I would like to play poker for money against the people who still believe what Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre say, because I doubt they can tell a spade from a diamond, a deuce from a Queen. As support for both Trump and Poilievre has diminished — they both have approval ratings of 32 per cent — I am starting...
The Conservative Party of Canada lost the last federal election because they couldn’t put enough distance between themselves and US President Donald Trump, and they seem very determined to lose the next one for the very same reason. Time and time again, they’ve been given opportunities to show their solidarity with Canada and their disdain for Trump and his movement...
Every September, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week converges on New York City. The week was once largely confined to the General Assembly. While the general debate remains its centrepiece, high-level week now also involves tens of thousands of delegates, observers, lobbyists, advocates, critics, enthusiasts, and hangers-on meeting in countless venues. There is “pre-HLW”, “post-HLW”, main meetings, side...
Are there lessons for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in this past weekend’s implosion of the short-lived leadership of the British Columbia Conservative Party’s Kerry-Lynne Findlay? Findlay, a former caucus colleague of the federal leader, lasted four months in her role before her Sept. 20 self-sendoff. From the outside, her approach seemed to be one fuelled by constant conflict, rage farming...
Mark Carney was in the room when two starkly different visions of the world order were laid before the United Nations General Assembly. One came from the secretary-general of the UN, António Guterres. The other came from Donald Trump.
B.C. Premier David Eby’s snap election call Tuesday may go down as a cynical but savvy decision that kept his government in power for another four years. Or it will be judged as a too-cute-by-half move that disastrously misjudged the mood of the electorate, leading to one of the most epic political blunders in the province’s history. Almost at the...
The statement that NDP Leader Avi Lewis posted on X on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur deserves to be reproduced in its entirety, in order to fully appreciate its malignancy and reckless stupidity. “Tonight Yom Kippur begins, the most sombre moment of the Jewish calendar,” Mr. Lewis wrote. “It’s a time of atonement – a time to grieve those...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent the last year and a half asking Canadians to embrace his “Canada Strong” agenda. We’ve all heard the slogans: Build more. Invest more. Approve projects faster. But while much of his plans depend on state action, they also require attracting private capital — and in some cases, trading on the value of public assets...
As a veteran columnist and editor, I can attest to the predominance of a handful of opening gambits that have stood the tests of both time and competition from political-aphorism upstarts. Harold Macmillan’s irresistible “Events, dear boy, events” and Yogi Berra’s (and Lenny Kravitz’s) “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” come to mind. In the Canadian canon, there’s Robert Bourassa’s...
We’re in a war of sorts with Donald Trump’s United States, or so the prime minister tells us. So to understand where we are right now I turned to my well-thumbed copy of Carl von Clausewitz’s “Vom Kriege” (On War), the Urtext for people who think about such things. Clausewitz, a Prussian general, was writing with the Napoleonic campaigns very...
On the world stage, he dazzles. Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks eloquently about shared values of democracy, addressing climate change, fighting for human rights, and walks his talk of like-minded countries banding together to preserve the rules-based international order. Whether its penning an op-ed in the Financial Times to announce Partners for Multilateralism with the presidents of Brazil, Kenya and...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is on Canada’s side in the upcoming Alberta separation referendum. But is she really? Or is she still toying with Albertans and Canadians. Pretending to be a federalist while quietly cheering on the separatists? It certainly sounded that way when she spoke last weekend at a virtual assembly on the future of Alberta.
On the eve of Parliament's return to business, Mark Carney sought to manage expectations. "We are meeting at a decisive moment for our country," the prime minister told a room full of Liberal MPs on Friday. Near the end of his remarks, Carney told his caucus that this would be "a crucial session of the House of Commons."
This is probably as good as it gets for Mark Carney, if the curse of Rolling Stone holds true. The prime minister was lauded for his “genius-level instincts” in a recent profile in the magazine, under the headline: “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.”
MARK CARNEY HAS achieved something close to rock-star status for being one of the only world leaders to stand up to United States president Donald Trump. Breaking off trade talks with the US carries enormous risks, but according to Angus Reid, 76 percent of Canadians back the prime minister’s decision. “They asked too much,” he explained, with characteristic crispness, “and...
There is a lot that United States President Donald Trump doesn’t understand. Canada is close to the top of the list. Trump is accustomed to wielding the presidency as the ultimate big stick. He gets his way by threatening, not persuading or charming, as past U.S. leaders have done. Can anyone picture Jimmy Carter threatening to annex the Great White...
Danielle Smith clearly loves America. In addition to her numerous diplomatic visits and personal holidays there, she has also used the country as a model for her own political brand, one that focuses far more on things like individual freedom and liberty than more traditionally Canadian values like community and shared interests. She has deliberately imported their most noxious culture...
Canada and Ukraine now have a drone deal. As announced recently by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Alberta, Canada and Ukraine will jointly produce unmanned weapons systems. Although many details of the plan have not yet been released, the basic idea seems to be that Canada will produce millions of drones a year domestically, using...
There's a level of irony in the deep admiration so many Alberta separatists harbour for our neighbour to the south. After all, there is no legal process for an American state to separate from the U.S. and, thus, such a movement could not exist there. Of course, the United States underwent a far messier and bloodier process before concluding that...
Over the summer of 2026, the annual escape from the daily battleground of question period overwhelmingly benefited Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney used his summer vacation from the House of Commons to burnish his economic credibility with Canadians through infrastructure announcements, boost his global currency by standing up to Donald Trump on trade, and renew his parliamentary majority via three...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is back from Europe and now Europe is coming closer to him. Over 48 hours on Sunday and Monday, he’ll meet with two European allies, two leaders who, like Mr. Carney, see strategic autonomy as the key goal of their foreign policy. If he wanted allies to help knit together a trans-Atlantic geopolitical alliance, he could...
New Democrat Leader David Eby says some members of the Conservative Opposition have a vision to make British Columbia a protectorate of the United States, and its leader isn't doing enough to rein them in. Eby says interim B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson can't stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump because he can't stand up to members of his...
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U.S. President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping this week, heralding the Chinese president as a "great leader" while looking to expand or extend a deal both countries reached last year to stave off some tariffs and carve out something of a trade truce. Trump has previously said he’s made "fantastic trade deals" with Beijing and...
A former British Columbia Conservative candidate has urged members of the party to "plug" their noses and accept Lorne Doerkson as their permanent leader if he's successful in the province's snap election on Oct. 24 and build from there. The appeal from Tim Thielmann, a lawyer and former research director for the Conservatives, comes as the party says its board...
Vietnam's most powerful politician is in Ottawa for a state visit Thursday aimed at deepening trade and diplomatic ties as middle powers confront American and Chinese coercion. Vietnamese President To Lam serves as Communist party general secretary, making him more powerful than his country's prime minister. Lam has events scheduled for Thursday with Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour, Prime Minister Mark...
Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs will join premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney for a rare meeting in late October -- the first such meeting between chiefs and first ministers in decades. A source shared details of a Wednesday planning meeting held by the Assembly of First Nations on the condition they not be named because they were not...
Reporters from three news outlets banned from White House by President Donald Trump were back on the grounds Thursday afternoon, hours after a federal judge ordered the administration to reinstate their access. CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were allowed back in the latest development in an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes. It comes...
The British Columbia Conservatives moved Wednesday to head off suggestions that interim leader Lorne Doerkson would not remain premier if he wins the Oct. 24 election. The party's constitution says an interim leader cannot run for the position permanently, but the party said in a statement that its board "will pursue the appropriate means" to keep him in power after...
The British Columbia Conservative Party says its former leader, Nechako Lakes legislator John Rustad, will not be standing in the Oct. 24 election.
High-profile British Columbia cabinet minister Brenda Bailey won't be running for re-election in the Oct. 24 vote, becoming the fourth minister in David Eby's government to drop out. Bailey left the finance portfolio to take on the Jobs Ministry in August as she underwent cancer treatment. In a statement posted on social media, Bailey says she's had surgery and is...
The Immigration Department will monitor for any negative effects from a recent decision not to extend a policy that gave permanent residency sponsorship exemptions to some refugees, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Wednesday. The policy was introduced in 2019 to allow some refugees to sponsor some undeclared family members for permanent residency but it expired earlier this month and was...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she is checking to see if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who faces an international arrest warrant — will be travelling through Canadian airspace on Thursday. "I actually have asked my department to provide me with information relating to this particular flyover, which I did not have before coming to the United Nations,"...
Both sides of British Columbia politics are racing to redefine the B.C. Conservatives, as the province goes to the polls on Oct. 24 in the wake of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's divisive leadership of the official Opposition party. NDP Leader David Eby says the Conservatives are soft on U.S. President Donald Trump, partly justifying the election call on Tuesday as necessary to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged $82 million over five years to bolster ocean monitoring as he continued his support for international collaboration at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. "Canada is an ocean nation," Carney said. Carney's emerging role as a key global champion of alliances and multilateralism has made him a frequent target of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Canada was among 20 countries who issued a joint statement during the UN General Assembly on Tuesday calling for stronger oversight of AI, even as the United States was rejecting any push to regulate the technology. Prime Minister Mark Carney signed the statement, which says "the rapid development of frontier AI models poses serious risks to safety and security if...
Federal government departments and agencies are set to spend more than $18 million to get their employees to work in the office more often. Thousands of federal public servants started a new work schedule in July requiring them to be on-site in the office four days a week. In response to an order paper question from NDP MP Heather McPherson...
U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada again Wednesday, this time to claim that Canada is "destroying itself" by allowing millions of people into the country "essentially unchecked and unvetted." In a social media post Trump said this is causing unspecified problems that "will soon be too big to handle" and described it as a "Liberal takeover that will...
U.S. President Donald Trump says his country will continue buying Canadian potash after all. Trump made the comments to reporters during a bilateral meeting at the United Nations General Assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It comes a day after Trump had said he was working on a deal to buy cheaper potash from Belarus in a bid to lessen...
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. is an "extremely unpredictable" partner because President Donald Trump's administration is "no longer working" in the best interest of Americans. The former prime minister shared his thoughts on the current Trump administration as part of a question and answer session with Brown University President Christina Paxson in Rhode Island on Tuesday.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors. Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that one of the most consequential parts of the sweeping economic legislation tabled Monday looks to give the public a better sense of what's happening when negotiations turn sour...
A Bramptonist community poll of 5,700 responses puts the incumbent at 76 per cent. The modern city record still belongs to Susan Fennell’s 2006 victory.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to close out his time at the United Nations General Assembly by reuniting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for an event to build collaboration around ocean observation. The OceanEye International Alliance event will bring together other leaders, civil society partners and UN organizations to build a network to observe and share...
The interim leader of British Columbia's Conservatives says they are united and ready to fight an Oct. 24 election, putting the chaotic final weeks of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's leadership behind them. Interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson, who replaced Findlay on Sunday, says NDP Leader David Eby is going to regret Tuesday's election call. Eby says the snap election that he called...
On the eve of last week’s Canada Investment Summit where the prime minister courted investors for over $1-trillion in Canadian project development, the Liberal Party and several Toronto-area MPs hosted an “Evening with Mark Carney” alongside hundreds of top-dollar donors, raising more than $800,000 in a single night and setting another high-water mark for its enhanced fundraising efforts since the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Canada in December, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed on Tuesday. Carney said the two countries are looking to reach a trade deal by the end of the year — a further sign that the once deep diplomatic chasm between the two governments is being bridged. "We're making good progress in our...
British Columbia Health Minister Ravi Kahlon says he will not seek re-election in the snap Oct. 24 provincial vote that has been called by David Eby. He becomes the third minister in Eby's cabinet to say they will not be running. Kahlon says the time is right for him to step aside in Delta North after three election cycles. Minister...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians and offering to expand an RCMP training mission of local police in the West Bank to include Gaza, when conditions allow. Speaking on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Carney said Canada remains focused on helping create a Palestinian country that...
Interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson says he'll be more than an interim premier if his party wins the snap Oct. 24 provincial vote that has been called by NDP leader David Eby. The official Opposition's constitution prohibits an interim leader from seeking the position permanently but Doerkson says he's running in the election to lead the province. Doerkson has...
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says he has talked to his international counterparts about setting up an organization to tackle AI safety. Solomon says he spoke with counterparts at the G7 today about establishing an international "technology stability board." He says the board would evaluate AI models for testing before they are released
Republicans will likely lose control of the House of Representatives in the coming weeks. The big question on a lot of minds is whether the Senate will shift to Democratic control as well. Here’s how this match up looks right now. Republicans hold 53 seats, the Democrats have 45 and there are 2 Independents, who mostly lean Democrat. When there...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump showed off some of his favorite things at the White House for the visiting leader of communist China on Thursday -- bringing him inside his Marine One helicopter and exhibiting a new granite landing pad he built for it, along with the hulking, nearby construction site that will one day be a ballroom.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three news organizations banned from the White House for days were back Thursday, after a judge handed CNN, MS NOW and Politico a reprieve in an extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and outlets whose coverage he dislikes.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite rising political anxiety over the Iran war, senators on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump 's military action, which has been largely blamed for the spike in gas prices and become a flashpoint in the midterm election.
Republicans will likely lose control of the House of Representatives in the coming weeks. The big question on a lot of minds is whether the Senate will shift to Democratic control as well. Here’s how this match up looks right now. Republicans hold 53 seats, the Democrats have 45 and there are 2 Independents, who mostly lean Democrat. When there...
- Vietnamese President To Lam and Prime Minister Mark Carney have upgraded the ties between their two nations to a strategic partnership. In an address on Parliament Hill today, Lam said it's time to go beyond a 2017 pact that covered investment, defence and academia, and to forge deeper ties with longer-term goals. Lam told MPs, senators and diplomats that...
Vietnam's most powerful politician is in Ottawa for a state visit Thursday aimed at deepening trade and diplomatic ties as middle powers confront American and Chinese coercion. Vietnamese President To Lam serves as Communist party general secretary, making him more powerful than his country's prime minister. Lam has events scheduled for Thursday with Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour, Prime Minister Mark...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to close out his time at the United Nations General Assembly by reuniting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for an event to build collaboration around ocean observation. The OceanEye International Alliance event will bring together other leaders, civil society partners and UN organizations to build a network to observe and share...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians and offering to expand an RCMP training mission of local police in the West Bank to include Gaza, when conditions allow. Speaking on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Carney said Canada remains focused on helping create a Palestinian country that...
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...
As prospective Canadian homebuyers and renters struggle to gain a foothold in one of the least-affordable housing markets in the developed world, housing affordability has become one of the top concerns across the country. Canada’s housing crisis is largely a function of burdensome municipal rules that constrain supply and inflate prices. Meanwhile, misaligned incentives constrain local officials’ willingness to make...
When Xi Jinping’s plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews this week, Donald Trump intends to be there to meet it. Protocol dictates that American presidents do not usually greet foreign leaders at the airport; they receive them at the White House. The last exception occurred when President Barack Obama met Pope Francis at Andrews in 2015. The unusual gesture...
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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...
At Carney’s invitation, the world’s biggest institutional investors are arriving in Toronto to look over opportunities to invest in Canada — opportunities that may not yet be ripe for their taste. About 300 chief executives and senior managers gather Monday evening and Tuesday at the Four Seasons in Toronto. Between them they manage $120 trillion in assets, fifty times the...
Courage, his mother told him. And his mother was right. We will need to repeat that to ourselves — a hazy memory of a Bertolt Brecht play — to face President Trump’s aggression. There will be lulls, perhaps a truce. Do not dream of a lasting peace. The American king’s escalating demands would have made Canada his vassal. Mark Carney...
B.C. Premier David Eby has staked his government on an early election, pitching to voters that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s economy and sovereignty forces him to request a new mandate from voters. But could the snap election call backfire if those voters instead decide that it was a cynical attempt to take advantage of the disarray within...
British Columbians will be heading to the polls two years ahead of schedule this fall. The snap call by Premier David Eby comes amid turmoil within the B.C. Conservative Party, his chief opponents, and at a sensitive time for the province, as the government has attempted to deal with controversy around Indigenous rights legislation. Host Caryn Ceolin speaks with Shannon...
Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric connect the players and politics moving between Ottawa and British Columbia’s snap election. Ambassador-designate Jonathan Wilkinson shares what’s next in Canada’s courtship with the European Union. Plus, a 200-second interview with Conservative MP Dan Albas.
In this episode of On The Line, Jen Gerson checks in with Greenland and Europe. Canadians seem increasingly open to closer ties with non-U.S. Western allies — but what do those allies think about us?
