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Abbas Rana

Conservatives had a ‘somewhat frank’ talk about their fourth election loss to Liberals since 2015, some want a full post-mortem: ‘there should be accountability’

The Conservative Party began its post-election review last week and talked about what happened in the April 28 election, with the process expected to continue in the coming weeks, says Rob Batherson, former Conservative Party president. The federal Conservative caucus held a full-day meeting on Parliament Hill last week—their first since the election—to discuss what went right and what went...

Touria Izri

Liberal MP celebrates ‘rollercoaster’ win, flipping Quebec seat by one vote

A 24-year-old Quebecer is celebrating one of the closest victories in the history of federal politics after flipping a Bloc Québécois seat to Liberal by an incredibly narrow margin. “It’s been a rollercoaster. From winning to not winning, and then winning again,” said Tatiana Auguste, the new member of Parliament for Terrebonne, Que., northeast of Montreal.

Randy Thanthong-Knight

Consumer Confidence Rises in Canada After Carney's Election Win

Canadians are growing more optimistic about the economy, as the conclusion of a national election relieves some anxiety around the country’s direction and US President Donald Trump’s threats.

U.S. and China agree to slash reciprocal tariffs in major step toward easing trade war

The United States and China said Monday they had agreed to a 90-day pause on most of the tariffs they have imposed on each other since last month, in a major step toward easing a trade war between the two powers that has rattled the global economy.

Benjamin Lopez Steven

'No reason to think' Americans want to trigger early CUSMA review, says Dominic LeBlanc

Canada hopes to make progress on lifting tariffs before G7 summit in Alberta: LeBlanc. International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has "no reason to think" the United States wants to trigger an early review of the North American free trade deal, but American officials do want to discuss tackling economic and security issues together.

Polls

Nik Nanos

Consumer confidence rises with election of Carney government

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,259 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four waves of tracking ending May 9th, 2025. The margin of error for a random survey of 1,259 Canadians is ±2.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The research was commissioned by the Bloomberg and was conducted by Nanos Research.

Nik Nanos

Most Canadians anticipate at least some positive impact from Mark Carney on Canadian Unity

The objective of the research was to gauge views of Canadians on newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney’s impact on unity among Canadians. Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,055 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between May 5th and 8th, 2025 as part of an omnibus survey. The margin...

Opinion

Scott Reid

Three key things for Carney to consider as he builds his government

“No crisis, no Mark Carney.” Five simple, unadorned words offered to Radio-Canada during his leadership campaign. Five words that say a lot about how Mark Carney regards himself, our politics, and this moment in time. Five words that also serve as a pretty fair indication of how Canada’s new prime minister views the task of transition—of selecting an office, a...

Michael Harris

Carney pulls off mission impossible

In Carney’s world, two plus two always equals four. In banking and finance, facts matter. In the navel-gazing nightmare of intuitive Trumpism, two plus two equals whatever the president says it does.

News

AFN chief says talks of Alberta separation 'irresponsible,' points to treaties

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says talk of Alberta separatism is 'irresponsible' and it's "not smart" for politicians to make statements about it without consulting with First Nations first. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has introduced a bill that would make it easier for Albertans to launch referendums on various topics -- including splitting from Canada. Smith...

Bell launches campaign calling on Ottawa, CRTC to reverse wholesale fibre policy

Bell Canada is renewing its push for the federal telecommunications regulator to block competitors from reselling fibre internet service on its network. The company has launched a new campaign called Build, Connect and Grow Canada, targeting a February decision by the CRTC allowing telecom giants to sell internet service in regions where they don’t own fibre networks by paying the...

Politician's Pen

Senator Percy Downe

Reducing Trade Barriers in Atlantic Canada

Dominic Cardy

Making Canada the World’s Northern Democratic Superpower

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Greg MacNeil

This Isn't Top Gun: Air Combat Is About Stealth, Not Swagger

That exchange in Top Gun: Maverick wasn’t just a nod to Tom Cruise’s enduring appeal as fighter pilot. It was an admission from the screenwriters that modern air combat has moved on. Modern fifth-generation fighters like the F-35 are not built for close-range dogfights. They are designed to detect threats from long distances, strike first, and vanish before the enemy...

Kelly McParland

Carney's change agenda should start with fixing up 24 Sussex Drive

Every prime minister since Pierre Trudeau has failed to rehabilitate the official residence. Carney has a chance to show us he's different.

Bruce Anderson

Conservatives bet on a ballot question that was bound to backfire.

This was supposed to be a time when incumbents had no chance of re-election. Post-Covid economies made voters mad about the cost of living, worried about the cost of government, and fed up with of being told how to think and act. They wanted more freedom, lower costs and less taxation. People wanted a political leader who was focused on...

Susan Delacourt, Matt Gurney

Channelling Conservative anger actually worked for Pierre Poilievre. Does he really need to change gears now?

Susan Delacourt: One word leapt out at me in a piece you wrote for this paper last week, Matt, and it was this one: “killed.” As in, the Conservatives got killed in the election. I agree that their hopes got killed — especially the hopes they had when they were 20 points ahead of the Liberals. But here’s the thing...

Colby Cosh

Alberta's feeble separatist movement

I’m not sure, as an Albertan, that the biggest Alberta political news of the week isn’t the official secession of the Alberta New Democratic Party from the national NDP. Last weekend members of the NDP-A voted at a general assembly to allow for separate provincial memberships in the party: no longer will the NDP be one and indivisible. It seems...

Geoff Norquay

Election 2025: A Conservative Postmortem

The unprecedented events leading to Canada’s 45th federal election defined two different ballot questions for the principal parties. In the first three months of 2025, the political landscape of the country transformed in ways no one could have predicted. The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and the subsequent election of Mark Carney as Liberal leader were the first...

Andrew Coyne

The slow crumbling of Canadian democracy

Our parliamentary system is in a state of disrepair so advanced that it has lost much of its relevance

Lorrie Goldstein

Carney, like Trudeau, thinks big deficits are the answer to tough times

The Prime Minister seems to be following the path of his predecessor, which he warned against leading up to the April 28 election

David McLaughlin

Mark Carney — a progressive conservative

Political Pulse Panel

Who will be in Carney's cabinet?

Prime Minister Mark Carney will name his cabinet on Tuesday. Our panel of party insiders discusses what to expect, as U.S. tariffs remain front of mind for Canadians.

Chief Raymond Powder

What Indigenous reconciliation can teach Albertan separatists

Fort McKay First Nation in northern Alberta exemplifies what can be achieved when people reject division and work together

Éric Blais

Mark Carney wants Canadians to be masters in their own house — but here is how that could spell trouble for him

During his leadership campaign and now, as prime minister, Mark Carney reached for a loaded phrase: “Masters in our own home.” “The old relationship we had with the United States is over. What exactly the United States does next is unclear. But what is clear is that we as Canadians have agency, we have power. We are masters in our...

Jason Markusoff

Will Danielle Smith steer Alberta away from separation, or will this train keep gathering steam?

When Premier Danielle Smith speaks, she's still placing the Canadian flags behind her in among the Alberta provincial flags. As much as critics insist she's either a separatist herself or is opening the door wide to the Alberta secessionist movement by easing the rules to have a referendum next year, the premier herself maintains that she wants Alberta to stay...

Eric Ham

Mark Carney held a masterclass in how to deal with Donald Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney made his eagerly anticipated visit to the White House for his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this week. The meeting was anticlimactic and saw no confrontations, trolling or perceived slights from the mercurial American leader. Each man greeted the other with warm handshakes, beaming smiles, and spirited fist jabs. The jovial and festive vibes...

David Rodier

From the road to the back room: A view inside the Carney campaign

I was hoping to manage the Liberal media bus again for the 2025 Carney election campaign. It’s really a sweet gig if you don’t mind the odd moments of terror. You get to see Canada in all its beautiful glory, meet old friends, make new friends – and get a front-row seat to history. There are also a lot of...

Phil Tank

Conservatives' silence on Saskatoon mom's ejection troubling

A Saskatoon woman wearing a transgender rights T-shirt was removed from a Conservative rally featuring Pierre Poilievre during the election campaign.

Greg MacNeil

The End of the Peace Dividend. The Start of the Defence Dividend

Across the Western world, a generational shift in defence and security policy is underway. The so-called “peace dividend” that followed the Cold War, when countries reduced military spending to invest in domestic priorities, is now history. In the words of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, we now need to prepare for the defence dividend. This week, Starmer committed the United...

Matt Gurney

Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives need to figure out what sunk them. It won’t be as easy as you might think

When my editor asked me recently whether I had any thoughts on a Conservative election post-mortem, my reply was simple: we have to use the term post-mortem in a more literal sense than normal. The Conservatives don’t need to merely review the campaign. They need to figure out precisely what killed them. Because unless they find an answer, they won’t...

Ryan Manucha

Nova Scotia leading the way on reducing interprovincial trade barriers

Campbell Clark

After Mr. Carney meets Trump, time and polls matter

Now we wait. There is a sweat-it-out period on Canada-U.S. trade now. There aren’t real negotiations going on, not in the nitty-gritty sense, not yet. There’s a kind of pause to regroup. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump sat next to Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office and said there’s nothing the United States wants from Canada. He told...

John Ivison

Conservatives want their leader to change. He might not wish to

A failure to accommodate shifting circumstances is prompting questions inside the party about whether a 45-year-old man can truly change

Lloyd Axworthy

I am a former minister of foreign affairs. This is what’s at stake in the tension between India and Pakistan

The conflict between India and Pakistan is not a sudden wildfire — it is a bed of long-burning embers, lying beneath decades of unresolved history, territorial disputes, mutual distrust, and a clash of national religious identities. From time to time, a gust of wind — a political provocation, a militant attack, or a deadly border clash — fans them back...

Don Newman

The Battles Ahead for Pierre Poilievre

Pierre Poilievre has moved quickly to consolidate his leadership of the Conservative Party in the wake of its disappointing loss in the April 28th general election and his own stunning personal loss of the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton, which he had held for 20 years. But Poilievre’s placement of faithful lieutenant and former leader Andrew Scheer to lead the...

Lawrence Martin

Trump’s betrayal of Canada is starting to unravel

Dale Smith

Get ready for conservative civil war

As the reality of the federal Conservative Party’s defeat in last week’s federal election manifested, infighting within the movement erupted, particularly between the leaders of provincial Progressive Conservative parties and the federal party. This was, in turn, met by accusations by some federal Conservatives that Ontario premier Doug Ford was some kind of Liberal booster, and that he was somehow...

Jeanette Ashe

Gender Equity Is Slipping — Here’s How Prime Minister Carney Can Lead

William Watson

Carney survives Trump’s BS and bile

What's the diplomatic thing to say when the U.S. president insults your predecessor, your close colleague and many others, to boot? In his Devil’s Dictionary, 19th-century American writer Ambrose Bierce defined diplomacy as the “patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”

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Touria Izri, Marc-André Cossette

Foreign student asylum claims hit record high in 2024, set to grow in 2025

International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News. The claims are rising, even as Ottawa cuts the number of study permits it issues, with Prime Minister Mark Carney pledging like his predecessor Justin Trudeau to return Canadian immigration to “sustainable levels.”

Fakiha Baig

'We're Canadians': Some Albertans divided about separation in cross-province checkup

Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to the province's premier, her husband and their dog. Kathleen Sokvitne has lived on the street in High River, Alta., about 60 kilometres south of Calgary, for 30 years. She says those flags show that not all Albertans...

Stephanie Ha

‘Ready to move on:’ Chinese ambassador insists China, Canada can move past ‘normal’ differences

Following years of diplomatic and trade tensions, China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, insists the two countries can move past what he characterizes as “normal” differences. “For China and Canada to bring our relationship back onto the right track, we need to seek common ground while reserving differences in a constructive way,” Wang said through a translator in an exclusive...

Natalie Pressman

Residents in Mark Carney's N.W.T. hometown send care package of local goods to the new PM

A care package with goods from the prime minister's hometown in the N.W.T. is on its way to Ottawa — and the woman who put it together just hopes it'll make him smile. "It was not a political gesture," said Patti-Kay Hamilton, of Fort Smith, N.W.T., but rather a way "to say thanks for making me happy."

Quebec riding of Terrebonne flips to Liberals after recount shows candidate won by single vote

Liberals now have 170 seats in House of Commons, two shy of a majority government. After a judicial recount, sources tell CBC News the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped to the Liberals, who have beaten the Bloc Québécois by one vote. The result means the Liberals have 170 seats in the House of Commons — just two shy of...

Ian Bickis, Ian Bickis

Canadians could stay visa-free longer in U.S. under proposed bill

Canadian snowbirds could stay longer in the United States without a visa if a bill recently proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.

Irem Koca

Less talking, more listening: rookies say grassroots campaigns helped unseat high-profile incumbents

A wave of rookie MPs will take their seats in the House when the 45th Parliament begins this month, and some of those newcomers who unseated long-serving or high-profile incumbents say the key to their success was listening to concerns, and responding to calls for change.

Raisa Patel

Conservative insiders say they need to sell Pierre Poilievre’s ‘softer side’ to voters next time

Nearly two weeks after a bitter election defeat, the Conservative party has turned its sights to its next chapter: rolling out tone shifts, a renewed media strategy, and the reintroduction of its leader to start courting voters who turned elsewhere at the ballot box. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives — for supporters have, at least publicly, united around him — are keen...

Alex Ballingall, Tonda MacCharles

‘There’s a “Hunger Games” aspect to it’: Liberal insiders brace for Mark Carney’s cabinet appointments

With a successful election and a high-stakes trip to Washington behind him, Prime Minister Mark Carney is grappling with a tangle of considerations and big decisions as he launches his first governing mandate for Canada’s incoming minority Parliament.

Michelle Maluske

‘Ballots should not have been rejected’: Windsor judge orders recount of election results

Elections Canada will recount the ballots in the riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore (WTL), following a one-hour hearing in Superior court Friday. Former Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk lost the riding to the Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli by 77 votes. The initial count had the difference at 233. Kusmierczyk’s lawyer, Jeff Hewitt argued some “...ballots should not have been rejected.”

Jillian Piper, Mackenzie Gray

Liberals putting out ‘feelers’ for NDP MPs to cross floor: Davies

Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says the Liberals are making phone calls to NDP members of parliament to see if they will join the Liberal Party in an effort to reach a majority government. Davies told Global News he’s not worried about his six other NDP MP colleagues switching political teams. “I do know that there’s been certain calls made...

Steven Chase, Robert Fife

Former Liberal MP ousted over alleged ties to India starts Hindu-Canadian lobby group

A former MP who was barred from running in the federal election for the Liberal Party because of alleged ties to India has formed a lobby group for Hindu Canadians. Chandra Arya, who served as a member of Parliament for the Ottawa riding of Nepean for more than nine years, was removed as the Liberal candidate for the district shortly...

Spencer Van Dyk

Carney will be ‘significant departure’ from Trudeau on policies, relations with Alberta and Saskatchewan: LeBlanc

Longtime cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc insists Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will set itself apart from that of former prime minister Justin Trudeau when it comes to relations with Alberta and Saskatchewan, despite plans to keep some divisive environmental policies. LeBlanc — who as intergovernmental affairs minister overseas the relationship between the federal government and provinces — told CTV’s Question...

Benjamin Lopez Steven, Catherine Cullen

These incumbent MPs lost their races. Now, they're packing up and saying goodbye

4 MPs say this was more than a job, and the transition won't be easy. The last item former NDP MP Peter Julian will pack when he leaves his parliamentary office in downtown Ottawa is a single steel-toed work boot. For more than 20 years, the boot has been sitting in Julian's office — a strong reminder of his focus...

Ian Baily

Poilievre rejects severance offered to defeated MPs after losing Ontario riding

Federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is rejecting a severance package estimated at about $150,000 that he was entitled to receive after losing his Ottawa-area riding, a party official says. Under the rules of the House of Commons, Mr. Poilievre is eligible for severance worth $154,850, according to the calculations of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).

Ashley Burke

Prime Minister Carney to name new cabinet Tuesday that could include tiered structure

Sources say PM is considering a smaller group of core ministers. Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet is expected to be larger than his first, but could include a tiered structure with a secondary ring of ministers. Rideau Hall announced Friday that Carney and his cabinet will be sworn in Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in Ottawa by Gov. Gen. Mary...

Marlo Glass

Will Carney’s cabinet shuffle favour high-profile rookies or veteran MPs?

From an ex-political journalist, Vancouver’s former mayor, a survivor of a mass murder, a former banking CEO and other star candidates who performed impressively on election night, Prime Minister Mark Carney has no shortage of high-profile rookie MPs to pick from for cabinet positions. The question remains: around how many veteran ministers from the Trudeau era will stay, or if...

Rachel Aiello

PM Mark Carney to unveil his new cabinet at Rideau Hall on Tuesday

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be sworn in and unveil his new cabinet on Tuesday, Rideau Hall has confirmed. In a ceremony presided over by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, the newly elected prime minister will present to Canadians who he has picked to deliver on his series of campaign commitments, and lead on key files at a pivotal time for...

Matthew Scace, Matthew Scace

Calgary, Edmonton mayors call potential separatism referendum 'dangerous'

CALGARY -- Alberta's two big-city mayors say a separation referendum would be "devastating" to their local economies and is a needless distraction during a period in which the country should be focused on unity.

David Baxter

NDP talking to the Carney government about getting official party status: Davies

Interim NDP leader Don Davies says his party is in "very early" discussions with the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney about being granted official party status in the House of Commons. The NDP was reduced to seven seats in the election, below the 12-seat threshold for official party status in the Commons.

Marlo Glass

From first impressions to policy planning, public servants await new cabinet, new Parliament

From dusting off financial documents to preparing to welcome new ministers, there’s plenty of work to be done before King Charles III delivers the throne speech.

Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert, Rob Russo

Good Talk -- A New Pope In A World Of Trump, Carney and Chaos

Lots to discuss after a week where Mark Carney sits down with Donald Trump in the White House, Pierre Poilievre fights to hold on to his leadership, and a new prime minister tries to build a cabinet that can deliver on the promises that won an election. But we start with a new Pope, and what that could mean. Chantal...

Patti Sonntag

Former Liberal minister’s pandemic-era role in medical supply deal renews concerns over insider access

Two Canadian medical supply manufacturers, as well as an industry group that represents 15 such firms, want the federal lobbying commissioner to investigate former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps’ contacts with senior officials about pandemic medical supply contracts. “We will contact the lobbying commissioner to ask why … companies connected with politicians or past politicians get preferential treatment over Canadian...

Stephanie Taylor

Canada is a 'priority,' U.S. ambassador says, citing U.K. trade announcement as 'template'

As Canada looks for ways to see U.S. tariffs lifted, the country’s ambassador to Canada suggested the recent trade announcement with the United Kingdom could be a “template.” “I think this will kind of be a template for how we go around the world,” U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told National Post. Article content Hoekstra made his comments as...

Dylan Robertson

Canada and Europe are collaborating on defence. What that might look like.

As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the future of the NATO military alliance, Canada is looking to partner with the European Union on defence. Here's a closer look at what's driving this major shift in transatlantic relations.

US Poli

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press

Deputy attorney general who defended Trump in hush money trial named acting Librarian of Congress

NEW YORK (AP) -- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting Librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday.

Jim Vertuno, The Associated Press

Sen. Cornyn of Texas says federal probe started into Muslim-centered community near Dallas

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.

Lisa Mascaro, The Associated Press

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts that Democrats warn will leave millions without care

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans unveiled the cost-staving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's " big, beautiful bill " late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

Matt O'brien, The Associated Press

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has fired the nation's top copyright official , Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.

International

U.S. and China agree to slash reciprocal tariffs in major step toward easing trade war

Jamey Keaten, Will Weissert And Christopher Bodeen, The Associated Press

US touts 'substantial progress' in tariff talks with China, but details are still scarce

GENEVA (AP) -- The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered "a great deal of productivity" in resolving differences between the world's two leading economic powers, after officials wrapped two days of bargaining in Switzerland following President Donald Trump imposing steep tariffs and Beijing retaliating.

Paul Wiseman, Didi Tang And Jamey Keaten, The Associated Press

US-China tariff talks to continue Sunday, an official tells AP, as Trump touts 'great progress made'

GENEVA (AP) -- Sensitive talks between U.S. and Chinese delegations over tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy ended after a day of prolonged negotiations and will resume Sunday, an official told The Associated Press.

Paul Wiseman, Didi Tang And Jamey Keaten, The Associated Press

Tariff talks begin between US and Chinese officials in Geneva as the world looks for signs of hope

GENEVA (AP) -- The U.S. Treasury Secretary and America's top trade negotiator began talks with high-ranking Chinese officials in Switzerland Saturday aiming to de-escalate a dispute that threatens to cut off trade between the world's two biggest economies and damage the global economy.

Didi Tang, The Associated Press

You called me. No - you called ME. Before US-China meeting, nations each say the other wanted talks

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Who called first?

Think Tank

Ryan Manucha

Nova Scotia leading the way on reducing interprovincial trade barriers

Sergey Sukhankin

A fork in the road: As bifurcation hits the global uranium industry, the secure path leads to Canada

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has forever changed global commodities markets. The economic sanctions subsequently imposed on Russia exposed multiple risks related to (over)reliance on a single or dominant suppliers of critical materials (Sukhankin 2024a).

John Milloy

God and Mr. Carney

Despite knowing very little about him, Canadians chose Mark Carney as their new prime minister. Fearful of the bellicose threats coming from the United States about Canada becoming the 51st state, voters turned to the former central banker as a steady hand to deal with President Donald Trump. With no previous political experience to point to, much was made during...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Dean Beeby

Cyber-protection agency a victim of fraud

Canada’s premier agency for cyber-security, which helps governments and businesses defend against bad actors, itself got scammed as part of a wide-ranging IT overbilling fraud worth several million dollars.

Éric Blais

The Conservatives’ best-performing ad was probably their most derided

Some dismissed it as the “erectile dysfunction” ad. Others laughed it off as a desperate Hail Mary to salvage a faltering campaign in Southern Ontario—specifically in the all-important 905 region. Well, they can stop laughing. Call it the blue belt now. The Conservatives not only held their ground in the 905—they flipped several Liberal ridings.

Dean Beeby

Welcome to the new post-transparency

The world is chaotic. Sovereignty, diplomacy, trade, free speech, science are all under assault. Daily life seems suddenly dangerous. Even the weather report is scary. “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” as William Butler Yeats put it in The Second Coming (1919). We’ve entered an era of might makes right. Familiar rules are changing. Among the changes is the...

Podcasts

Where does Trump’s trade war go next?

Top economic officials from the U.S. and China met in Geneva, Switzerland over the weekend. This was the first time that they’ve had face-to-face since the start of their enormous trade war.

PM Carney's next challenge: who's in and who's out of cabinet

Tomorrow Prime Minister Mark Carney will be unveiling his first cabinet since receiving a minority mandate from voters 2 weeks ago. The decisions will not be easy, as Carney has to navigate regional representation, a leaner inner circle, and a trade war with the U.S. that hangs over every federal decision. So who stays and who may get promoted?

Was the Trump-Carney meeting 'transformational'?

The long-awaited Carney-Trump summit in the Oval Office left the Canadian delegation feeling encouraged, though the U.S. president still taunted the prime minister over Canada becoming the 51st American state. Former Quebec premier Jean Charest, also a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Council on Canada-U.S. Relations, joins the show to explain why he believes Canada could ultimately have reason...

‘Ally is a verb’: How to do your part for reconciliation, with Rose LeMay

Author, columnist and CEO Rose LeMay joins The Hot Room to discuss her new book, Ally is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.