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Graham Richardson

U.S. ambassador warns Canadian politicians: ‘Keep your nose out of American politics’

Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, is warning Canadian politicians to stay out of American politics, saying officials are monitoring potential “political interference in the U.S. midterms.” In an interview with “The Really Big Show” podcast, Hoekstra suggested the actions of several Canadian politicians, including Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, could amount to interference in close American races just weeks...

Catherine Morrison

Hoekstra says U.S. watching Canada for signs of interference in midterm elections

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says American officials are "closely watching" Canadian politicians for signs of election interference ahead of the pivotal midterms next month. During an interview on the "The Really Big Show" podcast that was posted last week, Hoekstra said political ads run by the province of Ontario last year could be interpreted as political interference. U.S...

Kate McKenna

Ottawa to announce over $350M for skilled trades worker training, recruitment

The federal government will announce plans to help fund new infrastructure, equipment and recruitment efforts by unions and other organizations to train workers as part of a major funding announcement expected on Thursday. Secretary of State for Labour John Zerucelli is expected to announce more than $350 million in funding, according to a senior government official speaking on background.

Murray Brewster

Black Hawk down: Trump's trade war pauses Canadian helicopter deal

Ottawa halted plans to buy 16 U.S.-made helicopters ahead of trade talks: sources. The Liberal government quietly ordered a pause on a modest, but important purchase of 16 U.S.-made UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters just before trade negotiations began last summer with the Trump administration, CBC News and Radio-Canada have learned. The aircraft, which are intended for use by Canada's special...

Lisa Johnson

Kenney says UCP must choose federalist roots, expel separatists after Alberta vote

Former premier Jason Kenney, who co-founded Alberta's governing United Conservative Party, says separatists have infiltrated it and are wielding an outsized influence. Kenney, speaking to business leaders in Edmonton alongside his former political rival Rachel Notley, said Tuesday that after the province's separation vote the party will face a "reckoning." He said the UCP needs to decide whether it stands...

Polls

David Coletto

Liberal 12-point lead holds as focus on Trump fades slightly

Our latest national tracking survey was conducted from October 2 to 13, 2026, as the federal government continues to navigate an uncertain economic environment, ongoing tensions with the United States, and persistent concerns about affordability. Since our previous survey in late September, the Carney government has continued to emphasize economic growth, investment, and affordability. The Prime Minister announced a $2-billion...

Nik Nanos

LPC 48.8, CPC 29.5, NDP 11.1

The Liberals remain ahead in federal voting intentions, with 48.8% support among decided voters compared with 29.5% for the Conservatives and 11.1% for the NDP. Mark Carney is the first choice for prime minister among 60.7% of Canadians, followed by Pierre Poilievre at 20.9%. Concern about Donald Trump and Canada-U.S. relations ranks as the country’s leading national issue. Jobs and...

Opinion

Namir Anani

Canada’s AI advantage won’t matter if we can’t turn it into economic power

Bruce Anderson

If the Conservative Party wants to win, it should part company with its fringe.

Some conservatives believe they struggle to win elections because of media bias. Some say it’s because they are unfairly maligned by people on the left. These points are debatable, but to me they are a distraction from the real reasons Conservatives are finding it hard to get traction today. Voters prioritize economic policy, keeping taxes down, and promoting trade and...

News

Newfoundland and Labrador expecting windfall from soaring oil prices

Newfoundland and Labrador's finance minister says skyrocketing oil prices are expected to deliver a windfall for the province. Craig Pardy had previously said he anticipated additional revenues of more than $500 million, as the war in Iran sent crude prices soaring. But on Wednesday he said that figure is even higher, though he said the public will have to wait...

Stuart Benson, Aidan Raynor

The numbers game: Liberals leading fundraising circuit since 2019, but Tories charge more

In the first part of a series on political fundraising, The Hill Times explores eight years of data showcasing that the Liberals have hosted 430 fundraisers representing $40-million in potential value. That's more than twice the official opposition in tally and totals, but Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ranks No. 1 in both attendance and estimated value since November 2022.

Politician's Pen

Scott Aitchison

After seven years in Parliament, I’ve met a lot of people. There’s one I’ll never forget

Growing up in Huntsville, Ont., I learned early that community is not an abstract concept. It has faces and names. This was not simply something I observed; it was my lived experience. Months before my 16th birthday, determined to chart a path different from the one my parents had envisioned for me, I left home. I had no plan.

Senator David Wells

Climate resilience: less talk, more building

Canada’s infrastructure is under growing pressure from floods, wildfires, severe storms, aging assets, and mismanagement. When roads close, ports are disrupted, or electricity systems fail, the consequences extend beyond physical damage. Businesses lose ready access to mar...

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Susan Delacourt

Donald Trump’s original Canadian bad cop has something to say

One year ago this week, Doug Ford unveiled the anti-tariff ad that incurred the wrath of Donald Trump. Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland was given an early look at that ad, she reveals in her new book, which also makes clear she was a fan of standing up to Trump that way, even if it did make the president...

Andrew Coyne

First past the post sets Canada up for secession threats

Canada is often described as a divided country, and of course it is. No country as large and diverse as ours, built on two official languages, 10 provinces, several dozen Crown-indigenous treaties and countless ethnicities, could fail to be. But lots of other countries have similar divisions, without arriving at the fix we are now in, with not one but...

Don Braid

Don't be duped into flipping yes-to-Canada vote to future referendum

Voters, please don’t be fooled into voting no to Canada in order to “send Ottawa a message.” Article content Convincing you to do that is the strategy of failed separatists who are trying to pull victory out of the voting that concludes next Monday. In this context, sending a message means endorsing a genuine separation referendum at some vague point...

Christopher Pigott, Thomas Roper, Richard Charney, Craig Munroe, John D.R. Craig, Brian G. Johnston

Canada Labour Code changes are not an attack on workers' rights

If Canadians focused solely on recent commentary from union leaders and their lawyers, they’d be forgiven for thinking the current Liberal government has been engaged in a long battle against workers’ rights, culminating in a final charge against the right to strike.

Andrew Phillips

Chrystia Freeland book spills the tea on her ‘Unreliable Boyfriends” and Justin Trudeau does not come off well

First of all, that title. Chrystia Freeland chose to call her new book “Unreliable Boyfriend” — the boyfriend in question being the United States — which puts the focus firmly on her role in managing Canada’s fraught relationship with Donald Trump’s America.

Tasha Kheiriddin

Carney struggles to know if he should back Trump on Russia, or not

Prime Minister Mark Carney has built his political reputation on being the adult in the room — and a man at ease in the corridors of power. He’s a former central banker with friends in high places, a guy who understands how the world works, and, supposedly, a leader who can handle U.S. President Donald Trump. Article content But this...

Tyler Dawson

Don’t buy it when the separatists say the referendum is about leverage

The moment for voting approaches on the Alberta referendum, and the separatists, having seemingly largely failed to convince a critical mass of Albertans to adopt their millenarian view of the province’s place within Confederation, are now putting an awful lot of weight in an alternate way to make their case – namely, that this is all about leverage. Leverage, you...

Adam Radwanski

Mark Carney says he might ramp up immigration again. We need to see his plan first

It’s unlikely Mark Carney was aiming to relaunch a national immigration debate when he popped into the New York Times last month and mentioned in passing that Canada will “resume some controlled increase in the population” once the system is under control. But that, unsurprisingly, has been the result — with opposition MPs warning about Ottawa again letting in “too...

Fen Osler Hampson

Elon Musk and the New American Meddling

It didn’t take long for Elon Musk, one of President Donald Trump’s attack dogs, to stick his unwelcome nose into Canada’s domestic political drama. Shortly after the Parti Québécois’s election victory on October 5th, he endorsed Quebec independence and, to pour more gasoline on the fire, said Alberta and Saskatchewan should leave Canada too. Musk, who has Canadian roots, studied...

Michael Fox

Beyond the Balance Sheet: The True Scale of Ontario’s Indigenous Economy

For decades, public discourse regarding Indigenous economies in Ontario has been framed through a narrow lens of dependency or isolated community-level initiatives. Our firm’s comprehensive report, Indigenous Economic Contribution Analysis of Ontario, changes that narrative entirely. By integrating Statistics Canada’s Indigenous Peoples Economic Account with provincial input-output models, new data show that Indigenous economic activity is a robust, widely distributed...

Michael Harris

Not sure if the world can take two more years of Trump

Enough is enough. It is not at all certain that the world can take two more years of United States President Donald Trump. A dangerous and possibly demented man occupies the most powerful office in the world, and he is increasingly using it to lash out at anyone who opposes him.

Susan Riley

The moral retreat of Quebec’s political class

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of last week’s provincial election in Quebec was not the threat of constitutional turmoil, or even separation—which does not feel imminent, for various reasons. It was the silence, from nearly all parties, concerning legislation aimed at driving Muslim women who wear a hijab from public life in the province. That isn’t the stated goal of...

Aaron Wherry

Mark Carney faces the return of national unity politics

If it has been said that the first job of a Canadian prime minister is national unity, it was easier in recent years to forget. Before this summer, it had been 30 years since a prime minister had to worry about a provincial referendum to secede. Before this week, it had been more than a decade since a prime minister...

Campbell Clark

The weakest links in Carney’s cabinet are still there

Most Canadians don’t know much about the Singh decision. But if you’re the country’s Immigration Minister, you must. So it was alarming that Lena Metlege Diab seemed confused when she was asked about the seminal 1985 Supreme Court decision in an interview for a Radio-Canada podcast.

Althia Raj

Scott Aitchison’s resignation is a dire warning for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Parry Sound—Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison’s upcoming departure from the House of Commons reflects the greater malaise within Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative caucus. Aitchison, Huntsville’s former mayor, sees himself, like many MPs, as a doer. Few politicians want to sit back and watch others make big decisions. They want to be cabinet ministers; some want to lead the party, and dream of...

Chrystia Freeland

Liberal democracies must embrace friendshoring – or become the easy prey of the world’s bullies

Globalization’s fans argue that populist movements of the left and the right use global trade as a whipping boy for the other big challenge liberal democracies confront, and one which is a lot harder to address: how to enjoy the economic growth that capitalism delivers while also distributing the fruits of that growth beyond the 1 per cent. How can...

John Ivison

A Bill 21 explosion could engulf Carney, Quebec and Canada

The Supreme Court’s coming ruling has the potential to reignite separatism and quake the teetering balance between courts and government

Andrew MacDougall

An important political lesson for Carney: Nothing respects a border

In one of the most famous television commercials in Canadian history, a man puts an eraser to a stylized map of North America and removes the border between Canada and the United States. Aired during the 1988 federal election campaign, it was the Liberals’ way of protesting then-prime minister Brian Mulroney’s negotiation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. They didn’t...

Andrew Coyne

The Alberta referendum: a pointless, futile stunt, just like the last one

This is not the first time Albertans have been asked to vote on matters outside their jurisdiction. Five years ago, under United Conservative Party premier Jason Kenney, the province asked its citizens whether Section 36(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 – the one committing the government of Canada to the “principle” of equalization payments – should be removed from the...

Lawrence Martin

A Nobel Prize for Mark Carney? Premature. Person of the Year award? Thumbs-up

The Nobel Peace Prize is being announced Friday and Prime Minister Mark Carney is considered a contender. Can we imagine if it’s the Canadian who takes the award and not the man in the White House who has hardly let a week go by without sounding desperate for the honour? Donald Trump claims he has ended no fewer than eight...

Tabatha Southey

What if ‘Buy Canadian’ just makes us more American?

These days I read product labels as carefully as I used to read liner notes. You’ll not get an “assembled in” or a “distributed in” Canada past me any more than you’d have got a “the band’s third bass player got legal rights to the name and this album’s even less live than any of its founding members” album past...

Mathieu Roy

Nation-Building Requires Investment in Nonprofit Sector

Susan Delacourt

Tumbler Ridge allegations describe a scary new frontier in crime

The FBI affidavit filed in the Tumbler Ridge investigation is a true punch in the gut — not just for anyone who read it, but for governments forced to recognize the sheer scope of all that apparently went wrong. Worse, it’s hard not to walk away with the sense that government doesn’t have the tools it needs to thwart all...

Andrew Coyne

The weakness of its mandate will not deter the PQ from the chaos and division of its project

It is hard to convey how thin a mandate the Parti Québécois has just won in Quebec, but I will try. With 28 per cent of the vote, the PQ’s popular vote share is the smallest for any winning party in any election, not just in the modern history of Canada but, as far as I can tell, in any...

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Christl Dabu

Cross-border travel for Canadian, U.S. tourists saw September surge compared to 2025: StatCan

The trade war doesn’t appear to be deterring many Canadians and Americans from travelling across the border, new data from Statistics Canada suggests. Canadian-resident return trips from south of the border – both by car and air travel – rose for the sixth straight month year over year, according to StatCan’s latest numbers released Tuesday. Canadians made a total of...

Dale Smith

Is ‘digital trade alignment’ the Trojan horse of sovereignty?

In the lead-up to the scuppered trade talks between the Canadian and American governments, the term “digital trade alignment” was being floated by the U.S. trade representative as part of the discussions.

Jeremy Simes

Saskatchewan politician says paid nearly $30K for private jets; NDP wants answers

A Saskatchewan Party backbencher says he paid close to $30,000 out of his own pocket for two trips on a private jet and that one of those flights was for government business. Kevin Weedmark released a letter Tuesday from Maurice Herauf, the province's conflict of interest commissioner, who provided his opinion on the airfare expenses. Herauf wrote in the Sept...

Catherine Morrison

Carney to attend 'Forever Canadian' rallies in Alberta days before referendum

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to attend two "Forever Canadian" rallies in Alberta this week, just ahead of the province's referendum. On Oct. 19, Albertans will vote on the whether to stay in Canada or hold a future separation referendum. There are also nine other questions involving constitutional and immigration issues. The "Forever Canadian" campaign, launched by Alberta’s former...

Wolfgang Depner

B.C.'s Eby declines to reveal size of donation after $10-a-day daycare revelation

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says he and his wife donated the difference in costs after their children's daycare fell under the $10-a day program a couple years ago, but he declined to specify the amount. Eby says he and wife Cailey Lynch, a doctor, didn't need the daycare discount that has only reached a minority of parents in...

Dominion Dynamics to jointly produce Ukrainian drones in Canada

The Ottawa-based defence company Dominion Dynamics is partnering with Ukrainian robotics company Tencore to start building its ground-based drone vehicles in Canada as early as next year. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at a defence conference in Washington, D.C., today which outlines their plans to manufacture Tencore's Termit drone in Canada and install Dominion's software in the...

Canada joins allies in expressing 'regret' over postponed Palestinian elections

Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Australia expressed deep "regret" Tuesday over the postponement of Palestinian presidential and legislative elections. The votes were set to happen next month. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has delayed them until September 2027. In a media statement, Canada and its allies said the delay deprives Palestinians of the chance to vote and noted that elections...

Stuart Benson

‘A real warning’: foreign influence registry off to rocky start with dearth of expected registrants

Canada’s new foreign influence registry was supposed to make it easier for the public to see who is trying to influence government on behalf of foreign interests, but more than two months after it was launched, barely any of the expected listings have materialized. Alongside the sparse registry, the rollout has also faced technical issues and privacy breaches, leaving current...

The Context: A Trail Worth Protecting and Investing

Since 1992, the Trans Canada Trail has connected Canadians to each other and to nature, and it has been an economic and environmental asset for communities nationwide. Ongoing federal funding is critical to protect what Canada has already built.

Liam Casey

Ontario to move northwest regions to permanent daylight time

Ontario is set to move parts of the province's northwest region to permanent daylight time in order to align with Manitoba.

Murray Brewster

Billions more for defence, but Canada's military still faces an old budget squeeze

Operational spending review comes as expenses grow for salaries, equipment. The Canadian military is on the verge of another round of internal belt-tightening, despite an enormous influx of cash from the federal government, CBC News has learned. It appears to be a combination of past and current budget initiatives colliding with the expectations and demands associated with the gush of...

More than 300 advance polls open across Alberta in historic referendum on separation

Roughly 310 advance polling stations open across Alberta today in a historic vote on the province's place in Canada. Albertans are to begin marking an X on ballots listing 10 questions. The first nine focus on Canada's Constitution and immigration.

B.C. party leaders make campaign stop at Vancouver trade board ahead of election

The leaders of British Columbia's three major political parties will pitch their plans to business leaders in Vancouver with less than two weeks to go before the provincial election. NDP Leader David Eby, Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson and Green Party Leader Emily Lowan are slated to speak at an event this afternoon hosted by the Greater Vancouver Board of...

Former political rivals Notley and Kenney to unite at event ahead of separation vote

Two former premiers who were on the opposite ends of the political spectrum in Alberta will unite today to keep the province from quitting Canada. Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley are set to speak at an event in the province's capital. The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce is hosting them.

Eby slams U.S.-style health care privatization, Conservatives claim 'fearmongering'

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby took aim at the premier next door while campaigning in this month's election, promising not to implement what he called the "U.S.-style privatization" of health care. Eby told a group of supporters asking him questions in Delta on Monday that Alberta's United Conservative Party government made vague promises about protecting public health care, but...

Michael Serapio

Carney speaks directly to Albertans in Thanksgiving message

Prime Minister Mark Carney is using Thanksgiving Monday to deliver a direct message to Alberta voters: choose unity and prosperity. With one week to go before a consequential referendum on Alberta’s future in Canada, Carney is making one of his strongest appeals yet for the province to remain part of the country. In a video message released to social media...

Dylan Robertson

France open to defence deals with Canada despite its push for arms autonomy: envoy

France's new ambassador in Ottawa says her country is open to working closer with Canada on defence procurement, despite its push for Europe to develop a fully autonomous arms industry. "In the defence sector and in other equally strategic sectors, France advocates for a European preference in procurement," French Ambassador Helene Farnaud-Defromont said in a French-language interview. "The ideal for...

Catherine Morrison

Trade minister leading 300-member mission to India this week

International Trade Maninder Sidhu is in India this week as the two countries look to reach a free-trade agreement by the end of the year. Sidhu is set to make stops in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru during his visit. He is being joined by almost 300 delegates representing businesses and exporters from across Canada. A Global Affairs Canada news release...

Poilievre to visit Detroit to push tariff-free auto pact proposal

Conservative leader plans to meet with American business leaders. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will travel to Detroit on Tuesday to lobby U.S. business leaders for an end to cross-border tariffs impacting Canadian manufacturing, his office announced Monday. His trip to the Motor City comes as trade frictions continue to impact key Canadian sectors, including automotive, steel, aluminum, and forestry.

Abbas Rana

Quebec Liberal MP Iacono’s second gig as a strategic adviser at a Montreal law firm raises eyebrows

Some Liberal MPs and former senior Liberals say Liberal MP Angelo Iacono’s second job doesn't pass the 'smell test,' but the Montreal-area MP says he only accepted the position after consulting the federal ethics commissioner. Liberal MP Angelo Iacono’s second job as a strategic adviser at a Montreal law firm is raising questions about perceived conflict of interest among some...

David Valentin

Federal Tracker: Liberals 45%, Conservatives 29%; Poilievre Ratings Worsen

Liberals lead by 16 points. Poilievre is at 32% favourable and 55% unfavourable, while Lewis improves to 35% favourable without lifting the NDP above 15%. The latest Liaison Strategies Weekly Federal Tracker finds the Liberals at 45% and the Conservatives at 29% among decided and leaning voters, a 16-point Liberal lead. The Conservative vote has edged up from last week's...

Kyle Duggan

Carney: Trump's 'energy ceasefire' could 'de-escalate' war in Ukraine

Mark Carney thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for "his leadership toward securing an energy ceasefire" between Ukraine and Russia, the Prime Minister's Office said on Sunday. But on the same day, Carney also expressed to Ukraine's leader that Trump's new diesel supply agreement with Russia undermines Canada's efforts to end the war in Europe. Trump posted on his Truth Social...

Kevin Maimann

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO says he's prepared to fight Canada in court over Stelco layoffs

Lourenco Goncalves also says he's open to selling the Hamilton-based steelmaker. The CEO of the American company that owns Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco says he's prepared to fight the Canadian government in court to preserve Stelco's plan to lay off hundreds of workers. Speaking Sunday on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves disputed the government's characterization that the company...

Kyle Duggan

Carney says U.S.-Russia diesel supply deal hurts Ukraine peace cause: PMO

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday and criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's new diesel fuel supply agreement with Russia. The Prime Minister's Office said the two leaders discussed Trump's agreement with Russia, announced Friday, that secures the supply of millions of tonnes of diesel fuel to the United States. "The prime minister was clear...

Spencer Van Dyk

‘I think they could actually win’: Low turnout could favour separatists in Alberta referendum, Kenney worries

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney is calling on Albertans to vote in next week’s referendum on separation in large numbers, and to deliver a decisive result for the federalist side. “I’m concerned about turnout, because the lower the turnout, the better for the separatist side,” Kenney told CTV Question Period host Vassy Kapelos in an interview airing Sunday. “If turnout...

Canada advises no travel to Riyadh airport after Houthi attacks, embassy remains open

Canada's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says the embassy in Riyadh remains open for Canadians who are in need of consular assistance, following deadly Houthi strikes against the international airport in Riyadh. Ambassador Jean-Philippe Linteau says in a video posted on Sunday that anyone in Riyadh who encounters military debris should walk away and contact authorities, and not post about it...

Jack Farrell

Elections Alberta 'ready to deliver' as advanced referendum polls to open this week

Albertans can start trekking to the polls this week to have their say on whether it's time to look at quitting Confederation. Advanced polls for the Oct. 19 referendum are set to open Tuesday, and if requests for mail-in ballots are any indication, there could be a record turnout. Officials at Elections Alberta say they're ready. "We've completed scenario planning...

Mzwandile Poncana

Minister Ali sidesteps question on whether red-tape reforms mean fewer public servants

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali stopped short of a direct answer when asked at an Oct. 8 news conference on the Hill whether Ottawa’s drive for reduced red-tape assumes fewer federal public servants will be needed to grant approvals, carry out inspections, and handle other regulatory work. When the question turned to staffing, Ali (Brampton-Chinguacousy Park, Ont.) spoke instead about...

Dylan Robertson

France's envoy says Carney admired for response to 'extremely radical' U.S.

France's new ambassador to Canada says her country admires the Carney government's response to "extremely radical" American demands and is calling for swift action to boost Canada's strategic ties with Europe. "My mission is very clear. It's to work toward making France one of Canada's closest allies in Europe, in each field, in every sector," French Ambassador Helene Farnaud-Defromont told...

Racy Rafique

Prime minister set to be in Alberta for critical last week ahead of referendum

Province's voters to cast ballots on several issues, including separating from Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to be in Alberta in the coming week, as the days tick down to a crucial referendum vote on Oct. 19, CBC News has learned. Voters will cast their final ballots on a number of issues, including the key question of separating...

US Poli

Catherine Morrison

Hoekstra says U.S. watching Canada for signs of interference in midterm elections

Graham Richardson

U.S. ambassador warns Canadian politicians: ‘Keep your nose out of American politics’

The Associated Press

The Latest: Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns, vows to challenge allegations of improper conduct

Kimberly Guilfoyle has resigned as ambassador to Greece and says she'll vigorously defend herself against allegations of improper and possibly illegal conduct. Trump's new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, dropped the news during a brief first press conference.

The Associated Press

The Latest: Trump's diesel deal with Putin draws criticism from a frustrated Congress

President Donald Trump's diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia's war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia. It joins a growing list of instances where the president has sided with Putin, often at the expense of Ukraine -- and U.S. interests...

International

Catherine Morrison

Hoekstra says U.S. watching Canada for signs of interference in midterm elections

Graham Richardson

U.S. ambassador warns Canadian politicians: ‘Keep your nose out of American politics’

Canada joins allies in expressing 'regret' over postponed Palestinian elections

Kyle Duggan

Carney: Trump's 'energy ceasefire' could 'de-escalate' war in Ukraine

Kyle Duggan

Carney says U.S.-Russia diesel supply deal hurts Ukraine peace cause: PMO

Think Tank

Amanda Clarke, Étienne Charbonneau

Dismantling Ottawa’s Costly Web of Rules: How to Build a Functioning Federal Accountability Regime

The federal government’s internal accountability regime continues to grow more complex. Public service leadership is detached from policy implementation and socialized to avoid risk. Public servants should be evaluated on the rules they remove and services delivered. Those with delivery experience should be rotated periodically into roles that establish internal processes and policies. Improving the federal accountability regime requires simplifying...

Christopher Ragan, Rachel Samson

Defying Gravity: The Compelling but Challenging Case for Diversifying Canada’s Trade

Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again trade war, trade diversification has been the talk of the town. But for a country like Canada, which has long felt the gravitational pull of the enormous U.S. market, diversifying trade will be no easy feat. It also shouldn’t be the goal in and of itself. As the first part of the IRPP’s new...

Dr. Xiaowen Zhang, Dr. Weisu Yu, Philippe Rheault

Beyond De-Risking: China and Canada’s Trade Resilience

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...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Dean Beeby

Bravery medals coming soon for RCMP officers in N.S. mass murder

RCMP officers who responded to the April 2020 mass murders in Nova Scotia will receive bravery medals from Governor General Louise Arbour. An announcement is expected “imminently,” says an Arbour spokesperson. The medals follow 23 awards for excellence quietly distributed last year by RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme to RCMP members and employees who managed the grisly incident, in which 2...

Dean Beeby

24 Sussex needs rehab, not a grand redesign

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...

Anil Arora

Neither Uncontrolled Acceleration Nor Technological Paralysis - Here’s What AI Governance Should Look Like

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...

Podcasts

What Does Putin Have On Trump? Seriously, What Does He Have?

As Thanksgiving fell on Monday this week, Dr. Janice Stein joins us for her regular weekly conversation on Wednesday this week. The topic is all about Donald Trump's claim that he arranged a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia ... a ceasefire neither country says they were aware of. What's up with that? Well, oil, specifically diesel oil, is what.

Moore-Butts: How To Deal With Political Stress

I received a number of letters this week from loyal Bridge listeners and viewers on two topics worth exploring. From Albertans worried about being "stressed out" by the referendum in their province and what it may mean for them and the country. And from British Columbians with related concerns about the upcoming BC election and the impact it may have...

"I'm Not Concerned" - Danielle Smith on the Alberta Separatist Referendum

There are just a few days left until Alberta’s referendum on separation (and more). If the vote goes through, it won't redraw the country’s borders overnight, but it could give Premier Smith a mandate to pursue the next vote where Alberta could actually separate.

Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, Carney, and the trade war

It's hard to think of a time in the modern age when relations between the U.S. and Canada were at a lower point. Since U.S. President Donald Trump started the trade war, tensions have risen, while Canadian's opinion of our neighbour to the south have fallen. While some politicians and commentators south of the border have taken aim at Canada...