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Benjamin Lopez Steven, Murray Brewster

Carney weighs sending soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies: sources

Trump threatening tariffs on European nations who oppose U.S. controlling Greenland. Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering sending soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on European nations unless they let him purchase and control the semiautonomous island. Two senior Canadian officials have told CBC News that...

Abbas Rana

‘We’re in real trouble’: Carney faces historic crisis amid trade war, U.S. annexation threat, and two potential separatist referendums, say politicos

With the ongoing trade war with the United States, frequent annexation rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, and the potential for two separatist referendums at home, Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing some of the most serious challenges confronted by any prime minister. Still, his performance is receiving mixed reviews from some political players who say Carney’s handling of the...

Stephanie Levitz

Pierre Poilievre campaigns for support ahead of his leadership review

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and a team of loyalists are working to ensure that party members are on side with his leadership ahead of a vote on his future later this month. Though Mr. Poilievre is widely expected to win the Jan. 30 vote, they are not leaving the end result to chance. Mr. Poilievre is holding private meet-and-greets across...

Abbas Rana

Conservative national council confirms Kurek as candidate in Battle River-Crowfoot, Poilievre to run in a different riding in next election

The Conservative Party’s national council chose to pass a motion formally declaring that the riding's former MP would return even though Damien Kurek had publicly stated that he planned to run in his home riding in the next federal election. In an unusual move, the Conservative Party’s powerful national council passed a motion at its December quarterly meeting confirming former...

Kyle Duggan

Carney 'concerned' about U.S. 'escalation' on Greenland after tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is "concerned" about U.S. "escalation" on its push to buy Greenland after it hit eight European nations opposed to the U.S. purchasing the self-governing Danish territory with the threat of tariffs. President Donald Trump says that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland will face a 10 per cent...

Polls

David Valentin

Liberals Widen lead to 5, 40% to 35%

A new Liaison Strategies national survey finds the Liberals widening their lead over the Conservatives. Among decided and leaning voters, the Liberals lead with 40% to the Conservatives 35%, with the NDP at 11% and the Bloc at 8%. Meanwhile, Mark Carney’s approval rating is up once again to 57%. Liaison surveyed a random sample of 1,000 Canadians from January...

David Coletto

New Year, Same Deadlock: Liberals and Conservatives Tied as Trump Re-Emerges and Voters Stay Cautious

Between January 9 and 14, 2026, Abacus Data surveyed 1,850 Canadian adults, offering our first snapshot of the federal political landscape in the new year.

Opinion

Éric-Antoine Ménard

Can Someone Pull a Carney and Save the CAQ?

Campbell Clark

Mad King Trump would break the world to gain Greenland

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he is “concerned” about the escalation. It was a calm word for this particular bout of Donald Trump’s insanity. The President of the United States insists he will take Greenland from Denmark – and the European Union – and now says that he will use heavy tariffs to try to coerce allies into handing over...

News

Daniel Otis

What does Donald Trump actually want from Canada? Here’s what experts say

What does U.S. President Donald Trump actually want from Canada? While Trump says the U.S. doesn’t need Canadian products, he has also repeatedly expressed a desire to turn Canada into a “cherished” state. Before leaving office, former prime minister Justin Trudeau suggested the Trump administration was really after Canada’s natural wealth. Trump and U.S. officials are also pressuring Ottawa on...

In the news today: Carney goes to Davos, gun compensation, Chinese EV deal

Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Switzerland today for a meeting of the World Economic Forum in the ski resort town of Davos. Carney is set to give speeches aimed at drumming up investments in Canada while meeting with leaders of countries, institutions and corporations. U.S. President Donald Trump is also expected to speak at Davos, and his unpredictability could...

Politician's Pen

Naheed Nenshi

The threat to our nation is very real

A question I keep hearing from folks across Canada is pretty simple: “What the heck is going on in Alberta?” It’s a fair question. The Alberta government, whether through incompetence or malice, is dismantling public services, trampling on human rights, and threatening the very future of the country. Two factors in particular -- the rise of Alberta separatism and the...

Canadian cities are facing an extortion crisis. They cannot face it alone

Every mayor in Canada learns this lesson quickly: the problems that land on your desk are rarely abstract. They arrive as phone calls from small business owners or families whose sense of safety has been shaken. In Peel Region, extortion has become one of those problems. It’s no longer isolated or sporadic. And it’s no longer something municipalities can solve...

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Kevin Lynch, Paul Deegan

Welcome to Davos 2026: High-Altitude Damage Control in a Risky World

The 2026 edition of Davos that begins Monday will be notable for the 11th-hour exit of its founder, Klaus Schwab, and the subsequent, dominance-marking presence of President Donald Trump and the largest U.S. delegation to ever attend the World Economic Forum. The Swiss must be praying that Trump doesn’t decide that its luxury goods industries, exclusive resorts and prime geographical...

Bob Rae

Declaration in Defence of Canada and other states facing aggression

Canadian Declaration of Resistance in Defence of Sovereignty, Democracy, and Human Rights 1. We commit to defending the territorial integrity and democracy of our country, Canada, and to face any and all economic, physical or other attack from countries or forces pursuing aggressive aims, or threats to pursue such attack, with determination and devotion to our country. This commitment includes...

Don Newman

The New Urgency of Mark Carney’s Minority Math Problem

Before the House of Commons holiday break, it seemed as though it was just a matter of time before Mark Carney’s Liberals would slip into a majority in the House of Commons. Now, as MPs prepare to return to their seats on January 26th, as Pierre Poilievre braces for the hurdle of his end-of-January leadership review in Calgary, and as...

Jaime Watt

Canada needs to keep its eye on Marco Rubio

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuelan adventure has generated a great deal of ink about the so-called Donroe doctrine. Commentators are eager to impose some form of coherence on a wide-ranging and often contradictory series of foreign-policy actions. But the subject resists.

Conrad Black

Formidable Trump changes the world

The violent cavalcade of events in Iran is starting to reveal the new range of aggressive-responsive policy options that U.S. President Donald Trump has developed to replace the obsolete concept of most of his recent predecessors. For 80 years from 1941 the basic framework was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt in two addresses he gave at the beginning and end...

Susan Delacourt

Carney’s China deal seemingly didn’t rattle Trump — but right now, Canada isn’t his priority

Donald Trump was unexpectedly low-key when asked on Friday how he felt about Canada’s new, revitalized relationship with China. “Well, it’s OK. That’s what he should be doing,” Trump said, heaping yet more praise on Mark Carney. “It’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”...

Andrew Coyne

In seeking to deepen trade with China, Canada is hedging its bets

Perhaps you know this story. The CBC once held a contest in which the object was to complete the phrase “as Canadian as … ”, in the style of “as American as apple pie.” The winning entry: “As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances.” It was a self-deprecating joke about Canadian nationalism, at the time. Today, it describes a very...

Shannon Proudfoot

It’s clear Carney is now dealing with the world ‘as it is’

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s press conference on Friday after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was chock-full of news, a strange surprise given that the PMO had been spinning everyone toward low expectations before the trip began. The two countries had struck a deal in which Canada would dramatically lower its tariff rate on Chinese-made electric vehicles and China...

Aaron Wherry

What can new polling tell us about the health of Canadian democracy?

According to polling by the Environics Institute, 70 per cent of Canadians are either very or somewhat satisfied with "the way democracy works in Canada." Is that good? At the very least, it could certainly be worse. And Environics surveys show that the share of Canadians expressing satisfaction has held relatively steady over the last 15 years — it was...

Steve Paikin

Bob Rae, now a private citizen, tells it like it is. Sort of

For the first time since 1978, when he was first elected to Parliament, Bob Rae now finds himself without a so-called “important job.” His term as Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations just ended. Now, Ontario’s 21st premier and former interim leader of the federal Liberals is just Citizen Bob.

Political Pulse Panel

Political Pulse Panel on benefits, risks of deals with China

The Power & Politics panel of political insiders — Greg MacEachern, Melanie Richer and Fred DeLorey — discuss the risks and benefits of moving away from trade deals with the U.S. and turning toward China.

Fen Osler Hampson

In China, Carney Just Hit ‘Code Red’ on Trade

Until recently, Canadian trade policy followed a simple rule: stay in lockstep with Washington and don’t go out of your way to upset Donald Trump. But this week in Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney hit the “Code Red” button. By opening Canada’s door to Chinese EVs in exchange for lower Chinese tariffs on canola, peas and seafood, Carney has signalled...

Sharan Kaur

Carney’s China trade deal isn’t betrayal — it’s survival

The predictable chorus of disappointment following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement to lower trade barriers with China has already begun. But it is time for a wake-up call. For too long, Canada’s foreign policy has been an exercise in moral futility, fixated on critiquing the conduct of others while conveniently ignoring the decay of our own strategic options. In the...

Max Fawcett

Doug Ford can't have it both ways on EVs

The bromance, it seems, is over. After Prime Minister Mark Carney’s official visit to China yielded a much-anticipated deal on electric vehicle and agriculture exports, Ontario Premier Doug Ford came out swinging.

Bob Rae

Talk and Action in Tumultuous Times

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s travels this week have taken him to the west coast, where he met with Indigenous leaders, and then to China. From Beijing, he heads to Doha, the capital of Qatar, and then to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Canada’s journey of justice, peace and reconciliation with the Indigenous peoples who have lived on these lands...

Susan Delacourt

A hard ‘no’ or two awaits Mark Carney when he gets home from China

Even before Mark Carney headed off to China this week, he got several sharp reminders of challenges that will be awaiting the prime minister when he comes home. They come from outside the country and inside it too, and none of them are easily fixed.

Éric Blais

Legault, like Trudeau, had worn out his welcome. Will a new Carney-like leader revive the CAQ?

If politics is a market, then leaders are brands — and sometimes they suffer the same problem as founder-led companies: the person who built the thing becomes the person the thing can’t move past. Québec Premier François Legault effectively admitted that Quebec has reached that point when he announced his resignation, with an election looming and the Parti Québécois leading...

Campbell Clark

Legault’s inevitable resignation shuffles Quebec politics

François Legault’s days as Quebec premier have been numbered for a long time but his resignation, inevitable as it seemed, has nonetheless shuffled the cards of Quebec politics. Mr. Legault had been visibly suffering from the wear and tear of seven years in power and the Coalition Avenir Québec, the party he founded as a kind of third way to...

Justin Ling

This is going to be a long year in Quebec politics — and Legault’s resignation is only the beginning

Quebec Premier François Legault resigned on Wednesday, leaving an unholy mess in his wake. Now, with the province’s largest parties leaderless, it looks like a fait accompli that the Parti Québécois will win the 2026 election — steering Canada toward a third referendum on Quebec independence.

Tasha Kheiriddin

Legault's departure may signal a return to the past for Quebec

Quebec Premier François Legault announced Wednesday that he is resigning as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec and as premier, to step aside once a successor is chosen. In a hastily-called press conference (his own caucus was only brought in the loop that morning), Legault said, “I can see that many Quebecers currently want change and a change of premier...

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney’s minister’s tepid, late-night response was anything but ‘elbows up’

It reads like the kind of thing that, just a few years ago, would have been unbelievable. But on Elon Musk’s social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the AI chatbot Grok built into the site is being used to pump out deepfake non-consensual intimate images and even child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In response to international outcry, Musk limited...

John Ivison

Carney has leverage with China for a ‘partial’ deal on EV, grain tariffs

What do you do about a superpower you don’t trust but can’t afford to ignore? Prime Minister Mark Carney will hope he can find the answer to that puzzle during his visit to Beijing this week. Canada is caught in the crossfire between a Trump administration that has veered sharply towards protectionism and a Chinese regime whose actions are often...

Lawrence Martin

Rebuilding relations with China is a gamble Mark Carney has to take

Not too subtle: On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit, China’s state media warned that if Ottawa wanted progress in relations, it had to adopt a foreign policy separate from the United States. “If Ottawa still chooses to subject its China policy to the will of Washington,” the China Daily said in an editorial, efforts to mend ties...

Preston Manning

I challenge you to join me in the Re-Confederation Game

Suppose — just suppose — that in 2026 Canada’s federal-provincial relations continue to deteriorate under the mismanagement of the Carney government, that a clear majority of the citizens of Quebec or Alberta actually threaten to vote Yes on a clear secession question, and that the reactionary anti-development positions of several provincial and First Nations governments (like those of B.C.) continue...

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Tonda MacCharles

Mark Carney brushes off Doug Ford’s anger over China EV tariff cuts

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s response to Doug Ford’s criticism of Ottawa’s deal to reduce tariffs on Chinese EVs: he’s out to build the auto industry of the future, not the past. “Remember, this is a market that is the auto sector, which is evolving very rapidly,” Carney told reporters at a news conference. “We don’t want to be competitive in...

David Baxter

Carney says Chinese EV deal an 'opportunity' for Ontario, auto sector

Prime Minister Mark Carney says that the electric vehicle deal with China is an "opportunity" for Ontario and autoworkers. He says this is because there is interest in Chinese companies producing "affordable" electric vehicles in Canada. Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an agreement Friday that will see Canada allow Chinese electric vehicles into the country at a 6....

Robin Della Corte

Former foreign affairs minister warns Canada could be next in tariff dispute over Greenland

Canada’s former foreign affairs minister says it is possible the country could face tariffs from the United States following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement Saturday that he would impose tariffs on European countries that oppose U.S. control of Greenland. “There’s no question that the possibility exists,” Peter MacKay, former minister of foreign affairs, told CTV News Channel on Saturday...

Kyle Duggan

Carney agrees 'in principle' to Trump's Gaza peace board; details to be worked out

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has agreed in principle to join U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," meant to support the reconstruction of Gaza. Carney told reporters in Doha that Trump asked him about joining this board "a few weeks ago." The prime minister says details

The Canadian Press

Quebec minister Guilbault will leave politics at the end of her term

QUEBEC -- Quebec Municipal Affairs Minister Geneviève Guilbault announced Sunday morning that she would leave politics at the end of her term, saying the decision had been made ''a long time ago.''

Anja Karadeglija

Despite Liberal pivot, Conservatives to keep pressing for tougher crime measures

The Conservative Party has spent years accusing the Liberals of being too lenient on crime. Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal government's justice policy has taken a markedly tougher approach -- but the Conservatives say it's not enough and they have no intention of changing tack. "Absolutely not," said Conservative justice critic Larry Brock in response to a question...

‘Looking like a supplicant is undignified’: Michael Kovrig on Carney’s China trip

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig — who was detained by China for more than 1,000 days between 2018 and 2021 — says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tone and messaging during his trip to China were “worrisome.” In a bid to reset relations with China and counter trade threats from the United States, Carney became the first Canadian prime minister to...

Kyle Duggan

Carney says Qatar will make 'significant' investments in Canada's major projects

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Qatar has committed to "significant strategic investments" for Canada's major building projects. That capital will get projects built faster, "supercharge" energy industries and create jobs for Canadians, he said during a news conference in Doha. Calling it a "new chapter" in bilateral relations, Carney said the two countries will also strengthen "people-to-people" cultural ties, which...

Kamil Karamali

‘I was absolutely blown away’: Why car dealers say Canadian consumers could win from China EV deal

In almost every deal, there are winners and losers — and the Canada-China deal on electric vehicles appears to be no different. While Canadian automakers are sounding the alarm — or honking the horn, in this case — that the deal could threaten Canadian auto jobs and the domestic EV supply chain, some Canadian car dealership owners believe it is...

Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert, Bruce Anderson

Good Talk -- Made in China.

Mark Carney was in China for the past few days and leaves with a pocketful of deals. Sounds good but how good is it? Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson are here with their assessment of risks and rewards. It's a busy Good Talk with more on the agenda, from the resignation of Quebec's premier to what exactly is Canada's position...

Jim Bronskill

Federal firearm buyback program to open Monday, with March 31 deadline to register

OTTAWA -- Owners of banned firearms will have until the end of March to declare interest in a federal program offering compensation for turning in or permanently deactivating their guns.

Trump says he will tariff imports from 8 European countries for opposing U.S. control of Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10 per cent import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland, setting up a potentially dangerous test of U.S. partnerships in Europe. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the...

Ashley Burke, Benjamin Lopez Steven

Canada wants to be 1st in North America to build EV with Chinese knowledge: senior official

Official says Washington had advance warning about Canada's tariff deal with China. Canada wants to look at joint ventures and investments with Chinese companies within the next three years to build a Canadian electric vehicle with Chinese knowledge, according to a senior Canadian official. The official, who spoke on the condition they not be named, said the goal is for...

Stephanie Taylor

'Let me show what I can do': Why this Conservative MP wants to help Carney navigate Canada-U.S relations

'There are just not very many people who are in a situation where I think they can have a direct line to the White House,' Jamil Jivani says. While Parliament Hill swirls with speculation about potential floor-crossings, one Conservative MP is raising his hand, but for a different reason: To assist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government navigate the Canada-U.S. relationship...

The Canadian Press

Charles Milliard officially enters the Quebec Liberal leadership race

Charles Milliard has officially entered the race for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party to succeed Pablo Rodriguez, who resigned in December amid a leadership campaign-financing scandal. Milliard, a former head of Quebec's chamber of commerce, finished second in the contest that Rodriguez won last June.

Steven Chase

Canada to give foreign automakers who build vehicles here preferential access to domestic market: senior official

Canada is planning to reserve preferential access to its domestic auto market for foreign automakers who build vehicles in this country under a new auto policy to be released in February, a senior Canadian official said Saturday. The official also said Canada gave advance notice to the United States of its Jan. 16 decision to part with Washington and slash...

Davis Legree

‘A catalyst for change’: MPs bullish on Heated Rivalry’s impact on Canadian hockey culture

Liberal MP Rob Oliphant says he is tired of seeing only straight couples being intimate in movies and television shows. It’s partly why his interest was piqued when he saw trailers for the new Crave series Heated Rivalry about two young, closeted male hockey players who develop a secret sexual relationship, while their on-ice rivalry plays out in public.

Dylan Robertson

Carney visiting Qatar to drum up investment despite 'brutal' human rights record

Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Qatar to drum up investment deals with a country known for both its brutal dictatorship and its growing diplomatic and economic influence. "Today, the epicentre of diplomatic, economic, financial and commercial power in the Middle East is in the Gulf," said University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau, an expert on the Persian Gulf...

Raisa Patel

Many Canadians support an early federal election if it leads to political stability, poll suggests

Another federal election so soon? Most Canadians are not opposed to the idea, new research shows, but only if an early election was triggered to secure the stability and functioning of the country’s Parliament.

Peter Armstrong

Why Donald Trump endorsed Canada's deal with China

Can PM's deal help the U.S. forge its own detente with Xi Jinping? Donald Trump barely shrugged when asked about the deal Prime Minister Mark Carney forged with China this week. The U.S. president said such a deal simply made sense. “Well, that's OK, that's what you should be doing. I mean, it's a good thing for him to sign...

Evan Dyer

Countries have gotten results after enriching the Trumps. Could Canada do the same?

Crypto, golf deals and a 747 just a few ways the president and his family have benefited. Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado was the latest foreign leader to enter the Oval Office with a golden gift on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump was happy to take her Nobel Peace Prize, and even though it's not clear she'll receive anything...

Wolfgang Depner

B.C. Conservatives unveil leadership race rules as Peter Milobar joins growing field

British Columbia's Conservative Party has unveiled rules for its leadership race that include $115,000 in fees for contestants, who must sign a pledge to support the eventual winner set to be announced at the end of May. The rules say voting under a preferential ballot system will be held from May 9 to May 30, while the deadline for nominations...

Annie Bergeron-Oliver, Daniel Otis, Elianna Lev, Hunter Crowther

Carney to accept Trump’s offer to join ‘Board of Peace’ in rebuild of Gaza

Prime Minister Mark Carney will accept an invitation from Donald Trump to join the U.S. president’s “Board of Peace,” a U.S.-led effort in planning the future reconstruction of Gaza, CTV News has learned. Speaking on background before departing China on Friday, a senior Canadian government official told reporters the request came earlier in the day. Carney will accept, but has...

Josh Pringle

‘Hunger Games-style anxiety’: Unions raise concerns after 5,400 layoff notices issued to federal workers

A federal union says notices being issued across the public service are creating “a Hunger Games-style anxiety” that’s forcing public servants to fight for their jobs, as the federal government begins to implement its plans to cut 28,000 jobs over the next four years. Several federal departments began notifying public servants that their jobs may be impacted by workforce adjustments...

Marlo Glass

Scientists rally against coming job cuts as notices hit desks across the public service

Unions representing federal public servants have been making information public about how many employees may be affected by job losses, though departments are largely not confirming how many jobs will be cut.

Dylan Robertson

Carney's Canada-China deals are the product of months of diplomatic hustle

The agreements Prime Minister Mark Carney brokered over the two days of his Beijing visit are the result of months of diplomatic work and cultural knowledge, international relations experts say. Carleton University international affairs professor Fen Osler Hampson said Carney "would have not gotten on the plane" without knowing first he had "something big, some big bacon to bring back...

Kelly Geraldine Malone

Trump says it's a 'good thing' Carney signed a deal with China

While President Donald Trump said Friday it's a "good thing" that Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed a trade deal with China, his trade czar cautioned that Canada could regret the decision. When asked about Carney making the deal as he left the White House on Friday, Trump said, "That's OK." "That's what he should be doing. It's a good...

Kyle Duggan

Carney reaches 'landmark' tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

Canada reached a deal with Beijing on Friday to slash tariffs on a set number of Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for China dropping duties on agriculture products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said as he concluded a highly-anticipated trip to China. The deal marks a de-escalation in tensions with a country the Liberal government had, in recent years, branded as...

Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland

President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital. Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week...

Sarah Ritchie

Ford, Unifor sound alarm over China EV deal

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is slamming Canada's new trade agreement with China, saying it's inviting a flood of cheap Chinese electric vehicles with no guarantee of investments. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced today that Canada has agreed to slash its 100-per-cent tariff on Chinese EVs for up to 49,000 vehicles per year.

US Poli

Anne D'innocenzio, The Associated Press

Trump's voice in a new Fannie Mae ad is generated by artificial intelligence, with his permission

NEW YORK (AP) -- What sounds like President Donald Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video.

Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press

Trump administration social posts amid Minnesota immigration tensions seen as appealing to far right

As its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis intensifies, the Trump administration is leaning into messaging that borrows from phrases, images and music about national identity that have become popular among right-wing groups.

Ken Sweet, The Associated Press

As Trump's deadline for a cap on credit card rates looms, banks have only questions and no answers

NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump a week ago told the credit card industry it had until Jan. 20 to comply with his demand for a 10% cap on interest rates. With just days to go, consumer groups, politicians, and bankers alike remain unclear on what the White House has planned and whether Trump even remains serious about the idea.

Will Weissert, The Associated Press

Here's where Trump's most jaw-dropping promises stand a year into his second term

WASHINGTON (AP) -- From toppling Venezuela's leader to ordering mass deportations, from turning once independent government entities into rubber stamps to demolishing the East Wing for a White House ballroom, President Donald Trump spent his first year back in office trampling political norms and testing institutional checks and balances.

International

Kyle Duggan

Carney agrees 'in principle' to Trump's Gaza peace board; details to be worked out

Trump says he will tariff imports from 8 European countries for opposing U.S. control of Greenland

Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland

Sarah Ritchie

There is 'much alignment' between Canada, China on Greenland, Arctic sovereignty

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he found "much alignment" between his views on Greenland's sovereignty and those of Chinese President Xi Jinping in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's threats against the territory. "I had discussions with President Xi about the situation in Greenland, about our sovereignty in the Arctic, about the sovereignty of the people of Greenland and...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado gifts her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has accepted Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize medal at a meeting in the White House. Mr Trump called the gift a "wonderful gesture of mutual respect" while Ms Machado said he "deserves it". Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Institute issued a statement clarifying that it was not possible for the prize to...

Think Tank

Vina Nadjibulla

What Carney’s China Trip Really Signalled

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China will stand as one of the most consequential moments in Canada’s foreign policy. It not only reframed Canada’s relationship with China but also signalled a fundamentally new approach to how Ottawa intends to navigate a more fragmented, contested and uncertain world. On the bilateral front, the trip produced three tangible outcomes: a new...

Stuart Trew

Carney’s China reset and the CUSMA review

Prime Minister Carney can be pleased with the results of his first official visit to China. Through a temporary trade truce, and a list of political, economic and cultural MOUs, the federal government has effectively reset relations with China to where they were in 2016, before the arrest of Meng Wanzhou at the request of the first Trump administration. The...

Vina Nadjibulla

Five Things to Watch During Prime Minister Carney’s High-Stakes Visit to China

Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Beijing from January 13 to 17, marking the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to China since 2017. The trip comes amid mounting economic and political pressure from the Trump administration and reflects the Carney government’s stated objective to diversify Canada’s economic partnerships and double non-U.S. trade over the next decade. At...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Dean Beeby

Library and Archives waives access-to-info fee

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) gets a lot of flak for its processing of Access to Information Act (ATIA) requests, especially for its long delays to respond. But lately they’ve been doing a few things right.

Steven Staples

New submarines may have "unCanadian" weapons

A thorough media scan reveals practically no discussion about this important escalation, which would put Canada among only a few Western navies (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) that operate submarine-launched land-attack weapons.

Alex Cool-Fergus

If you're not watching what's happening in Québec you're losing the plot

You may want to dust off your Bescherelles, Canadian politicos: the battle for the future of Québec is where things are going to happen in 2026. In case you missed it, today the new leader of the Québec Liberal Party, Pablo Rodriguez, announced his resignation. His resignation was precipitated by a terrible, scandalous month for the QLP — one that...

Podcasts

Carney's China Breakthrough and Trump's Greenland Grab

What are the implications of Mark Carney's surprising success in China? Will it make Canada more independent and resilient? Will it provoke the wrath of the Don? Peter, Louise and Jeremy also discuss Trump's Greenland obsession and whether there is light at the end of the tunnel in Iran.

Carney's got a trade deal with China. What's under the hood?

Prime Minister Mark Carney's trade deal with China has sent a jolt through Canada and beyond. In exchange for allowing more Chinese-made electric vehicles to enter the Canadian market, Beijing has agreed to lower duties on some agricultural and seafood products. Catherine Cullen first speaks with Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew about what the deal means for his province; then former...

Re-engaging with China, with Senator Yuen Pau Woo

Peter Mazereeuw speaks with Senator Yuen Pau Woo, a former head of the Asia Pacific Foundation, about Prime Minister Mark Carney's move to rebuild ties with China.