U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States is working on a deal to buy potash from Belarus in a bid to reduce dependence on Canadian fertilizer. In a social media post Monday morning, Trump said prices would be "substantially less" than American buyers pay to Canadian exporters.
The federal Conservative party is being criticized over its decision to appoint a candidate for an upcoming byelection, instead of holding a nomination contest. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre surprised many when he announced at a rally on Sunday that Brantford Mayor Kevin Davis will be the party's candidate in Brantford-Brant South.
Mexico is planning to buy more goods from the United States and reduce imports from other nations as part of the review of the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. "The United States is asking for its so-called trade deficit to be reduced," Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.
But the PMO says Mark Carney keeps in 'close and regular contact' with MPs, and holds caucus coffee chats and meals with MPs while travelling in their regions. Another Liberal MP says those frustrated by the lack of direct access to the PM want to 'audition' for a promotion to cabinet. Prime Minister Mark Carney is enjoying the peak of...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s attempt to bring Canada closer to Europe and strengthen ties with countries around the world will continue this week in U.S. President Donald Trump’s hometown, as he attends the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City. Senior government officials who briefed reporters ahead of the trip said Carney will meet...
The latest Liaison Strategies Weekly Federal Tracker shows the Liberals leading the Conservatives by 14 points among decided and leaning voters, while the NDP has edged up to 15%. The Liberals are at 45%, up one point from last week, followed by the Conservatives at 31%, down one, and the NDP at 15%, up one. The Bloc Québécois is at...
Albertans voting in the fall referendum will be asked to weigh in on a sweeping collection of policy questions, from immigration and access to social programs to the balance of power between Edmonton and Ottawa. On their faces, several of the proposals command majority support. But new research suggests the answers Albertans give may depend considerably on exactly what they...
MARK CARNEY HAS achieved something close to rock-star status for being one of the only world leaders to stand up to United States president Donald Trump. Breaking off trade talks with the US carries enormous risks, but according to Angus Reid, 76 percent of Canadians back the prime minister’s decision. “They asked too much,” he explained, with characteristic crispness, “and...
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone to Prince William on Monday, a spokesperson for his office said. While the Prime Minister's Office shared no details of what was discussed, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said the heir to the throne and Canada's future head of state "discussed the enduring strength of the U.K.-Canada relationship" with Carney.
The caucus of British Columbia's governing NDP has met to discuss a potential early election after the resignation of Opposition B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Findlay quit Sunday, saying it was the right move for the party and province, and the Conservative board of directors appointed MLA Lorne Doerkson as interim leader hours later. But the Conservative constitution prohibits an...
There is a lot that United States President Donald Trump doesn’t understand. Canada is close to the top of the list. Trump is accustomed to wielding the presidency as the ultimate big stick. He gets his way by threatening, not persuading or charming, as past U.S. leaders have done. Can anyone picture Jimmy Carter threatening to annex the Great White...
Danielle Smith clearly loves America. In addition to her numerous diplomatic visits and personal holidays there, she has also used the country as a model for her own political brand, one that focuses far more on things like individual freedom and liberty than more traditionally Canadian values like community and shared interests. She has deliberately imported their most noxious culture...
Canada and Ukraine now have a drone deal. As announced recently by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Alberta, Canada and Ukraine will jointly produce unmanned weapons systems. Although many details of the plan have not yet been released, the basic idea seems to be that Canada will produce millions of drones a year domestically, using...
There's a level of irony in the deep admiration so many Alberta separatists harbour for our neighbour to the south. After all, there is no legal process for an American state to separate from the U.S. and, thus, such a movement could not exist there. Of course, the United States underwent a far messier and bloodier process before concluding that...
Over the summer of 2026, the annual escape from the daily battleground of question period overwhelmingly benefited Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney used his summer vacation from the House of Commons to burnish his economic credibility with Canadians through infrastructure announcements, boost his global currency by standing up to Donald Trump on trade, and renew his parliamentary majority via three...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is back from Europe and now Europe is coming closer to him. Over 48 hours on Sunday and Monday, he’ll meet with two European allies, two leaders who, like Mr. Carney, see strategic autonomy as the key goal of their foreign policy. If he wanted allies to help knit together a trans-Atlantic geopolitical alliance, he could...
Reaching a deal with southern neighbours will provide long-term certainty for Canadian economy
There are, as Lenin apparently did not say, decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. This was one of those weeks: a remarkable series of policy and diplomatic moves that give unmistakable form to what until lately had been mostly rhetorical flourish. The Carney doctrine remains only partly visible, and may only be partly developed, but there’s no...
By suggesting that Canada could eventually become the first associate member of the European Union (EU), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed in her own way how much Europe wants closer, more ambitious, and more intense cooperation with Canada. At the same time, she stirred up concerns on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the early days of the world’s stupidest trade war, outsiders seemed impressed, amused and somehow surprised when Canada pushed back by yanking American booze from our stores, booing The Star-Spangled Banner and dishing out retaliatory tariffs. The same punchline kept surfacing online and among late-night TV hosts: “Do you know how obnoxious you have to be to tick off...
The Canadian prime minister is once again on the road, this time taking in some footie alongside new U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham and, more importantly, playing footsie with the European Union in the form of a possible “associate membership.” Now, I’m here from the future to warn you that nothing will happen very quickly, if at all, with this...
Trust U.S. President Donald Trump to prove Mark Carney’s point even before Carney made it. The prime minister hadn’t yet laid out his vision of greater co-operation with Europe to the European Parliament and Trump was already out trashing the idea as “laughable” and threatening yet more tariffs if he didn’t like the outcome. A year ago I expect that...
The Conservative party is a “fractured mess,” according to one caucus member who volunteered the opinion to a CTV reporter Wednesday. Article content Few people (with the possible exception of leader Pierre Poilievre) will have been more distressed by the sense of incipient rebellion than Mark Carney’s political advisers.
Even before Mark Carney had uttered a word at the European Parliament, Donald Trump was proving the cold truth in the speech — that the president is a threat to sovereignty, not just trade. Trump said on the eve of the speech that he would decide what to make of Canada and Europe’s strengthened alliance, and mete punishment accordingly.
Prime Minister Mark Carney emphasized that a proposed new alliance with Europe is not an attempt to create a new bloc to rival the great powers. Yet it was a bit of a stretch to assert, as he did in a press conference in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, that it wasn’t a reaction to others. The speech he had made...
It’s a flight plan Prime Minister Mark Carney may come to wish he’d never filed. This week, Carney announced Canada would seek private investors for the country’s four largest airports — a measure that was floated in last fall’s budget, but faced no public consultations and was not part of the Liberals’ election platform.
Mark Carney succeeded Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister. But it feels more spiritually accurate to say that he succeeded C.D. Howe, who transformed Canada’s industry and infrastructure before, during and after the Second World War, much of it with foreign money. Almost 70 years after Howe’s death, Mr. Carney is seeking to launch a new industrial and infrastructure revolution. Howe...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is undeniably a political rockstar, both at home and abroad. He’s been running the country like an economic guru all summer long, making deals left and right, hosting our first Canada Investment Summit, and pursuing new partnerships around the globe. In his latest plurilateral tour de force, this week’s next-level Canada-EU relationship reveal, Carney as Canada...
Mark Carney’s latest Euro trip is something of a love-in — a cheery celebration among pals looking for new ways to strengthen their friendship. But the prime minister’s charm offensive at the European Parliament in Strasbourg should be merely the opening move in a larger mission. Carney needs to be a bringer of bad tidings to the Continent: We were...
I confess to a certain skepticism about the Canada Investment Summit, the two-day confab of company executives, institutional investors and politicians which has just wrapped up in Toronto. Why such a conference was needed, or what it would accomplish, has never been entirely clear, despite all the hype about “catalyzing” a trillion dollars in investment. To imagine a mere conference...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, along with other politicians and police forces across Canada, have condemned antisemitic violence following a shooting that took place outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ont., on Sunday night.
CAE Inc. says it has secured a $300-million contract to continue training U.S. air force crews, even as U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to ban Canadian companies from government procurement. The Montreal-based flight simulator maker says the deal granted to its American defence division extends CAE's role as the main contractor schooling U.S. aircrews on the C-130 Hercules military...
Members of Parliament returned from their summer break Monday with trade tensions hanging over the country, a new but undefined alliance with Europe on the horizon, and a Liberal government ready to push an aggressive agenda to get major new infrastructure approved. Buoyed by strong polling numbers and a trio of recent byelection wins that saw him increase his majority...
Two people are critically injured, including a police officer, after a shooting outside a Belleville, Ont., synagogue Sunday night. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said a Belleville police officer was near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in the area of Victoria and Bleecker avenues at approximately 7 p.m. when there was an “exchange of gunfire” with a man who was...
The president of the European Union's investment bank says "the time is ripe" to deepen its co-operation with Canada by exploring how to finance Canadian projects — comments that come as Prime Minister Mark Carney pushes for more EU ties.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s effort to charm a cadre of the world’s largest investors at a VIP-only summit in Toronto last week is paying quick dividends for Canadian investments. Article content With a stock market trading at a discount to its U.S. rival, an improving growth outlook and Carney’s promises of tax cuts, fiscal policy certainty and regulatory rollbacks, multiple...
Earlier this month, with MPs still on summer break, a group of Canadians with a deep distrust of the federal government descended on a parliamentary committee room to tell politicians they felt lied to. The men and women from across the country came to Conservative MP Dean Allison’s event about COVID-19 vaccines, the injuries and deaths they believe were caused...
Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned as the leader of British Columbia's Conservatives on Sunday, bringing to a close her brief tenure marked by infighting, firings, expulsions from the party caucus and a string of defections by sitting legislators. Findlay said she would remain the party's candidate in the Sept. 26 byelection in Abbotsford-Mission as she aims to secure a seat on the...
Pierre Poilievre says Canada will "never be the 28th state of the European Union" as Prime Minister Mark Carney pursues deeper ties with Europe amid a trade war with the United States. Poilievre made the comments at a rally in Brantford, Ont., on Sunday, days after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she wants Canada to become the...
Although plenty is going on as Parliament resumes, the federal government has a legislative agenda with fewer returning items than it often does coming into the fall sitting.
Members of Parliament return from their summer break Monday, with the economy and trade partnerships in centre-focus after the trade war with the United States dramatically escalated over the summer months. Prime Minister Mark Carney says his Liberal government will introduce some of the most consequential legislation in decades this sitting. Government House leader Steven MacKinnon has promised "significant" economic...
British Columbia's political landscape continues to shift, with Kerry-Lynne Findlay stepping down as the leader of B-C's Conservatives Sunday, and the party's board of directors appointing MLA Lorne Doerkson as interim leader hours later. Findlay's resignation and Doerkson's appointment come amid speculation that New Democratic Premier David Eby may call an early election. Findlay announced her move fewer than four...
Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned as the leader of British Columbia's Conservatives on Sunday after weeks of upheaval in the official Opposition caucus, though she said she would remain the party's candidate in an upcoming byelection. A statement from Findlay said stepping down was not an easy decision, but she believed it was "the right one for our movement and our province."...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his focus on building international relationships, including with Norway, is part of the answer to renewed threats from Russia. During a news conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Ottawa, both leaders were asked about warnings from the Polish prime minister that Russia may be planning attacks on European countries that support Ukraine...
The federal government plans to kick off Monday’s return of parliamentary sittings with the introduction of major legislation aimed at accelerating project approvals and updating Canada’s labour laws. Three federal ministers are scheduled to speak at a news conference Monday afternoon: Government House Leader and Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon; Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron have pledged to work together in the areas of space infrastructure, business and economic growth. Speaking to reporters in the French territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon on Sunday, Carney said he and Macron will task their space agencies and defence ministries to develop and share common infrastructure, including space launch systems and ground-based...
Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is warning against a potential "Trojan horse" scenario that could arise from Prime Minister Mark Carney's promised rapprochement with Europe. "There will be something included as part of a package of measures that could prove useful, but it must not be a Trojan horse hiding the export of gas and oil," Blanchet told reporters north...
With just a month to go until Alberta’s sovereignty referendum, federalist organizers charge that many of the province’s Conservative members of Parliament have been missing in action in the fight to keep Alberta in Canada. Last month, the Star emailed Alberta MPs to ask how they plan to vote in the Oct. 19 referendum, which will ask whether the provincial...
Parliamentarians are taking a hard look at Canada's overseas intelligence gathering capabilities as debate simmers over the need for a new foreign spy agency. The MPs and senators who make up the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians are examining the effectiveness of Canada's foreign intelligence collection. The secretariat of the highly secretive committee would not elaborate on the...
Bloc Quebecois MPs will gather near Ottawa to prepare for the return of Parliament, with the impact of the Canada-U.S. trade dispute expected to loom large over their discussions. The caucus will meet in Cantley, Que., in the Outaouais region, in Quebec, less than 20 kilometres from Parliament Hill, before MPs return to the House of Commons on Monday. Throughout...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to the French territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today for a mostly symbolic meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. The leaders are expected to take part in a working lunch before attending a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial for the volunteers of Free France. Macron was scheduled to be on the islands, which sit about 2...
Members of Parliament are making their way back to Ottawa for the fall sitting of the House of Commons that gets underway on Monday. It's set to be a busy season with the release of the federal budget, debate on legislation and looming byelections. Here are five things to watch for:
Government will have to balance new legislative priorities with bills leftover from spring. MPs are heading back to Parliament Hill on Monday to pick up where they left off in June. While the break is usually a quiet time in the political world, this past summer seemed anything but. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs in July (including over...
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon won’t guarantee the cost to fly won’t go up for travellers if the federal government follows through on its plan to privatize Canada’s four largest airports but does promise an improved experience and partial regulation. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the federal government is seeking private investment to run Canada’s four major airports: Toronto-Pearson...
As the Canada-United States trade war becomes more hostile, and Ottawa promises to support affected Canadian workers with enhanced Employment Insurance and Work-Sharing programs, Employment and Social Development Canada is planning fewer staff to process and pay EI and other benefits. “The frontline workers [at the department] want to provide a much higher quality of service to workers losing their...
The federal government’s procurement process for 24 Sussex Dr. creates a risk of delays and cost overruns due to a lack of a defined budget and timelines before the project starts, critics say, as the government extends the deadline for request for qualifications for firms competing to build and renovate the prime minister’s official residence. On June 26, Prime Minister...
First of 22 associations needed to force vote on premier's party leadership. A UCP riding association in southern Alberta has formally urged a party vote to review Premier Danielle Smith’s leadership, in the latest sign of simmering frustrations surrounding the Oct. 19 referendum on the province’s future within Canada. The Highwood UCP association cannot trigger a leadership review on its...
Canadians may welcome the prospect of closer ties with the European Union, but pollster Nik Nanos says the issue could become a political minefield for Prime Minister Mark Carney. On Wednesday, the EU made a historic overture to Canada, inviting the country to explore possible associate membership in the world’s largest trading bloc. The proposal would not involve full membership...
National Defence Minister David McGuinty says the United States' deal to boost its military presence in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish control is "encouraging." U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denmark after months of threatening to take the island by force from the NATO ally.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to a spokesperson for the man's attorney.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they've notified President Donald Trump's administration that they're filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access. Reporters from the three major news organizations were blocked from the White House on Saturday, a day after Trump said he was barring them because of reporting he found to be "fake news."
As Kamala Harris mulls whether to run for president again, she's throwing herself into the midterms by campaigning with fellow Democrats, starting with a Tuesday trip to Michigan on behalf of Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before taking over the sprawling Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried the lack of progress in bringing indictments.
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone to Prince William on Monday, a spokesperson for his office said. While the Prime Minister's Office shared no details of what was discussed, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said the heir to the throne and Canada's future head of state "discussed the enduring strength of the U.K.-Canada relationship" with Carney.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron are holding a symbolic meeting on an archipelago 20 kilometres off the southern coast of Newfoundland on Sunday, in what both countries say is a show of unity and mutual respect. The two leaders will hold a working lunch and attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a French territory which just...
The Carney government has opted against joining Germany, France and others in condemning Turkey's crackdown on LGBTQ+ organizations as it negotiates a possible trade deal with Ankara. Turkish authorities targeted multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals this past week, detaining dozens of activists, breaking into association offices and raiding popular hangouts. Authorities have stopped protests against the raids and banned access...
Jonathan Wilkinson says Canada 'would be very selective' about areas for co-operation. As Prime Minister Mark Carney presses toward creating a "unique alliance" with the European Union, Canada's ambassador is ruling out paying directly into the 27-nation bloc's budget. "We would be very selective," Canada's incoming EU ambassador Jonathan Wilkinson said in an interview with CBC's The House airing Saturday...
President Donald Trump said Friday that he was barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage and "fake news," and threatened that more such media bans could be coming -- the latest salvo in the president's increasingly aggressive response to media coverage he finds unfavorable. Like many of Trump's other confrontations...
When Xi Jinping’s plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews this week, Donald Trump intends to be there to meet it. Protocol dictates that American presidents do not usually greet foreign leaders at the airport; they receive them at the White House. The last exception occurred when President Barack Obama met Pope Francis at Andrews in 2015. The unusual gesture...
Section 7 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the right to “life, liberty and security of the person,” which is not to be deprived unless doing so is consistent with “the principles of fundamental justice.” This simple provision has spawned an elaborate body of legal rules that now shapes policymaking across Canada. Topics as charged as prostitution (Canada...
The United States–Canada relationship is being directly affected by a global reordering that is impacting all aspects of international relations. The prevailing Canadian view was that the centerpiece of that relationship was its trade agreements — first the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), then the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) — which had provided prosperity to Canada for several decades...
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The RCMP commissioner has warned the Carney government that proposed reductions in security measures for the modernization of the official residence at 24 Sussex Drive will “result in an increased overall security risk,” says an internal document. The RCMP has been meeting with senior government officials since 2025 to discuss trimming the estimated bill for hardening the property against attacks...
At Carney’s invitation, the world’s biggest institutional investors are arriving in Toronto to look over opportunities to invest in Canada — opportunities that may not yet be ripe for their taste. About 300 chief executives and senior managers gather Monday evening and Tuesday at the Four Seasons in Toronto. Between them they manage $120 trillion in assets, fifty times the...
Courage, his mother told him. And his mother was right. We will need to repeat that to ourselves — a hazy memory of a Bertolt Brecht play — to face President Trump’s aggression. There will be lulls, perhaps a truce. Do not dream of a lasting peace. The American king’s escalating demands would have made Canada his vassal. Mark Carney...
There’s no such thing as “associate membership” in the European Union and nobody knows what it means, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s proposal for it has proven to be a dazzling distraction as he flounders in a trade war with the U.S. Brian talks this week with Anand Menon, an EU studies specialist based in England, and Carlo Dade, international...
Parliament returns today from summer recess, amid ongoing economic uncertainty and an unresolved trade war with the U.S. Prime Minister Mark Carney told MPs on Friday that this will be "a crucial session of the House of Commons" and vowed to introduce "some of the most consequential legislation not just of this government, but in decades."
Canada and the EU are working toward a more integrated partnership. As the relationship with the U.S. becomes increasingly less reliable, Canadians seem to be overwhelmingly in favour of the idea of getting closer to Europe. But what could this partnership actually entail – and how much more would Canada be getting than it has now?
Trillions(!) of dollars came to Toronto last week—or at least the people who manage it did. Some 300 executives managing $120 trillion(!) in assets gathered for the federal government’s “inaugural” investment summit, where Canada sought to reintroduce itself to global capital and make the case that it can be that trusted supplier everyone is seeking.
