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The prime minister’s comments about rebuilding an international order “out of Europe” hints at a bold insight and potential plan from a man who is emerging as an architect of the global reordering. No sooner were the words out of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mouth than one French news magazine dubbed them “a breath of fresh air from Canada.” “It...
Advocates will be seeking a $500-billion credit facility to “bankroll the province” if an independence referendum succeeds, The Financial Times reports. United States government officials have held talks on three separate occasions with organizers of an Alberta separatist movement, according to reports. The information, which was published in the Edmonton Journal and the Financial Times, comes at a time of...
It’s a tough conclusion that Bob Rae draws from a lifetime in politics, one he began as as a New Democrat in Ottawa and at Queen’s Park and recently ended as Canada’s newest former ambassador to the United Nations. Can the country’s relationship with the United States be repaired by a change of heart, a change of tariff policy or...
“Vladimir Putin is an enemy of the United States. He lives, eats and breathes to dismantle American power in the world,” Harper said Monday. There’s no reason to think that Donald Trump listens to former prime minister Stephen Harper. But if he did, the U.S. president would hear the four favourite words of former world leaders: “I told you so.”...
The Pope prays about it. Companies around the world are betting on it. And the occupant of a newly created federal ministry with few precedents in the world has been tasked with harnessing it.
Whatever he is doing — whether it be on impulse or a game of “5D chess” — U.S. President Donald Trump’s actions appear to be part of a plan to keep Canada off balance and under America’s thumb. There was once an American president who loved tariffs, sought to negotiate the lay of the Canada-U.S. border and had a beef...
A surprising thing happened in the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the war between Israel and Hamas. The political fortunes of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a man accused domestically of corruption and internationally of war crimes, have turned from pitiful to promising.