Trade is the 'make or break issue' as world leaders gather in the Canadian Rockies, says expert. Global trade will be a major focus at next week's G7 summit as world leaders gather in Alberta, including U.S. President Donald Trump, who will be making his first appearance at a major international event since returning to the White House in January...
A suspected Indian government agent had Jagmeet Singh under close surveillance, prompting the RCMP to place the New Democratic Party leader in police protection 18 months ago, sources have told Global News. The agent, who is allegedly tied to activities directed by the Indian government, had access to intimate knowledge of Singh’s daily routines, travel and family, according to the...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s G7 summit is designed to find common ground and bridge — if not downplay — differences with a U.S. president viewed by many of the guests as disruptor-in-chief of the world’s economic prospects. With that in mind, as the Star reported last Saturday, organizers of the Kananaskis meeting are not working to produce a joint communiqué...
Two former Canadian prime ministers and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are among the notable names set to speak at a conference today ahead of next week's G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis. The conference is hosted by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy and its G7 research group and will feature a series of panels about past summits and...
More than two-in-five Canadians are concerned about possible meddling from the United States if Alberta ultimately holds a referendum on sovereignty, a new Research Co. poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, 45% of Canadians say it is “very likely” or “moderately likely” that the United States will take steps to annex Alberta as an...
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame land- and cell-lines hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,120 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between June 1st and 3rd, 2025 as part of an omnibus survey. The margin of error for this survey is ±2.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
In the 20th century, when countries waged internal battles over their future, the intellectual stature of proponents and opponents was rarely in doubt. Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque were featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in February 1978. Jean Chrétien and Jacques Parizeau would have probably enjoyed the same treatment in October 1995, had the United States not been...
One Canadian was on the London-bound Air India flight that crashed with more than 240 people on board shortly after takeoff, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday. The plane crashed Thursday in a residential area of India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad, a city of more than five million people.
Mark Carney’s ability to balance Canada’s economic agenda while promoting its democratic values will be tested at the upcoming G7 summit after he expanded the invitation list to nations implicated in international murders. The prime minister ignored questions from reporters about why he was inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Kananaskis, Alta....
Eby's government speaking out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to fast-tracking energy projects of national significance
At this pivotal moment for our country, Canadians are looking for leadership that is focused, collaborative and ready to meet the moment. And there’s no clearer test of that leadership than the housing crisis. Families across this country are struggling with rising rents, impossible mortgages and an uncertain future. But we have a chance to turn things around. To build...
The country is literally on fire. So we better get to work building more pipelines, thereby enabling us to pump even more oil out of the ground and have even bigger, hotter, wilder, more out-of-control fires. This seems to be the main takeaway from the new détente reached between Ottawa and the provinces in the name of fighting the threat...
You didn’t really think it would be that easy to get rid of him. No, Trudeau lives on. The spirit of the former Liberal prime minister is alive. The phase out the oilsands prime minister, the I listen to my green guru Steven Guilbeault and can’t see that he is a walking disaster prime minister, the I screwed up so...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent meeting with provincial premiers in Saskatoon demonstrated a shared desire to collaborate on projects that will benefit Canadians facing an unpredictable trade war with the United States. An adjacent and equally important issue calling for pan-Canadian co-operation is the growing housing, homelessness and affordability crisis. All of these existential problems were discussed throughout the spring...
The other day I noticed a CTV story about a poll, done by another polling firm, asking about Canada’s participation in the “Golden Dome” security arrangement being talked about by President Donald Trump. The firm in question does a lot of good work and so my point here is really only about this one question, and the risks of it...
How have Conservatives fared since making the big swerve rightward in the early 1990s? We recall that under Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative banner they won majority governments in 1984 and 1988. Then along came the dividers, the ideologues of the Reform Party, who grabbed 52 seats in the 1993 election and then proceeded to swallow the old Tories whole.
The fortunes of the Conservative Party and its leader Pierre Poilievre in Canada’s April 2025 election seemed to have shifted dramatically after United States President Donald Trump called for Canada to become the 51st state. Political pundits regarded Mark Carney and the Liberal Party’s victory — along with the failure of Poilievre to retain his own seat — as a...
In the garden of the United Nations headquarters in New York stands a sculpture depicting a man hammering a sword into a plowshare. It is the work of Soviet-era monumentalist Evgeny Vuchetich, creator of The Motherland Calls, the war memorial in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), site of the single deadliest battle in the history of war, and grave of more than...
Domestically, the biggest current threat to Mark Carney’s success is tripping over his own heels while trying to keep a blistering pace towards tangible accomplishments. Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be throwing the practice of conventional political expectation management right out the window, and is shooting for the stars with everything he does. While this may be refreshing, it’s...
Five years ago, on May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in the United States and set off international protests against anti-Black racism and police violence. This was supposed to be a turning point in the fight against racism. Institutional leaders across Canada pledged to address anti-Black racism. It began with statements of solidarity that morphed into task forces...
Canada’s premiers and prime minister want the world to know that they are ready to build: pipelines, a revitalized military, new high-speed transit, an energy corridor. But if Canada is to build a truly national economy and to effectively respond to the Trump administration’s economic instability and isolation, it needs a larger, more skilled, and more adaptive workforce.
Elections are messy, emotional, and complex, and the 2025 Canadian federal election was no exception. In the weeks since the results came in, I’ve consumed a lot of commentary, analysis, and hot takes from journalists, pundits, campaign operatives, and academics. Some of it matches what I saw in the data. But a lot of it doesn’t.
The auditor general’s report is a reminder that they're part of the solution to air security, but Canada also needs a more practical option
Two Senate bills would ban alcohol advertising and require warning labels on bottles and cans. But the parallel with tobacco is misguided
Mark Carney’s bold new plan to increase Canada’s defence spending comes with two price tags. The prime minister’s announcement was clear on one of them: more than $9 billion will be injected into military spending this year alone, and increases in the years after. The other price — “sacrifice” — got a mention from Carney, but little more by way...
Damn the torpedoes! Canada’s Liberal government is taking aim at defence — and it’s about time. This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will hit the NATO benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP on defence spending this year, instead of waiting for 2032, deploying an additional $9 billion in 2025-2026. Ever the banker, he’s also deploying some...
THE COUNTRY SITS on the edge of its seat, obsessed with the question: Wither Pierre Poilievre?
Protests during the upcoming G7 leaders summit in Kananaskis, Alta., may be starkly different than demonstrations happening this week against immigration crackdowns in the United States. A University of Toronto research group that has been monitoring the meetings of world leaders since 1998 says its analysis shows Canadian protests are more peaceful and smaller. But similar to the recent demonstrations...
The cabinet minister leading Prime Minister Mark Carney’s border security push said Tuesday he is recusing himself from files related to a Sri Lankan terrorist group and its Canadian front organization. In a statement sent to Global News on Tuesday, the office of Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said he had stepped back from “any matter related to the Liberation...
Canada has invited the United Arab Emirates to attend the G7 summit in Alberta, The Canadian Press has learned. While UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan could end up attending the summit, which starts Sunday in Kananaskis, Abu Dhabi has not said whether it has accepted the invitation.
Viewed from a certain angle, it could be read as good news that only 30 per cent of Albertans believe their province would be better off on its own, a share that has grown only slightly over the last five years. In a hypothetical referendum, just 28 per cent said they would vote to secede. But among those who believe...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is tapping Michael Sabia, a veteran of the public and private sector, to head up the Privy Council Office in Ottawa. Sabia's tenure as clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to cabinet will begin July 7, replacing John Hannaford who is retiring.
When United States President Donald Trump heads north of the border next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney will face a tough task getting to a consensus at the G7 summit with the unpredictable commander-in-chief. The last time Canada hosted the Group of Seven in 2018 in Charlevoix, Que., personal turmoil between then-prime minister Justin Trudeau and Trump overshadowed the summit.
The Senate has agreed to hold full hearings to study two key pieces of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s agenda, including bills proposing a middle-class tax cut and to fast-track major projects, according to two Senate sources. Mr. Carney has suggested he wants to have bills C-4 and C-5 passed by Canada Day. Both bills are at second reading in the...
Multiple sources caution more work to be done before a deal is reached. In a sign that Canada and the U.S. are making progress toward some sort of trade agreement, CBC News and Radio-Canada have learned about the existence of a working document outlining details of a potential deal. According to three sources with direct knowledge of the situation, the...
The regional chief for British Columbia said Wednesday that governments should not speed up major projects at the expense of First Nations rights, warning that the projects will be slowed down by court challenges if First Nations are not consulted from the start. "We're asking the government to follow your own laws," Terry Teegee said Wednesday, citing the United Nations...
The NDP suffered an "unmitigated disaster" in the last election because it lost touch with its grassroots and became too "leader-focused," former MP Charlie Angus said Wednesday. The longtime NDP stalwart said he toured the country during the election and spoke with many rank-and-file members. He said the party now needs to do a lot of soul-searching to reconnect with...
The U.S. and Canada have intensified talks for an economic and security deal in recent weeks, with a framework for such an arrangement trading hands between the two parties, CTV News can confirm. Sources who spoke to CTV News on the condition of anonymity all universally cautioned the finalizing of such a deal requires sign-off directly from U.S. President Donald...
Federal and provincial Conservatives are winning over more visible minority voters in the GTA, a new study has found. According to researchers at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, visible minorities in the GTA, who make up more than half of the population, are increasingly backing Conservative candidates in federal and provincial elections. The study, out Wednesday, considers anyone...
The parliamentary budget officer says Ottawa's plan to slash the sales tax on housing would save an eligible first-time homebuyer an average of roughly $27,000 off the price of a newly built home. The federal government's fiscal watchdog predicts in a new analysis that a little over 71,000 new builds will quality for GST relief over the lifetime of the program.
B.C. Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal said he met with Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday morning to push back against Carney's decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in Alberta next week. In an interview with The Canadian Press before that meeting took place, Dhaliwal said he spoke with hundreds of people who don't want Modi...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Canadian population has grown out of control and is calling on the Liberal government to further reduce immigration. “We want severe limits on population growth to reverse the damage the Liberals did to our system,” Poilievre said during a press conference Tuesday in the foyer of the House of Commons
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Ottawa between June 14 and 15 ahead of the G7 summit in Alberta next week. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the visit this morning. An itinerary for the visit has not been released yet.
'When conservatives lose their principles, Ontario loses its way,' says the group's anonymous website. There's a mysterious move afoot to push Premier Doug Ford's Ontario PC government to adopt more fiscally conservative policies. Calling itself "Project Ontario," the initiative launched quietly on the weekend with a one-page website and an unsigned manifesto posted by The Hub, an online news and...
Prime Minister Mark Carney believes artificial intelligence is key to unlocking Canada’s economic potential. He carved out a specific ministry for the file, installing former broadcaster Evan Solomon as the country’s first-ever minister of AI.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to float Canada’s defence spending over its current two per cent of GDP NATO target with the help of the country’s Coast Guard may hit rough waters as it navigates between a resistant public service and service members opposed to becoming what they derisively view as a militarized “junior navy,” defence analysts say...
The federal government is moving to shore up a historically weak summer job market for students -- even as one economist argues tough employment prospects for young people suggest broader softness in the job market. Statistics Canada shone a light on the difficult employment prospects for students heading back to school this fall in its May jobs report last Friday
Taxpayer-funded ‘familiarization tour’ included stops at Calgary Stampede, Lake Louise. The initiative was launched by Alberta Sen. Scott Tannas. In May 2024, he sent a message to his colleagues in the upper chamber inviting them on what he called a "familiarization tour" of his province. The idea was simple, he explained. Many senators were unfamiliar with his part of the...
A new poll suggests that nearly half of Canadians believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza almost two years after the current conflict began. In a survey conducted last weekend, the polling firm Leger asked Canadians and Americans a series of questions about the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Leger surveyed 1,511 Canadians and 1,011 Americans between June 6 and...
It's taken a long time, but it looks like Canada is finally going to commit two percent of its GDP to defence spending. That's what NATO has called for for years, but Canada has dodged and weaved on the commitment and failed to meet the goal. Yesterday, Prime Minister Carney said the time is now and Canada will deliver. Is...
Manitoba Sen. Mary Jane McCallum is 2nd to join caucus this month. Sen. Mary Jane McCallum of Manitoba is now part of the Conservatives' Senate caucus — making her the second senator appointed by former prime minister Justin Trudeau to join the party this month. McCallum, who is Cree and a member of the Barren Lands First Nation, said she...
British Columbia's transport minister has raised concerns with BC Ferries about its decision to have a Chinese shipyard build four new ferries for its passenger fleet, amid an ongoing trade conflict between Canada and China. The winning bidder on the contract announced Tuesday is Chinese state-owned China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards. Mike Farnworth said in a statement he was worried...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border, in an escalation of the military's enforcement role, authorities said Wednesday
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas "emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.''
Elon Musk stepped back from his explosive feud with U.S. President Donald Trump, writing on X that he regrets some of his posts about his onetime ally and that they went "too far."
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is "pulling a military dragnet" across Los Angeles during a brief public address on Tuesday.
Police say crash happened in a civilian area, Air India says at least 1 Canadian, 53 U.K. citizens aboard. Air India says its London-bound flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport Thursday included people from India, Britain, Portugal and Canada. The airline said the flight was carrying 242 passengers and crew overall. Indian officials had previously said 244 were on board.
BERLIN (AP) -- Veteran rock star Bruce Springsteen, a high-profile critic of President Donald Trump, slammed the U.S. administration as "corrupt, incompetent and treasonous" during a concert Wednesday in Berlin.
WASHINGTON -- The share of Canadians who view the United States favourably has dropped 20 percentage points since last year.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police swiftly enforced a downtown curfew Tuesday night, making arrests moments after it took effect, while deploying officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
Several people were killed at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they deployed to the school after shots were heard there. The Interior Ministry said there were several fatalities but did not specify how many. There was also no immediate information on any injuries or on the status of the perpetrator.
Last month’s India-Pakistan clash was an unsettling reminder of the volatile relationship between the two nuclear-armed adversaries. New Delhi’s ties with Islamabad had been relatively calm over the four years prior, following the inking in February 2021 of a new truce along the Line of Control (LoC), the disputed border that bisects India- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The truce reduced cross-border...
Liberalizing trade within Canada has long been a challenge. Geographic constraints, infrastructure gaps, differences in language and culture, and easy access to a large market to the south have all dampened the volume of internal trade. Concerns over limited interprovincial trade have surfaced repeatedly throughout Canadian history, from early infrastructure challenges at Confederation aimed at bridging these divides to issues...
In 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada made a historic decision that transformed the country’s commercial East Coast fishing industry. At the time, First Nations had been locked out of the regional economy for several centuries, despite traditionally engaging in fishing for subsistence and for trade.
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Looking over media releases from the Prime Minister’s office, you will find in recent days Mark Carney has spoken to the Premier of China Li Qiang, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, and President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto. But one world leader’s name is conspicuously absent from the list: U.S. President Donald Trump.
Elon Musk has always taken a curious pride in not spending big on advertising. Tesla’s meteoric rise was, in his telling, proof that a superior product—and a CEO with 220 million followers—renders paid media optional.
Canada’s information commissioner, Caroline Maynard, wields legal authority to order federal departments to release information they’ve withheld from requesters who are seeking it under the Access to Information Act. Well, sort of.
On this episode of WONK, Canada's 20th prime minister talks to Amanda Lang about the benefits of Team Canada, Donald Trump and unhappy Albertans Jean Chrétien, Canada’s oldest living prime minister, isn’t taking Western separatism lying down. Having seen Canada through the threat of Quebec separation, his Clarity Act of 2000 could find new currency today. Chrétien — now 91...
Canada's relationship with the U.S. may go back a long way, but our relationship with the United Kingdom goes back even further. And, with Canada-U.S. relations being as contentious as they now are, can or should Britain fill the role America used to play and become our number one ally once again? Host Steve Paikin asks: Mel Cappe, Canada's Former...
For years now Canada's been badgered to pony up, and spend more money on the military. Those calls have come from our actual military itself, our NATO allies, and more recently the U.S. President. Well it looks like Mark Carney is going to pull out the credit card, and commit to spending an extra $9.3-billion on the armed forces by...
Today's Big Story is about the economy and the potential impact to Canada from Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill". The bill could potentially have implications for Canadian investors and pension plans. Host Mike Eppel breaks down what it all means with guest Stephen Johnston, Director of Asset Management for Omnigence. We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as...
