Carney said the invitation jarred with Canadians at a time Trump was challenging Canada's sovereignty and suggesting it should become the 51st state of the US. Canada was “not impressed” by the King’s invitation to Donald Trump for an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, the country’s prime minister has said. Freshly elected leader Mark Carney said February’s invitation...
Former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says it's "impossible not to feel disrespected" after being dropped from cabinet. In a series of social media posts Tuesday, the member of Parliament for Beaches–East York said he ran in the recent election for the opportunity to make "an even bigger difference around the cabinet table and to help fix the housing crisis."
Governments often muddle through issues, but Mark Carney’s appointment of a Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation is that rare case where the plan fully fits the moment. Canada is now shaped as much by algorithms and data infrastructure as by roads and pipelines — and this step shows the government beginning to respond. So, what does it mean...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has not had any conversations with anyone from the other federal parties about crossing the floor in order to help the Liberals form a majority government, a metric the party is now just two seats shy of. In an excusive interview with CTV News’ Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos, his first broadcast interview since...
Ottawa needs a 'calm, thoughtful' approach that recognizes Alberta's contributions to Canada without giving the premier a reason to keep picking fights, says NDP MP Heather McPherson. Politicians in Ottawa can’t fight fiery rhetoric with more of the same if they want to lower the heat on separatist talk in Alberta, says newly elected Liberal Corey Hogan.
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a new cabinet this week, but some of the key challenges for he and his ministers (and secretaries) are hardly unfamiliar. Central among these will be assuaging separation movements in the Prairies by setting the agenda for resource development and environmental management. These priorities come to a head in perhaps no more obvious way than...
– A new Liaison Strategies poll for the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) finds the Ontario PCs leading the Ontario Liberals, 46% to 36%, while the Ontario NDP find themselves squeezed out at 13% Conducted from May 5-9, 2025, using interactive voice response technology, the Liaison poll surveyed 1,000 Ontario voters. The margin of error for...
A change to Canada's electoral system would have delivered a very different House of Commons this year -- one without the monolithic regional strongholds held by both major federal parties -- according to an analysis for The Canadian Press. One seasoned political observer in Alberta says shattering those party fortresses could help take some of the steam out of efforts...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Rome this weekend to attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. The new pontiff, who was elected in a conclave that ended last Thursday, will be officially installed as the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics at a mass in St. Peter's Square on Sunday. A number of world leaders...
Since U.S. President Donald Trump began threatening Canada with tariffs, I’ve heard from many people and businesses about the intense anxiety they’re feeling. Ontarians are already struggling in the face of an ongoing affordability crisis and are now facing potential layoffs and staring down the face of an impending recession. But instead of uniting people to push back against Trump...
If there was ever a pipeline that was not going to get built, it was the Northern Gateway project to construct an oil conduit near some of the most cherished, pristine forest and marine areas of British Columbia’s north. The possibility of oil spills from the 1,170-kilometre line to carry oilsands bitumen from Alberta to a tanker terminal on the...
As the dust settled on election night, things immediately got off on the wrong foot for the defeated Conservative Party. Older voters had instructed Tory candidates that they wanted to see a “more conciliatory tone,” according to Calgary Centre MP Greg McLean, yet Bowmanville–Oshawa North MP Jamil Jivani weaponized what should have been a perfunctory election-night interview to settle personal...
Standing outside Rideau Hall on Tuesday, Mark Carney said his new cabinet — the first real cabinet of his time as prime minister — was "purpose-built for this hinge moment." Carney has long been fond of thinking of this current moment as a hinge — even before its real depths were clear. The Hinge was the title of the book...
Most cabinet shuffles unfold with a flurry of attention on all the new faces, and Mark Carney’s first ministry after the election has plenty of them. But this was a shuffle with an unusual amount of attention on who and what wasn’t there — big names from Justin Trudeau’s time in office and of course, Trudeau himself.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his new cabinet, and he has tasked his team with changing government. Not “small change,” he insisted, but “big change.” Applying the measuring tape to his new government, however, we can conclude that the freshly-elected prime minister is exaggerating just how radically different his new team really is. And in his medium-sized change cabinet...
Barely two months after he and his cabinet were first sworn in and two weeks after his election, Prime Minister Mark Carney attended the swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall Tuesday during which two dozen new people joined his shuffled, culled and expanded ministry. More than half of them are newly elected MPs, which brings many new faces to the fore...
Change is hard – Prime Minister Mark Carney is finding that out. His second cabinet is a departure from his first cabinet, which in turn was a departure from all of Justin Trudeau‘s cabinets. The new PM went from 37 ministers (including Mr. Trudeau) to 24 ministers (including Mr. Carney), and is now back up to 29 including Mr. Carney...
“You cannot fight a war on a committee of twenty.” That was the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Lloyd George’s blunt assessment in 1916. Faced with a divided and sluggish Cabinet during the First World War, he created a five-member War Cabinet to bypass bottlenecks and focus Britain’s war effort. It worked. And it helped win the war.
He's prioritizing economic development, but not in the West.
With Jagmeet Singh out and the federal NDP’s seat count now so low that the party is begging for official party status, the choice for the party’s next leader could make the difference between death and survival. Canada’s social democratic party needs someone who can recapture the loyalty of blue-collar voters snatched by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in the most recent...
Today, Mark Carney’s new government took office, and Canadians received their first clear look at how the Liberals intend to govern following a tightly contested 2025 election. In my view, it’s clear the cabinet composition reflects the challenging balancing act Carney faces between meeting heightened public expectations, distancing his government from Trudeau’s unpopular legacy, and managing competing domestic and international...
Twelve years ago, on Jan. 23, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron committed to holding a referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union. “That is why I am in favour of a referendum, Cameron explained. I believe in confronting this issue — shaping it, leading the debate. Not simply hoping a difficult situation will go away.”
'If she doesn't come over to our side, well, there's going to be a problem,' says Mitch Sylvestre, leading the charge on Alberta independence and warning Premier Danielle Smith
As Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils Canada’s newest cabinet, many will look for the clear signs of change he promised voters. In the days leading up to the election, a Bay Street friend of mine said it plainly: “Let’s see if Carney can mop up the Liberal party and get it back on track. They don’t deserve my vote. But...
During Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the White House, President Donald Trump once again suggested that Canada should become the 51st American state. Carney responded firmly, using a real estate metaphor: Canada “is not for sale.”
“No crisis, no Mark Carney.” Five simple, unadorned words offered to Radio-Canada during his leadership campaign. Five words that say a lot about how Mark Carney regards himself, our politics, and this moment in time. Five words that also serve as a pretty fair indication of how Canada’s new prime minister views the task of transition—of selecting an office, a...
In Carney’s world, two plus two always equals four. In banking and finance, facts matter. In the navel-gazing nightmare of intuitive Trumpism, two plus two equals whatever the president says it does.
That exchange in Top Gun: Maverick wasn’t just a nod to Tom Cruise’s enduring appeal as fighter pilot. It was an admission from the screenwriters that modern air combat has moved on. Modern fifth-generation fighters like the F-35 are not built for close-range dogfights. They are designed to detect threats from long distances, strike first, and vanish before the enemy...
Every prime minister since Pierre Trudeau has failed to rehabilitate the official residence. Carney has a chance to show us he's different.
This was supposed to be a time when incumbents had no chance of re-election. Post-Covid economies made voters mad about the cost of living, worried about the cost of government, and fed up with of being told how to think and act. They wanted more freedom, lower costs and less taxation. People wanted a political leader who was focused on...
Susan Delacourt: One word leapt out at me in a piece you wrote for this paper last week, Matt, and it was this one: “killed.” As in, the Conservatives got killed in the election. I agree that their hopes got killed — especially the hopes they had when they were 20 points ahead of the Liberals. But here’s the thing...
I’m not sure, as an Albertan, that the biggest Alberta political news of the week isn’t the official secession of the Alberta New Democratic Party from the national NDP. Last weekend members of the NDP-A voted at a general assembly to allow for separate provincial memberships in the party: no longer will the NDP be one and indivisible. It seems...
The unprecedented events leading to Canada’s 45th federal election defined two different ballot questions for the principal parties. In the first three months of 2025, the political landscape of the country transformed in ways no one could have predicted. The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and the subsequent election of Mark Carney as Liberal leader were the first...
Our parliamentary system is in a state of disrepair so advanced that it has lost much of its relevance
The Prime Minister seems to be following the path of his predecessor, which he warned against leading up to the April 28 election
While previously touting his pledge to make Canada an “energy superpower,” Prime Minister Mark Carney went further on Tuesday, explicitly saying he supports building a pipeline if the consensus exists for one. “First off, I’ve said repeatedly: yes. First point,” Carney said in an exclusive interview with CTV News’ Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos on Tuesday, his first since becoming...
After an election campaign in which Prime Minister Mark Carney went to great lengths to differentiate himself from former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal era, his first post-election cabinet balances fresh faces with experienced veterans in a major shakeup of his senior team, analysts say.
Longtime cabinet minister Melanie Joly says Prime Minister Mark Carney shuffling her out of foreign affairs is a move she’s been asking for, for years. In Tuesday’s cabinet shuffle — which Carney framed as blending two dozen new faces with several more experienced ministers — Joly was replaced with Anita Anand in the top diplomatic post, then sworn-in as the...
Toronto MP and former housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith says “it’s impossible not to feel disrespected” after Prime Minister Mark Carney removed him from cabinet. “I ran again because of the opportunity to make an even bigger difference around the cabinet table and to help fix the housing crisis,” the Beaches—East York MP said in a post on X. “The way...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will not explicitly say whether he trusts U.S. President Donald Trump, and says when he called his American counterpart “transformational” during their Oval Office sit-down, he meant it in both a good and bad way. Amid Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products and persisting threats to Canadian sovereignty — and after Carney ran a campaign centred on...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he opposes Alberta separatism but added that Albertans have a “right to be frustrated” with Ottawa. Speaking to reporters Tuesday shortly after Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his new federal cabinet, Poilievre was asked whether he was willing to “publicly denounce Alberta separatism and the Alberta separatist movement.”
The Bloc Quebecois candidate for the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne says she's evaluating her options after a judicial recount that saw her lose by a single vote. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagne's statement comes as Elections Canada investigates a possible error involving an uncounted mail-in ballot from a Bloc voter in the Terrebonne riding. Voter Emmanuelle Bosse told Montreal media that she mailed...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the appointment of Julie Dabrusin as Canada's new environment minister is a bad idea that forecasts renewed federal opposition to oil and gas development. Smith made the comments on social media shortly after Dabrusin was named to the post by Prime Minister Mark Carney. Smith says her government remains keen to work with Carney to...
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says Gregor Robertson brings "the type of experience" needed to help tackle Canada's housing crisis after a decade as the mayor of Vancouver - a period that coincided with sharp increases in the city's home prices.
Carney's ministry includes 24 new people — and 13 of them were just elected. Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a major overhaul of his cabinet Tuesday as he looks to remake the Liberals in his image and turn the page on the last government. Carney's new ministry, which includes 28 cabinet ministers and nine secretaries of state from every province...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet has taken shape without 11 of the ministers he brought around the table barely two months ago. On the outs are former defence minister Bill Blair, former president of the Treasury Board Ginette Petitpas Taylor and former energy and natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson. All of those experienced ministers held numerous posts under former...
We all know the election result was a minority government. But it was very close, which makes the recount story fascinating and, for some, controversial. Bruce Anderson and Fred DeLorey have their thoughts on this and are here to explain them. Also today, we unveil this week's question for Thursday's Your Turn.
EDMONTON -- Calgary legislature member Ric McIver is the new Speaker of the Alberta legislature.
The new Liberal cabinet is replete with fresh faces -- and some familiar ones -- and designed to focus on the U.S. trade crisis.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has created a new artificial intelligence ministry as part of today's cabinet shuffle, which saw some personnel changes in key ministries.
Carney has unveiled a 28-member cabinet. Follow the Star's live coverage Tuesday.
Honda has stalled its $15-billion plan to build four new electric vehicle factories in Ontario for two years but will continue production of other cars and sport utility vehicles at its giant assembly complex in Alliston, north of Toronto.
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is lifting two long-standing moratoriums on new seafood buyer and processor licences starting Aug. 1.
'Canada's new Ministry is built to deliver the change Canadians want and deserve,' Carney said in a statement
PICKERING - Ontario drivers are set to benefit from the province's upcoming budget, as Premier Doug Ford is announcing today that it will make a gas tax cut permanent and remove tolls from the provincially owned portion of Highway 407.
The new program will get the latest cancer drugs to patients at least nine months faster.
Ford and Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy are cutting 5.7 cents a litre of the gas tax and eliminating tolls on the provincially operated part of the tollway.
Bloc Québécois voter's mail-in ballot was returned to sender after the election. Elections Canada says it is investigating after a voter in a Quebec riding came forward with an envelope that had been returned to sender. Inside was a vote for the Bloc Québécois in the Terrebonne riding, where, as it stands, incoming Liberal MP Tatiana Auguste was declared the...
Pierre Poilievre is staying put in the residence of the leader of the Official Opposition even though the federal Conservative Leader lost his riding in the recent election. Andrew Scheer, now acting as the interim Official Opposition leader in Mr. Poilievre’s absence, confirmed the plans on Monday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has revealed his new cabinet, which includes the replacement of Melanie Joly as foreign affairs minister with Anita Anand.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans proposed sweeping tax breaks Monday in President Donald Trump's big priority bill, tallying at least $4.9 trillion in costs so far, partly paid for with cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy programs used by millions of Americans.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans revealed the sweeping tax provisions for President Donald Trump's big bill Monday, tallying at least $4.9 trillion in costs so far, partly paid for with reductions to Medicaid and other programs used by millions of Americans.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting Librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the first such encounter between the two nations' leaders in 25 years.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Donald Trump in a speech in Saudi Arabia will urge Iran to take a "new and a better path" as he pushes for new nuclear deal.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump signed a host of economic and bilateral cooperation agreements in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as he kicked off a four-day Middle East trip with a focus on dealmaking with a key Mideast ally while shared concerns about Iran's nuclear program and the war in Gaza dragged on in the background.
The United States and China said Monday they had agreed to a 90-day pause on most of the tariffs they have imposed on each other since last month, in a major step toward easing a trade war between the two powers that has rattled the global economy.
GENEVA (AP) -- The lead U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China cheered "a great deal of productivity" in resolving differences between the world's two leading economic powers, after officials wrapped two days of bargaining in Switzerland following President Donald Trump imposing steep tariffs and Beijing retaliating.
Mortgage fraud in Canada has surged in recent years, raising deep concerns across multiple sectors. Anxiety is soaring among lenders as they face rising losses and inflated property prices. Meanwhile, organized criminal actors are overwhelming regulators and law enforcement. Several complex factors are behind the growing crisis, including pressures from housing affordability, rising interest rates, and the lingering effects of...
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has forever changed global commodities markets. The economic sanctions subsequently imposed on Russia exposed multiple risks related to (over)reliance on a single or dominant suppliers of critical materials (Sukhankin 2024a).
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Parliament will look very different when newly-elected MPs return to Ottawa this month. There will be far less diversity of voices in the House of Commons with the demise of the NDP, and this is not good for our democracy.
Canada’s premier agency for cyber-security, which helps governments and businesses defend against bad actors, itself got scammed as part of a wide-ranging IT overbilling fraud worth several million dollars.
Some dismissed it as the “erectile dysfunction” ad. Others laughed it off as a desperate Hail Mary to salvage a faltering campaign in Southern Ontario—specifically in the all-important 905 region. Well, they can stop laughing. Call it the blue belt now. The Conservatives not only held their ground in the 905—they flipped several Liberal ridings.
Canada's unemployment rate remained relatively stable for the month of April, sitting at 6.9%. But the rate for youth unemployment jumped to its highest figure in the past two decades excluding pandemic figures, now sitting at a little more than 15%. And as companies continue to strategize how to stay afloat among tariffs, more specifically, who they can get rid...
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet was sworn in at Rideau Hall. Among them are 24 new faces but also a solid handful of the same big names from the previous government. What does it tell us about the government’s priorities? Is it enough of a change from the Trudeau years? Plus, the Liberals gained a seat after...
Host Noor sits down with Adelina Iftene, a criminal lawyer from Romania, who calls Mark Carney’s revival of “tough on crime” a “slippery slope”. Will Mark Carney’s revival of “tough on crime” fix anything? What actually makes communities safer? And what happens if we get this wrong?
Torn at for nine years by the divisive Trudeau Liberals, Canadian unity is seriously frayed, with Alberta now preparing for a possible secession referendum. In this episode, Brian talks with Reform Party founder Preston Manning, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and longtime Liberal pollster Dan Arnold to get a sense of how dire the situation has become. Manning explains that the...
