Alberta Prosperity Project says it will push the premier to hold referendum in 2025. An Alberta separatist group released on Monday a referendum question on independence from Canada that it will petition to get in front of provincial voters — but only once it has garnered support from 600,000 Albertans. That's more than triple the number of signatures the Alberta...
Among the names to watch for are Tim Hodgson, Carlos Leitao and former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson. Prime Minister Mark Carney will be at Rideau Hall on Tuesday to unveil the team that he promised in his victory speech on election night would “do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen generations.” Carney will be presenting a “small...
When Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils his new cabinet on Tuesday, more than half of his new front bench will be new faces, CTV News has confirmed. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tells CTV News that Carney’s new ministry will be a smaller, more focused roster, but will still be slightly larger than his pre-election selection. The prime minister’s cabinet...
Climate activists and energy leaders say Prime Minister Mark Carney will need to make some hard choices on whether to bolster the country's oil and gas sector as means of achieving economic stability. Throughout the election campaign, Carney signalled an openness to building more pipelines in Canada and promised to cut approval times to get projects built faster. He also...
Canada's business community will be watching Tuesday's cabinet shuffle for signs that Prime Minister Mark Carney will be easier to work with than the last Liberal government. Experts and insiders say one of the ways Carney can emphasize that is by keeping a lean cabinet.
Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,259 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four waves of tracking ending May 9th, 2025. The margin of error for a random survey of 1,259 Canadians is ±2.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The research was commissioned by the Bloomberg and was conducted by Nanos Research.
The objective of the research was to gauge views of Canadians on newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney’s impact on unity among Canadians. Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) hybrid telephone and online random survey of 1,055 Canadians, 18 years of age or older, between May 5th and 8th, 2025 as part of an omnibus survey. The margin...
“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.
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says talk of Alberta separatism is 'irresponsible' and it's "not smart" for politicians to make statements about it without consulting with First Nations first. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has introduced a bill that would make it easier for Albertans to launch referendums on various topics -- including splitting from Canada. Smith...
A 24-year-old Quebecer is celebrating one of the closest victories in the history of federal politics after flipping a Bloc Québécois seat to Liberal by an incredibly narrow margin. “It’s been a rollercoaster. From winning to not winning, and then winning again,” said Tatiana Auguste, the new member of Parliament for Terrebonne, Que., northeast of Montreal.
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
Prime Minister Mark Carney will name his cabinet on Tuesday. Our panel of party insiders discusses what to expect, as U.S. tariffs remain front of mind for Canadians.
Fort McKay First Nation in northern Alberta exemplifies what can be achieved when people reject division and work together
During his leadership campaign and now, as prime minister, Mark Carney reached for a loaded phrase: “Masters in our own home.” “The old relationship we had with the United States is over. What exactly the United States does next is unclear. But what is clear is that we as Canadians have agency, we have power. We are masters in our...
When Premier Danielle Smith speaks, she's still placing the Canadian flags behind her in among the Alberta provincial flags. As much as critics insist she's either a separatist herself or is opening the door wide to the Alberta secessionist movement by easing the rules to have a referendum next year, the premier herself maintains that she wants Alberta to stay...
Prime Minister Mark Carney made his eagerly anticipated visit to the White House for his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this week. The meeting was anticlimactic and saw no confrontations, trolling or perceived slights from the mercurial American leader. Each man greeted the other with warm handshakes, beaming smiles, and spirited fist jabs. The jovial and festive vibes...
I was hoping to manage the Liberal media bus again for the 2025 Carney election campaign. It’s really a sweet gig if you don’t mind the odd moments of terror. You get to see Canada in all its beautiful glory, meet old friends, make new friends – and get a front-row seat to history. There are also a lot of...
A Saskatoon woman wearing a transgender rights T-shirt was removed from a Conservative rally featuring Pierre Poilievre during the election campaign.
Across the Western world, a generational shift in defence and security policy is underway. The so-called “peace dividend” that followed the Cold War, when countries reduced military spending to invest in domestic priorities, is now history. In the words of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, we now need to prepare for the defence dividend. This week, Starmer committed the United...
When my editor asked me recently whether I had any thoughts on a Conservative election post-mortem, my reply was simple: we have to use the term post-mortem in a more literal sense than normal. The Conservatives don’t need to merely review the campaign. They need to figure out precisely what killed them. Because unless they find an answer, they won’t...
Now we wait. There is a sweat-it-out period on Canada-U.S. trade now. There aren’t real negotiations going on, not in the nitty-gritty sense, not yet. There’s a kind of pause to regroup. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump sat next to Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office and said there’s nothing the United States wants from Canada. He told...
A failure to accommodate shifting circumstances is prompting questions inside the party about whether a 45-year-old man can truly change
The conflict between India and Pakistan is not a sudden wildfire — it is a bed of long-burning embers, lying beneath decades of unresolved history, territorial disputes, mutual distrust, and a clash of national religious identities. From time to time, a gust of wind — a political provocation, a militant attack, or a deadly border clash — fans them back...
Pierre Poilievre has moved quickly to consolidate his leadership of the Conservative Party in the wake of its disappointing loss in the April 28th general election and his own stunning personal loss of the suburban Ottawa riding of Carleton, which he had held for 20 years. But Poilievre’s placement of faithful lieutenant and former leader Andrew Scheer to lead the...
As the reality of the federal Conservative Party’s defeat in last week’s federal election manifested, infighting within the movement erupted, particularly between the leaders of provincial Progressive Conservative parties and the federal party. This was, in turn, met by accusations by some federal Conservatives that Ontario premier Doug Ford was some kind of Liberal booster, and that he was somehow...
What's the diplomatic thing to say when the U.S. president insults your predecessor, your close colleague and many others, to boot? In his Devil’s Dictionary, 19th-century American writer Ambrose Bierce defined diplomacy as the “patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”
Bell Canada is renewing its push for the federal telecommunications regulator to block competitors from reselling fibre internet service on its network. The company has launched a new campaign called Build, Connect and Grow Canada, targeting a February decision by the CRTC allowing telecom giants to sell internet service in regions where they don’t own fibre networks by paying the...
Canadians are growing more optimistic about the economy, as the conclusion of a national election relieves some anxiety around the country’s direction and US President Donald Trump’s threats.
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.
The Conservative Party began its post-election review last week and talked about what happened in the April 28 election, with the process expected to continue in the coming weeks, says Rob Batherson, former Conservative Party president. The federal Conservative caucus held a full-day meeting on Parliament Hill last week—their first since the election—to discuss what went right and what went...
International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News. The claims are rising, even as Ottawa cuts the number of study permits it issues, with Prime Minister Mark Carney pledging like his predecessor Justin Trudeau to return Canadian immigration to “sustainable levels.”
Canada hopes to make progress on lifting tariffs before G7 summit in Alberta: LeBlanc. International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada has "no reason to think" the United States wants to trigger an early review of the North American free trade deal, but American officials do want to discuss tackling economic and security issues together.
Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to the province's premier, her husband and their dog. Kathleen Sokvitne has lived on the street in High River, Alta., about 60 kilometres south of Calgary, for 30 years. She says those flags show that not all Albertans...
Following years of diplomatic and trade tensions, China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, insists the two countries can move past what he characterizes as “normal” differences. “For China and Canada to bring our relationship back onto the right track, we need to seek common ground while reserving differences in a constructive way,” Wang said through a translator in an exclusive...
A care package with goods from the prime minister's hometown in the N.W.T. is on its way to Ottawa — and the woman who put it together just hopes it'll make him smile. "It was not a political gesture," said Patti-Kay Hamilton, of Fort Smith, N.W.T., but rather a way "to say thanks for making me happy."
Liberals now have 170 seats in House of Commons, two shy of a majority government. After a judicial recount, sources tell CBC News the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped to the Liberals, who have beaten the Bloc Québécois by one vote. The result means the Liberals have 170 seats in the House of Commons — just two shy of...
Canadian snowbirds could stay longer in the United States without a visa if a bill recently proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.
A wave of rookie MPs will take their seats in the House when the 45th Parliament begins this month, and some of those newcomers who unseated long-serving or high-profile incumbents say the key to their success was listening to concerns, and responding to calls for change.
Nearly two weeks after a bitter election defeat, the Conservative party has turned its sights to its next chapter: rolling out tone shifts, a renewed media strategy, and the reintroduction of its leader to start courting voters who turned elsewhere at the ballot box. Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives — for supporters have, at least publicly, united around him — are keen...
With a successful election and a high-stakes trip to Washington behind him, Prime Minister Mark Carney is grappling with a tangle of considerations and big decisions as he launches his first governing mandate for Canada’s incoming minority Parliament.
Elections Canada will recount the ballots in the riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore (WTL), following a one-hour hearing in Superior court Friday. Former Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk lost the riding to the Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli by 77 votes. The initial count had the difference at 233. Kusmierczyk’s lawyer, Jeff Hewitt argued some “...ballots should not have been rejected.”
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says the Liberals are making phone calls to NDP members of parliament to see if they will join the Liberal Party in an effort to reach a majority government. Davies told Global News he’s not worried about his six other NDP MP colleagues switching political teams. “I do know that there’s been certain calls made...
A former MP who was barred from running in the federal election for the Liberal Party because of alleged ties to India has formed a lobby group for Hindu Canadians. Chandra Arya, who served as a member of Parliament for the Ottawa riding of Nepean for more than nine years, was removed as the Liberal candidate for the district shortly...
Longtime cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc insists Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will set itself apart from that of former prime minister Justin Trudeau when it comes to relations with Alberta and Saskatchewan, despite plans to keep some divisive environmental policies. LeBlanc — who as intergovernmental affairs minister overseas the relationship between the federal government and provinces — told CTV’s Question...
4 MPs say this was more than a job, and the transition won't be easy. The last item former NDP MP Peter Julian will pack when he leaves his parliamentary office in downtown Ottawa is a single steel-toed work boot. For more than 20 years, the boot has been sitting in Julian's office — a strong reminder of his focus...
Federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is rejecting a severance package estimated at about $150,000 that he was entitled to receive after losing his Ottawa-area riding, a party official says. Under the rules of the House of Commons, Mr. Poilievre is eligible for severance worth $154,850, according to the calculations of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).
Sources say PM is considering a smaller group of core ministers. Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet is expected to be larger than his first, but could include a tiered structure with a secondary ring of ministers. Rideau Hall announced Friday that Carney and his cabinet will be sworn in Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in Ottawa by Gov. Gen. Mary...
From an ex-political journalist, Vancouver’s former mayor, a survivor of a mass murder, a former banking CEO and other star candidates who performed impressively on election night, Prime Minister Mark Carney has no shortage of high-profile rookie MPs to pick from for cabinet positions. The question remains: around how many veteran ministers from the Trudeau era will stay, or if...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be sworn in and unveil his new cabinet on Tuesday, Rideau Hall has confirmed. In a ceremony presided over by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, the newly elected prime minister will present to Canadians who he has picked to deliver on his series of campaign commitments, and lead on key files at a pivotal time for...
CALGARY -- Alberta's two big-city mayors say a separation referendum would be "devastating" to their local economies and is a needless distraction during a period in which the country should be focused on unity.
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.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans unveiled the cost-staving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's " big, beautiful bill " late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has fired the nation's top copyright official , Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.
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.
GENEVA (AP) -- Sensitive talks between U.S. and Chinese delegations over tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy ended after a day of prolonged negotiations and will resume Sunday, an official told The Associated Press.
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.S. Treasury Secretary and America's top trade negotiator began talks with high-ranking Chinese officials in Switzerland Saturday aiming to de-escalate a dispute that threatens to cut off trade between the world's two biggest economies and damage the global economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Who called first?
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).
Despite knowing very little about him, Canadians chose Mark Carney as their new prime minister. Fearful of the bellicose threats coming from the United States about Canada becoming the 51st state, voters turned to the former central banker as a steady hand to deal with President Donald Trump. With no previous political experience to point to, much was made during...
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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.
Top economic officials from the U.S. and China met in Geneva, Switzerland over the weekend. This was the first time that they’ve had face-to-face since the start of their enormous trade war.
Tomorrow Prime Minister Mark Carney will be unveiling his first cabinet since receiving a minority mandate from voters 2 weeks ago. The decisions will not be easy, as Carney has to navigate regional representation, a leaner inner circle, and a trade war with the U.S. that hangs over every federal decision. So who stays and who may get promoted?
The long-awaited Carney-Trump summit in the Oval Office left the Canadian delegation feeling encouraged, though the U.S. president still taunted the prime minister over Canada becoming the 51st American state. Former Quebec premier Jean Charest, also a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Council on Canada-U.S. Relations, joins the show to explain why he believes Canada could ultimately have reason...
Author, columnist and CEO Rose LeMay joins The Hot Room to discuss her new book, Ally is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
