U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said outstanding issues with Canada are "quite difficult to resolve" as the G20 trade ministers' meeting came to a close in Milwaukee on Thursday. Greer and Canada's International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu had a pull-aside conversation at the summit Wednesday. Sidhu said he raised Canada-U.S. trade with Greer, along with other matters such as World...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says an oil pipeline to the West Coast is the first project to receive national interest designation under the Building Canada Act. Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made the announcement together Thursday in Alberta's oilsands hub of Fort McMurray. "This is an important day for Alberta and for Canada," Carney said.
Pierre Poilievre tells Rob what he thinks of Mark Carney's commitment to a new pipeline. Parliament has finally resumed amid major challenges confronting Canada, including ongoing trade conflict with the U.S., an economic slowdown, affordability concerns, and threats to national unity. The National Post’s Rob Breakenridge is joined by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for a conversation about how — or...
A sitting MLA with Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party says he has voted in favour of proceeding with a legally binding referendum on whether the province should leave Canada. Red Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan confirmed how he voted in this fall’s referendum to CBC News at a town hall he hosted Tuesday night at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame...
The proposed high-speed rail line between Quebec City and Toronto could cost billions more than the federal government’s estimate, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO). The report estimates the project will cost between $75 billion and $113 billion, compared with the government’s estimate of $60 billion to $90 billion. Among the largest cost drivers is...
The proportion of Canadians who are actively shunning American products has increased slightly since the start of the summer. a new Research Co. poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, 58% of Canadians say they are avoiding goods originated from the United States, if a non-American alternative is available, up three points since a similar...
Canada’s federal political landscape remains defined by a significant gap between the Liberals and their rivals, according to the latest weekly tracking. Liberal support stands at just under 50 per cent nationally, while the Conservatives remain in second place and the NDP trailing. The findings suggest that voter preferences have remained relatively stable in recent weeks, with little evidence of...
It could have been worse for Pierre Poilievre — at least Scott Aitchison is not leaving the Conservative caucus to join Mark Carney’s Liberals. But Aitchison, a one-time leadership opponent of Poilievre’s who has represented Parry Sound—Muskoka for nearly seven years, is the kind of Conservative that Carney has been attracting. He’s a man over 50 in Ontario and polls...
Promises to lower the cost of gasoline from B.C. New Democrat Leader David Eby, and praise for a planned pipeline from Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson fuelled British Columbia's snap election campaign on Thursday. Eby's platform for relief at the gas pumps comes in two parts: a temporary reduction of the provincial motor fuel tax by 10 cents per litre...
International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu had a pull-aside chat with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer Wednesday during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, Sidhu's office says. A "pull aside" is an informal conversation between officials on the sidelines of international meetings. Discussing trade tensions between Canada and the United States on Bloomberg news today, Greer said the administration of...
It’s bad form, in writing, to mix your metaphors. But this summer, speaking to an array of people in and around the Carney government, there were two I kept hearing used to describe how things work in Ottawa these days, both of them apt. One is the ancient parable of the blind men and the elephant. Each man touches a...
Until Mark Carney came along, the Liberals never had a prime minister from the province of Alberta. Mr. Carney was born in 1965 in the Northwest Territories and spent his first six years there. But his formative years – the next 12 – were lived in Edmonton. Young Mark delivered the Edmonton Journal newspaper. His father Bob was a deputy...
Less than a week before the October 5th Quebec general election, the Parti Québécois (PQ) remains clearly ahead in the polls and, according to recent seat projections, has a shot at winning a majority of the National Assembly’s 127 seats with only around 30% of popular support. This outcome is likely despite the fact that a large majority of Quebecers...
These are unusual times. There’s a trade war on, given special intensity by Donald Trump’s threats to use “economic force” to bend Canada to his will. To counter the U.S. administration’s crude attempts to divert capital south of the border, governments across the country are mobilizing resources in ways they might not otherwise contemplate. A sort-of wartime economy, fit for...
Mark Carney has managed to fashion a surprisingly workable peace with provincial premiers. But it’s hard to imagine that peace will reign across the land after next week’s Quebec election. The Parti Québécois is about to take power again, for the first time in more than a dozen years, and it’s not just the possibility of an eventual referendum on...
For Prime Minister Mark Carney, yesterday was the sort of day he might look back on fondly from the other side of his political honeymoon. As he stood in Vancouver and announced that LNG Canada is moving forward with its $33 billion Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C., Carney’s approval rating had just hit a new high of 6...
There is no shortage of commentary across multiple media platforms on the subject of U.S. President Donald Trump as a bully. Indeed, reading the stream of entries, it is fair to say there is a strong consensus that this is what and who the man is. Whatever his origin story, whatever he endured as a child (and there is plenty...
B.C. NDP Leader David Eby is a shrewd, confident competitor. He will challenge anyone currently suffering from a stomach virus to a hot-dog-eating contest. He will dare any chess champion to a tournament when they are sleeping. Mr. Eby will tackle a bear in a cage (from the outside, without actually touching the bear), or wrestle any and all comatose...
To the group of masked white-nationalist cowards who trespassed on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation to strike fear into the hearts of people living there: we can only hope the full force of the law catches up to you in short order. It should happen quickly. The group of flag-waving thugs with their white face masks and black uniforms...
The north remembers. Right now, that’s not just a catchphrase from the hit American television show about dragons and thrones. It’s also a fact for millions of Canadians stuck dealing with a second Trump administration that routinely threatens our cultural sovereignty and political independence with economic warfare. No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 202...
Quebec and Alberta may have more in common than anyone suspected — at least when it comes to seceding from Canada. In both provinces, over 70 per cent of voters oppose separation, a question that is animating both the Quebec election and the Alberta referendum campaign. The two votes come to a head Oct. 5 and 19, respectively, and their...
Had to do it. Had to toss the political puzzler Premier Danielle Smith's way Monday. After all, the latest poll from late last week shows support for Smith and the UCP dropping in Calgary, now trailing Naheed Nenshi in the city by several points. Yes, trailing Nenshi in Calgary. The UCP and NDP are tied in the province.
The return of Parliament and, especially, of Question Period last week underscores an urgent national problem: this country desperately needs a good opposition. Even one. Instead, we get sustained bile, messages hollered from the balcony, smear tactics, and scripted questions delivered with all the genuine passion of a hostage video. This is not just a token nod to the vital...
PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS LEADER Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has a dim view of the province he wishes to make a country. Quebec, he says, is at once threatened by creeping Islamism and a radical leftist cabal bent on prosecuting the nation-to-be for an array of purported crimes, racism chief among them. Aping internet trolls and MAGA Republicans, he has taken to labelling...
It’s easy to miss the holes in Canada’s social support systems until you really need that safety net. While many Canadians take pride in programs such as public health insurance or Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, the current reality often falls far short of their legacy reputations. EI benefits have been outdated for a long time. But now, as the U.S...
“Even when Trump moves on, another Trump will eventually come along. That is why it is better to truly break free and become independent, even if it means suffering for a while.” It’s a sentiment that has become ubiquitous among Canadians over the past year. It has bubbled up in coffeeshop chatter, in flags springing up on front lawns and...
Parliament is back with a substantive legislative agenda that reminds us: Democracy is nothing without accountability. For shame, then, that His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is distracted by internal schisms and online echo chambers. This fall, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives must gain a foothold. The party’s own MPs know it. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman told reporters, “This is not the position...
When Kerry-Lynne Findlay abruptly resigned as leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia last Sunday, B.C. Premier David Eby’s New Democrats were almost certainly popping champagne corks. After less than four months of Findlay’s tenure — marked by bizarre backroom machinations, hard-right staff hirings and a catastrophic exodus of 14 MLAs — the official opposition looked broken. With a...
There’s a certain water-is-wet quality to noting the furious pace of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. The busyness feels less like a byproduct than a self-conscious mission statement, even a dare: this is how we roll, so keep up or get left behind. Even by those standards, the past two weeks have been frenetic. There was the investment summit in...
After a year of threatening to seize Greenland by force, Donald Trump has inked a deal to extend indefinite American influence over the autonomous Danish territory. It’s “a dream come true for the United States of America,” the president posted on social media this week. A day earlier, Prime Minister Mark Carney made his own announcement: Canada would be joining...
We’ve known for months that Canada’s Armed Forces have done some thinking about the admittedly remote possibility that Donald Trump’s United States might launch some kind of military action against this country. Anonymous government officials told the Globe and Mail back in January that the military had modelled a “hypothetical” U.S. invasion, apparently for the first time in a century...
Nearly three months into the federal government’s four-day, in-office mandate, one Employment and Social Development Canada employee says he was assigned to a regional office for a single reason: to satisfy the on-site requirement. “Nobody in my reporting line or functional area is in this location,” he told The Hill Times.
Voters in a number of ridings across the country will choose new federal representatives in the coming weeks and months after members of Parliament from four major parties quit the House of Commons for diplomatic appointments, provincial politics or retirement. When a seat in the House of Commons becomes vacant, the prime minister must call an election between 11 and...
A rogue artificial intelligence agent attempted to hack a Canadian government website earlier this year, an incident report by an AI research group revealed. Two attempted hacks took place, one on May 28 and another on June 9 on a Canadian government website, the report by Transluce, an independent, nonprofit research lab dedicated to public oversight of AI, said on...
Second Sons Canada describes itself as a "men's nationalist club" dedicated to fitness and preserving Canada's heritage, but a former military member who attempted to join the group says he only learned about its true nature — which includes adoration for Hitler, neo-Nazis and hatred for Jews — when he met them in person.
The City of Brampton has refused to release 455 pages of building records related to extensive renovations at Mayor Patrick Brown’s home in a decision that experts in freedom of information law say is out of step with transparency legislation. Brampton officials say that releasing information on Brown’s building permits would endanger the “life and physical safety” of an unnamed...
G20 trade ministers are set to wrap up two days of talks in Wisconsin today. Canada's International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is expected to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, though formal negotiations with the Americans are the responsibility of Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. During the two-day event Sidhu was also to meet with officials from India and...
It’s pipeline deadline day and Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith are set to make an announcement in the heartland of Alberta’s oil and gas industry. The Prime Minister’s Office said the two will reveal the next step to accelerate a “major infrastructure project.” The two are set to speak Thursday morning in Fort McMurray, where the Alberta...
U.S. President chastises Canadian leaders, says Canada has 'taken advantage' of U.S. U.S. President Donald Trump's war of words with Canada continued Wednesday as he veered off a prepared script at an event marking Hispanic Heritage Month in the States to chastise Canadian leaders for being what he called "very bad." Speaking at the White House, Trump said the U.S...
As unions and labour critics loudly decried the Liberals' new Building Canada Strong Act as an attack on workers' right to strike last week, industry sources say their more reserved reaction stems from “frustration” that the bill falls short of providing...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada's federal government will "use all powers that we have" against the U.S. owner of an Ontario steel plant that announced hundreds of layoffs on Monday. Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its plan to cut up to 500 jobs in Hamilton with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada.
Canada's fisheries minister urged France on Wednesday to abandon a plan to launch a snow crab fishery in waters near Newfoundland and the French territory of St-Pierre-Miquelon. Joanne Thompson said France made no mention of its plan to Canadian officials, despite Prime Minister Mark Carney visiting French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month in St-Pierre-Miquelon, a small archipelago about 2...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's important to reflect on a "dark chapter" in Canada's history and honour the children who survived residential schools and those who never made it home. He made the comment today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, at a ceremony featuring drumming and traditional dancers at Fort Edmonton Park.
A New Brunswick MP says a truck carrying supplies to the isolated community of Campobello Island was held at the U.S. border Tuesday. The truck was carrying Canadian milk and alcohol on the same day a U.S. ban on imports of both products came into effect as part of the ongoing trade war. The island can only be reached by...
Conservative MP Scott Aitchison has officially announced he’s resigning his seat following the conclusion of the fall parliamentary sitting. In a letter posted on social media on Wednesday, the 53-year-old said, “it is time for a new chapter where I will explore new opportunities.” Aitchison most recently served as the Conservatives’ housing critic and said the role, “allowed me to...
International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is expected to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Wisconsin this week. Sidhu's spokesperson says a specific time and format for that conversation have not been set. Sidhu also has bilateral meetings scheduled for today with the trade ministers for France, Australia and Turkey, and is meeting...
From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations. The EU and Canada will use a landmark summit next month to announce an expansive new partnership, ranging from breaking down digital trade barriers to joint support for Ukraine and investing in fighting wildfires. "The world is rapidly changing with unprecedented geopolitical...
A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew staged a dramatic intervention to subdue the attacker and the plane eventually made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The FlyDubai flight travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed safely after...
Mark Carney built a global profile in 2026 by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump. If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Carney briefly became the favorite Monday for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Kalshi, a...
ust weeks after winning a lucrative government contract to supply thousands of drones to the Canadian Armed Forces, a Saskatchewan-based company announced a major investment from a high-profile American backer. Draganfly, a leader in cutting-edge drone solutions, announced this week it received a $10-million investment from an unnamed American firm and Unusual Machines, a company backed by Donald Trump Jr.
Conservative MP Scott Aitchison is resigning his seat from Parliament by the end of the year, according to a source close to him. The source tells CTV News that after being in elected office for 30 years, Aitchison will be stepping back to pursue other opportunities. CTV News has also learned that Aitchison informed Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre about his...
Prime Minister Mark Carney appealed to common values like democracy and reliability when he called for deeper trade and defence ties at the European Parliament earlier this month. But some experts say with the rise of far-right parties on the continent, key European allies may not always share those values — and Canada should keep that possibility in mind as...
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a terse rebuke Tuesday to steelmaker Stelco and its parent company for breaching “legal obligations” to maintain jobs in Canada, saying Ottawa will pursue legal action against the company if it fails to meet those obligations. The day after Stelco Holdings announced it would lay off up to 500 workers at its Hamilton and Lake...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has a new club of countries forming his envisioned alliance of middle powers, but observers say more details are needed about what the bloc will do. At the beginning of the year in Davos, Switzerland, Carney (Nepean, Ont.) highlighted his idea for middle powers coming together amid a world of superpower competition. That work continued to...
When Wilton Littlechild was co-chairing the landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission more than a decade ago, he thought a lot about the idea of economic reconciliation and how it could help transform Indigenous communities. "You may have the best ideas in the world but without a fundamental grounding and foundation to self-determination, you're missing a very important part," Littlechild said...
Indigenous leaders struck a resolute tone Wednesday as the country marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation following reports of a white supremacist demonstration in a First Nations community in the B.C. interior. "Survivors have fought for decades to defend their truths and confront the distortion of history, while our legal system still fails to recognize denialism for what...
Long-term, sustained funding and a “Building Canda strong” strategy that doesn’t neglect or overshadow Ottawa’s commitments to Indigenous Peoples are among the important steps towards reconciliation as the country faces a time of economic uncertainty, according to advocates. “In recent years, the federal focus may have shifted toward economic growth and our shared sovereignty, but the federal government must never...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he has no plans to apply new trade pressure on the U.S. as Americans prepare for crucial midterm elections that could end Republican control of Congress. Speaking with reporters at a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Carney said Canada has no intention of escalating the trade war, although he noted he never rules...
Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto a chair Tuesday at a photo opportunity after a multibillion-dollar LNG announcement and came eye-to-eye with the six-foot-seven-inch David Eby, making both leaders laugh. But it's the British Columbia NDP leader's election campaign that got a boost with the announcement of the $33-billion Phase 2 expansion of LNG Canada's liquefied natural gas export terminal...
The partners behind Canada's first liquefied natural gas export terminal are proceeding with a project that would double its capacity as countries around the globe clamour for reliable sources of energy. LNG Canada announced Tuesday that it has made a final investment decision to go ahead with the Phase 2 expansion of its facility in Kitimat, B.C., which would bring...
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his cross-border trade war Tuesday as his outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods took effect, putting the brakes on new shipments of most Canadian-made booze, dairy byproducts and some motorcycles. The bans mark the latest escalation of the trade war as the Trump administration seeks to pressure Canada into trade concessions. Canada-U.S. Trade...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans are deeply frustrated with President Donald Trump's handling of the economy and rising prices, with most panning his performance and blaming his policies as higher costs threaten his party's chances in November.
Political power in legislatures and governors' offices is at stake in the November elections in more than one-third of the states, creating down-ballot drama in the midterms that could have significant implications for President Donald Trump's agenda.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ukraine will present the Trump administration and Congress this week with a wish list of Russian companies, vessels and individuals it would like to see hit with U.S. sanctions under a new law signed by President Donald Trump this month, according to a senior Ukrainian diplomat.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve's internal watchdog said Wednesday that the agency has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors.
A pilot stabbed another pilot and then apparently tried to crash to aircraft carrying dozens of Israelis on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew staged a dramatic intervention to subdue the attacker and the plane eventually made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The FlyDubai flight travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Israel landed safely after...
Prime Minister Mark Carney appealed to common values like democracy and reliability when he called for deeper trade and defence ties at the European Parliament earlier this month. But some experts say with the rise of far-right parties on the continent, key European allies may not always share those values — and Canada should keep that possibility in mind as...
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country would do to impact the vote. Peter Navarro, who has lashed out at Canada in the past, made these latest remarks during a talk at an economic conference in...
U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is co-hosting a global conference in Toronto on the plight of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials. In 2024, the Trudeau government co-launched with Ukraine an international coalition of nations committed to finding and returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since it began its full-scale invasion in 2022. Ukrainian authorities cite what they say
Canada’s aim to diversify and grow its exports will inevitably mean a significant focus on building deeper and more beneficial linkages with the Asia-Pacific. In this report, we show that Canada’s diversification challenge cannot be fully solved by merely substituting one large market with many small ones, nor by assuming that supply chains can quickly or easily be re-wired. To...
Canada has spent thirty years pretending that internal free trade can be achieved through polite first ministers’ meetings, press conferences, action plans, and the creation of agencies.
The visibility of Indigenous women in business can seem like a relatively new story, but it is not. Indigenous women have been leading in business and trade for centuries across North America. However, Indigenous women became disconnected from these responsibilities when the Crown imposed a sex-based hierarchy with the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869. Under that act a First Nations...
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RCMP officers who responded to the April 2020 mass murders in Nova Scotia will receive bravery medals from Governor General Louise Arbour. An announcement is expected “imminently,” says an Arbour spokesperson. The medals follow 23 awards for excellence quietly distributed last year by RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme to RCMP members and employees who managed the grisly incident, in which 2...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has finally charted a course out of the morass that is 24 Sussex Drive, the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers since 1951. Carney’s June announcement of a private-sector competition to “modernize” the decrepit building, abandoned in 2015 and later put into mothballs, was welcomed by heritage advocates as an end to a political impasse. A...
Artificial intelligence has moved from a promising general-purpose technology to an increasingly consequential layer of economic, social and public infrastructure. It is already raising productivity, expanding access to expertise, accelerating scientific discovery and creating new ways to deliver services. At the same time, AI systems are implicated in fraud, manipulation and cyberattacks and unreliable results and misinformation. The most capable...
Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be walking on water in the polls, as new numbers put the Liberals and their leader at highs not seen before in recent history. Meanwhile, support for Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives drops to new lows as an upcoming resignation means the party will face another tough byelection in the coming months.
Today on Playbook Canada, poll analyst Philippe J. Fournier joins Nick Taylor-Vaisey to discuss the ups and — for Christine Fréchette — serious downs of the Quebec election campaign. Fournier brings all the data to the conversation. Also, Prime Minister Mark Carney drops in on two high-stakes provincial campaigns. And a whiff of patronage returns to the Senate. Plus, 20...
When David Eby called an election in BC, he seemed to be missing one thing -- a reason. James Moore and Gerald Butts are together again for another conversation and this is a natural, Conservative James knows BC and Liberal Gerald knows elections. They discuss that plus their thoughts and the relationship between then Canadian media and the politicians they...
The Globe and Mail has learned that a Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana and Canadians were using satellite equipment brought into Cuba by the United States when officials from both countries began experiencing debilitating symptoms caused by alleged sonic attacks linked to Russia, according to two sources. Now, former Canadian spies and high-level security officials...
