Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she is checking on whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces an international arrest warrant, will be travelling through Canadian airspace on Thursday. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in 2024 for alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu is set to visit New York on Thursday and...
U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada again Wednesday, this time to claim that Canada is "destroying itself" by allowing millions of people into the country "essentially unchecked and unvetted." In a social media post Trump said this is causing unspecified problems that "will soon be too big to handle" and described it as a "Liberal takeover that will...
The Immigration Department will monitor for any negative effects from a recent decision not to extend a policy that gave permanent residency sponsorship exemptions to some refugees, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Wednesday. The policy was introduced in 2019 to allow some refugees to sponsor some undeclared family members for permanent residency but it expired earlier this month and was...
Both sides of British Columbia politics are racing to redefine the B.C. Conservatives, as the province goes to the polls on Oct. 24 in the wake of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's divisive leadership of the official Opposition party. NDP Leader David Eby says the Conservatives are soft on U.S. President Donald Trump, partly justifying the election call on Tuesday as necessary to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged $82 million over five years to bolster ocean monitoring as he continued his support for international collaboration at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. "Canada is an ocean nation," Carney said. Carney's emerging role as a key global champion of alliances and multilateralism has made him a frequent target of U.S. President Donald Trump.
A new Liaison Strategies British Columbia Political Tracker finds the BC NDP leading the BC Conservatives 41% to 36% among decided and leaning voters as the provincial election begins, despite half of British Columbians saying the province is heading in the wrong direction.
Canadian political preferences remain broadly stable, with the Liberals leading federal ballot support at 48.1 per cent, followed by the Conservatives at 31.0 per cent and the NDP at 11.2 per cent. Mark Carney is the most frequently selected choice for prime minister, ahead of Pierre Poilievre. Among national issues, relations with the United States and the economy rank as...
High-profile British Columbia cabinet minister Brenda Bailey won't be running for re-election in the Oct. 24 vote, becoming the fourth minister in David Eby's government to drop out. Bailey left the finance portfolio to take on the Jobs Ministry in August as she underwent cancer treatment. In a statement posted on social media, Bailey says she's had surgery and is...
Canada was among 20 countries who issued a joint statement during the UN General Assembly on Tuesday calling for stronger oversight of AI, even as the United States was rejecting any push to regulate the technology. Prime Minister Mark Carney signed the statement, which says "the rapid development of frontier AI models poses serious risks to safety and security if...
It’s hard to imagine a country as large and as resource-rich and as intelligently populated as Canada having made such a small footprint on the world stage for so long. But until now, until these transformational times for our country, that’s been generally the case all the way since 1867. Dwarfed by the powers of Great Britain, which controlled Canada’s...
I would like to play poker for money against the people who still believe what Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre say, because I doubt they can tell a spade from a diamond, a deuce from a Queen. As support for both Trump and Poilievre has diminished — they both have approval ratings of 32 per cent — I am starting...
The Conservative Party of Canada lost the last federal election because they couldn’t put enough distance between themselves and US President Donald Trump, and they seem very determined to lose the next one for the very same reason. Time and time again, they’ve been given opportunities to show their solidarity with Canada and their disdain for Trump and his movement...
Every September, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week converges on New York City. The week was once largely confined to the General Assembly. While the general debate remains its centrepiece, high-level week now also involves tens of thousands of delegates, observers, lobbyists, advocates, critics, enthusiasts, and hangers-on meeting in countless venues. There is “pre-HLW”, “post-HLW”, main meetings, side...
Are there lessons for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in this past weekend’s implosion of the short-lived leadership of the British Columbia Conservative Party’s Kerry-Lynne Findlay? Findlay, a former caucus colleague of the federal leader, lasted four months in her role before her Sept. 20 self-sendoff. From the outside, her approach seemed to be one fuelled by constant conflict, rage farming...
Mark Carney was in the room when two starkly different visions of the world order were laid before the United Nations General Assembly. One came from the secretary-general of the UN, António Guterres. The other came from Donald Trump.
B.C. Premier David Eby’s snap election call Tuesday may go down as a cynical but savvy decision that kept his government in power for another four years. Or it will be judged as a too-cute-by-half move that disastrously misjudged the mood of the electorate, leading to one of the most epic political blunders in the province’s history. Almost at the...
The statement that NDP Leader Avi Lewis posted on X on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur deserves to be reproduced in its entirety, in order to fully appreciate its malignancy and reckless stupidity. “Tonight Yom Kippur begins, the most sombre moment of the Jewish calendar,” Mr. Lewis wrote. “It’s a time of atonement – a time to grieve those...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent the last year and a half asking Canadians to embrace his “Canada Strong” agenda. We’ve all heard the slogans: Build more. Invest more. Approve projects faster. But while much of his plans depend on state action, they also require attracting private capital — and in some cases, trading on the value of public assets...
As a veteran columnist and editor, I can attest to the predominance of a handful of opening gambits that have stood the tests of both time and competition from political-aphorism upstarts. Harold Macmillan’s irresistible “Events, dear boy, events” and Yogi Berra’s (and Lenny Kravitz’s) “It ain’t over ’til it’s over” come to mind. In the Canadian canon, there’s Robert Bourassa’s...
We’re in a war of sorts with Donald Trump’s United States, or so the prime minister tells us. So to understand where we are right now I turned to my well-thumbed copy of Carl von Clausewitz’s “Vom Kriege” (On War), the Urtext for people who think about such things. Clausewitz, a Prussian general, was writing with the Napoleonic campaigns very...
On the world stage, he dazzles. Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks eloquently about shared values of democracy, addressing climate change, fighting for human rights, and walks his talk of like-minded countries banding together to preserve the rules-based international order. Whether its penning an op-ed in the Financial Times to announce Partners for Multilateralism with the presidents of Brazil, Kenya and...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is on Canada’s side in the upcoming Alberta separation referendum. But is she really? Or is she still toying with Albertans and Canadians. Pretending to be a federalist while quietly cheering on the separatists? It certainly sounded that way when she spoke last weekend at a virtual assembly on the future of Alberta.
On the eve of Parliament's return to business, Mark Carney sought to manage expectations. "We are meeting at a decisive moment for our country," the prime minister told a room full of Liberal MPs on Friday. Near the end of his remarks, Carney told his caucus that this would be "a crucial session of the House of Commons."
This is probably as good as it gets for Mark Carney, if the curse of Rolling Stone holds true. The prime minister was lauded for his “genius-level instincts” in a recent profile in the magazine, under the headline: “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.”
MARK CARNEY HAS achieved something close to rock-star status for being one of the only world leaders to stand up to United States president Donald Trump. Breaking off trade talks with the US carries enormous risks, but according to Angus Reid, 76 percent of Canadians back the prime minister’s decision. “They asked too much,” he explained, with characteristic crispness, “and...
There is a lot that United States President Donald Trump doesn’t understand. Canada is close to the top of the list. Trump is accustomed to wielding the presidency as the ultimate big stick. He gets his way by threatening, not persuading or charming, as past U.S. leaders have done. Can anyone picture Jimmy Carter threatening to annex the Great White...
Danielle Smith clearly loves America. In addition to her numerous diplomatic visits and personal holidays there, she has also used the country as a model for her own political brand, one that focuses far more on things like individual freedom and liberty than more traditionally Canadian values like community and shared interests. She has deliberately imported their most noxious culture...
Canada and Ukraine now have a drone deal. As announced recently by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Alberta, Canada and Ukraine will jointly produce unmanned weapons systems. Although many details of the plan have not yet been released, the basic idea seems to be that Canada will produce millions of drones a year domestically, using...
There's a level of irony in the deep admiration so many Alberta separatists harbour for our neighbour to the south. After all, there is no legal process for an American state to separate from the U.S. and, thus, such a movement could not exist there. Of course, the United States underwent a far messier and bloodier process before concluding that...
Over the summer of 2026, the annual escape from the daily battleground of question period overwhelmingly benefited Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney used his summer vacation from the House of Commons to burnish his economic credibility with Canadians through infrastructure announcements, boost his global currency by standing up to Donald Trump on trade, and renew his parliamentary majority via three...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is back from Europe and now Europe is coming closer to him. Over 48 hours on Sunday and Monday, he’ll meet with two European allies, two leaders who, like Mr. Carney, see strategic autonomy as the key goal of their foreign policy. If he wanted allies to help knit together a trans-Atlantic geopolitical alliance, he could...
Reaching a deal with southern neighbours will provide long-term certainty for Canadian economy
Federal government departments and agencies are set to spend more than $18 million to get their employees to work in the office more often. Thousands of federal public servants started a new work schedule in July requiring them to be on-site in the office four days a week. In response to an order paper question from NDP MP Heather McPherson...
U.S. President Donald Trump says his country will continue buying Canadian potash after all. Trump made the comments to reporters during a bilateral meeting at the United Nations General Assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It comes a day after Trump had said he was working on a deal to buy cheaper potash from Belarus in a bid to lessen...
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau said the U.S. is an "extremely unpredictable" partner because President Donald Trump's administration is "no longer working" in the best interest of Americans. The former prime minister shared his thoughts on the current Trump administration as part of a question and answer session with Brown University President Christina Paxson in Rhode Island on Tuesday.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors. Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that one of the most consequential parts of the sweeping economic legislation tabled Monday looks to give the public a better sense of what's happening when negotiations turn sour...
A Bramptonist community poll of 5,700 responses puts the incumbent at 76 per cent. The modern city record still belongs to Susan Fennell’s 2006 victory.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to close out his time at the United Nations General Assembly by reuniting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for an event to build collaboration around ocean observation. The OceanEye International Alliance event will bring together other leaders, civil society partners and UN organizations to build a network to observe and share...
The interim leader of British Columbia's Conservatives says they are united and ready to fight an Oct. 24 election, putting the chaotic final weeks of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's leadership behind them. Interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson, who replaced Findlay on Sunday, says NDP Leader David Eby is going to regret Tuesday's election call. Eby says the snap election that he called...
On the eve of last week’s Canada Investment Summit where the prime minister courted investors for over $1-trillion in Canadian project development, the Liberal Party and several Toronto-area MPs hosted an “Evening with Mark Carney” alongside hundreds of top-dollar donors, raising more than $800,000 in a single night and setting another high-water mark for its enhanced fundraising efforts since the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Canada in December, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed on Tuesday. Carney said the two countries are looking to reach a trade deal by the end of the year — a further sign that the once deep diplomatic chasm between the two governments is being bridged. "We're making good progress in our...
British Columbia Health Minister Ravi Kahlon says he will not seek re-election in the snap Oct. 24 provincial vote that has been called by David Eby. He becomes the third minister in Eby's cabinet to say they will not be running. Kahlon says the time is right for him to step aside in Delta North after three election cycles. Minister...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians and offering to expand an RCMP training mission of local police in the West Bank to include Gaza, when conditions allow. Speaking on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Carney said Canada remains focused on helping create a Palestinian country that...
Interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson says he'll be more than an interim premier if his party wins the snap Oct. 24 provincial vote that has been called by NDP leader David Eby. The official Opposition's constitution prohibits an interim leader from seeking the position permanently but Doerkson says he's running in the election to lead the province. Doerkson has...
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says he has talked to his international counterparts about setting up an organization to tackle AI safety. Solomon says he spoke with counterparts at the G7 today about establishing an international "technology stability board." He says the board would evaluate AI models for testing before they are released
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is axing its fuel tax for three months to help combat the cost at the pumps. Smith says drivers will save 13 cents a litre on gasoline and diesel starting Oct. 1. "Every fill-up will cost Alberta families and businesses less," she announced Tuesday during a speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce...
Canada has contributed to dozens of aid projects in the Palestinian territories that have since been damaged or destroyed by the Israeli military and Israeli settlers, according to a document tabled Monday in Parliament. "We're complicit and I just I can't stand it," said NDP MP Heather McPherson. "These are schools. These are water projects. These are roads. These are...
The federal government introduced its promised bill to extend the federal gas tax pause for several more months. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne introduced the legislation on Monday. The bill is up for the first significant debate today and Champagne says the measure will help farmers, families and truckers.
Labour leaders are denouncing what they call a direct attack on the right to strike in the sweeping economic bill the Liberal government tabled Monday. The Canadian Labour Congress on Tuesday accused the federal government of enshrining in the proposed legislation new powers allowing the federal government to quash strikes at a minister's whim. The Liberals, meanwhile, claim the bill...
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against "abusing" his majority government powers to pass his new major projects bill, which she says could affect First Nations rights. The Building Canada Strong Act shifts the responsibility for reviewing many big projects, such as pipelines and power transmission lines, from the Impact Assessment...
The Opposition British Columbia Conservatives have scrapped an appearance by new interim leader Lorne Doerkson and his caucus, citing a possible snap election call. The cancellation was announced Tuesday by the party's caucus amid looming expectations of an early election being called by B.C. Premier David Eby after a flurry of campaign-style announcements.
U.S. President Donald Trump defended his war against Iran before the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, claiming that "while others have talked, I have acted." "While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world," Trump said in his speech. The theme of the General Assembly...
The federal jobs minister says she can't give a "blanket answer" on when the federal government would move to end a strike or lockout under the new labour legislation tabled Monday. According to the proposed Building Canada Strong Act, a work stoppage must be affecting the "national interest" before the minister can trigger Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code...
Seven legislators from the breakaway CentreBC party are rejoining the official Opposition B.C. Conservatives after NDP Leader David Eby called an early election for Oct. 24. Eleanor Sturko says she is the sole CentreBC MLA who is not rejoining the official Opposition, while the Conservatives say interim leader Lorne Doerkson and CentreBC's leader Peter Milobar "have come together to give...
The federal government is offering First Nations along the Trans Mountain pipeline route a combined 15-per-cent equity stake and a $2.5-million lump-sum payment for each group that agrees to invest. The proposal was made in letters sent by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne to First Nations last week. The Globe obtained a copy of one of those letters, and Mr. Champagne’s...
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working on a “massive Deal” to buy potash from Minsk at a steep discount amid the trade war with Canada. “Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets...
As U.S. President Donald Trump works on a deal to buy potash from Belarus to lessen dependence on Canadian fertilizer, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is warning that the eastern European country has blood on its hands. "More than 40 countries - Canada and its allies - have sanctions against Belarus for supporting war criminal (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's invasion of...
The new interim leader of the British Columbia Conservatives will face reporters today as he works to reconstruct the Opposition caucus after weeks of upheaval ahead of a potential early election. Lorne Doerkson, who was appointed after Sunday's resignation of Kerry-Lynne Findlay, is scheduled to appear in Richmond, B.C., with members of his caucus. The party's parliamentary group grew to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, where U.S. President Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech. The theme of the meeting this year is "Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all." Carney — who has emerged in recent weeks as a key global...
Sitting in their archive in Lafayette, Louisiana, Barbara Dejean and Stephanie Simon first heard about a change in Canada's citizenship rules in December, when they read an online news story. Then the calls started coming in.
The Liberal government moved Monday to impose new conditions on a contentious part of the Canada Labour Code that's been used to quash high-profile labour disputes in recent years. Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said the proposed changes will put a "higher bar" on Ottawa's ability to scuttle strikes, but labour leaders argue the legislation would instead roll back workers' rights...
The federal Conservative party is being criticized over its decision to appoint a candidate for an upcoming byelection, instead of holding a nomination contest. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre surprised many when he announced at a rally on Sunday that Brantford Mayor Kevin Davis will be the party's candidate in Brantford-Brant South.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes moved Wednesday to a courtroom in the nation's capital, where a judge is hearing arguments on whether the president's move banning three news organizations from White House grounds violates the Constitution.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for a state visit in 2015, he sought to calm the growing unease among the Americans about his country's rapid ascent.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes moves Wednesday to a courtroom in the nation's capital, where a judge will hear arguments on whether the president's move banning three news organizations from White House grounds violates the Constitution.
When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on Wednesday, he's expected to get a rare greeting from President Donald Trump, who'll be on the tarmac to welcome his counterpart's plane instead of waiting for him to drive up to the White House. Trump's decision to greet Xi shows how far the U.S. president is going to honor China's leader...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to close out his time at the United Nations General Assembly by reuniting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for an event to build collaboration around ocean observation. The OceanEye International Alliance event will bring together other leaders, civil society partners and UN organizations to build a network to observe and share...
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians and offering to expand an RCMP training mission of local police in the West Bank to include Gaza, when conditions allow. Speaking on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Carney said Canada remains focused on helping create a Palestinian country that...
Canada has contributed to dozens of aid projects in the Palestinian territories that have since been damaged or destroyed by the Israeli military and Israeli settlers, according to a document tabled Monday in Parliament. "We're complicit and I just I can't stand it," said NDP MP Heather McPherson. "These are schools. These are water projects. These are roads. These are...
U.S. President Donald Trump defended his war against Iran before the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, claiming that "while others have talked, I have acted." "While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world," Trump said in his speech. The theme of the General Assembly...
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, where U.S. President Donald Trump is set to deliver a speech. The theme of the meeting this year is "Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all." Carney — who has emerged in recent weeks as a key global...
As prospective Canadian homebuyers and renters struggle to gain a foothold in one of the least-affordable housing markets in the developed world, housing affordability has become one of the top concerns across the country. Canada’s housing crisis is largely a function of burdensome municipal rules that constrain supply and inflate prices. Meanwhile, misaligned incentives constrain local officials’ willingness to make...
When Xi Jinping’s plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews this week, Donald Trump intends to be there to meet it. Protocol dictates that American presidents do not usually greet foreign leaders at the airport; they receive them at the White House. The last exception occurred when President Barack Obama met Pope Francis at Andrews in 2015. The unusual gesture...
Section 7 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the right to “life, liberty and security of the person,” which is not to be deprived unless doing so is consistent with “the principles of fundamental justice.” This simple provision has spawned an elaborate body of legal rules that now shapes policymaking across Canada. Topics as charged as prostitution (Canada...
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The RCMP commissioner has warned the Carney government that proposed reductions in security measures for the modernization of the official residence at 24 Sussex Drive will “result in an increased overall security risk,” says an internal document. The RCMP has been meeting with senior government officials since 2025 to discuss trimming the estimated bill for hardening the property against attacks...
At Carney’s invitation, the world’s biggest institutional investors are arriving in Toronto to look over opportunities to invest in Canada — opportunities that may not yet be ripe for their taste. About 300 chief executives and senior managers gather Monday evening and Tuesday at the Four Seasons in Toronto. Between them they manage $120 trillion in assets, fifty times the...
Courage, his mother told him. And his mother was right. We will need to repeat that to ourselves — a hazy memory of a Bertolt Brecht play — to face President Trump’s aggression. There will be lulls, perhaps a truce. Do not dream of a lasting peace. The American king’s escalating demands would have made Canada his vassal. Mark Carney...
In this episode of On The Line, Jen Gerson checks in with Greenland and Europe. Canadians seem increasingly open to closer ties with non-U.S. Western allies — but what do those allies think about us?
With Althia in sick bay with the vicious cold that seems to be going around, Andrew MacDougall joins Rob Russo for the latest Reporter's Notebook. While Andrew writes the occasional opinion piece, he's not really a reporter -- but he sure knows the business from his time as Comms Director for Stephen Harper. These days he's based in London, England...
From Wall Street to the White House to fellow podcaster on The Rest Is Politics: US, Anthony is out with his new book, All the Wrong Moves. He argues that three catastrophic decisions — China's admission to the WTO, the bailout of Wall Street after 2008, and the deficit-financed invasion of Iraq — set the stage for Donald Trump.
There’s no such thing as “associate membership” in the European Union and nobody knows what it means, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s proposal for it has proven to be a dazzling distraction as he flounders in a trade war with the U.S. Brian talks this week with Anand Menon, an EU studies specialist based in England, and Carlo Dade, international...
