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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The latest Liaison Strategies Weekly Federal Tracker shows the Liberals leading the Conservatives by 14 points among decided and leaning voters, while the NDP has edged up to 15%. The Liberals are at 45%, up one point from last week, followed by the Conservatives at 31%, down one, and the NDP at 15%, up one. The Bloc Québécois is at...
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.
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...
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
There are, as Lenin apparently did not say, decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. This was one of those weeks: a remarkable series of policy and diplomatic moves that give unmistakable form to what until lately had been mostly rhetorical flourish. The Carney doctrine remains only partly visible, and may only be partly developed, but there’s no...
By suggesting that Canada could eventually become the first associate member of the European Union (EU), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed in her own way how much Europe wants closer, more ambitious, and more intense cooperation with Canada. At the same time, she stirred up concerns on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the early days of the world’s stupidest trade war, outsiders seemed impressed, amused and somehow surprised when Canada pushed back by yanking American booze from our stores, booing The Star-Spangled Banner and dishing out retaliatory tariffs. The same punchline kept surfacing online and among late-night TV hosts: “Do you know how obnoxious you have to be to tick off...
The Canadian prime minister is once again on the road, this time taking in some footie alongside new U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham and, more importantly, playing footsie with the European Union in the form of a possible “associate membership.” Now, I’m here from the future to warn you that nothing will happen very quickly, if at all, with this...
Trust U.S. President Donald Trump to prove Mark Carney’s point even before Carney made it. The prime minister hadn’t yet laid out his vision of greater co-operation with Europe to the European Parliament and Trump was already out trashing the idea as “laughable” and threatening yet more tariffs if he didn’t like the outcome. A year ago I expect that...
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...
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...
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.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won't change his mind about his decision to eliminate the digital services tax and Canadian content contributions for streamers. Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet asked Carney in the House of Commons today whether he'll reconsider those decisions after they failed to secure progress in trade talks with the United States. The digital services tax...
Prime Minister Mark Carney will miss an event at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday because of technical problems at a key regional air traffic control centre that halted operations at every major airport in the New York City area. Hundreds of flights were cancelled in the U.S. northeast after a key circuit failed at an air traffic facility...
Critics are calling out NDP Leader Avi Lewis for suggesting online that he and his fellow Jews have failed to do their part to stop Israel's carnage in the Gaza Strip. Lewis posted Sunday that he is marking the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, by reflecting on geopolitics. He wrote that this reflection includes his view that...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government tabled a sweeping bill Monday meant to fast-track approvals for major projects, cut their review times and create zones of "national interest" to pre-approve certain types of projects. Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act, is also proposing major changes to collective bargaining, including the use of more federal mediation to get deals done and...
After weeks of defections, expulsions and ugly infighting that reduced the British Columbia Conservative caucus by more than a third, the official Opposition's legislative ranks are growing again. The party's new interim leader, Lorne Doerkson -- who was appointed Sunday after the resignation of Kerry-Lynne Findlay -- has moved swiftly to restore five legislators to the caucus amid the prospect...
B.C. cabinet minister Lana Popham says she won't run for a sixth term, deepening speculation about a snap election being called. Popham's announcement follows the resignation of Opposition B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay on Sunday. Popham, the current minister for agriculture, says in a written statement provided by the B.C. NDP caucus that her decision not to run again was...
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone to Prince William on Monday, a spokesperson for his office said. While the Prime Minister's Office shared no details of what was discussed, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said the heir to the throne and Canada's future head of state "discussed the enduring strength of the U.K.-Canada relationship" with Carney.
The caucus of British Columbia's governing NDP has met to discuss a potential early election after the resignation of Opposition B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Findlay quit Sunday, saying it was the right move for the party and province, and the Conservative board of directors appointed MLA Lorne Doerkson as interim leader hours later. But the Conservative constitution prohibits an...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, along with other politicians and police forces across Canada, have condemned antisemitic violence following a shooting that took place outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ont., on Sunday night.
CAE Inc. says it has secured a $300-million contract to continue training U.S. air force crews, even as U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to ban Canadian companies from government procurement. The Montreal-based flight simulator maker says the deal granted to its American defence division extends CAE's role as the main contractor schooling U.S. aircrews on the C-130 Hercules military...
U.S. President Donald Trump says the United States is working on a deal to buy potash from Belarus in a bid to reduce dependence on Canadian fertilizer. In a social media post Monday morning, Trump said prices would be "substantially less" than American buyers pay to Canadian exporters.
Mexico is planning to buy more goods from the United States and reduce imports from other nations as part of the review of the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. "The United States is asking for its so-called trade deficit to be reduced," Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.
Members of Parliament returned from their summer break Monday with trade tensions hanging over the country, a new but undefined alliance with Europe on the horizon, and a Liberal government ready to push an aggressive agenda to get major new infrastructure approved. Buoyed by strong polling numbers and a trio of recent byelection wins that saw him increase his majority...
Two people are critically injured, including a police officer, after a shooting outside a Belleville, Ont., synagogue Sunday night. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said a Belleville police officer was near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in the area of Victoria and Bleecker avenues at approximately 7 p.m. when there was an “exchange of gunfire” with a man who was...
NEW YORK (AP) -- On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, "You should not be here."
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to a spokesperson for the man's attorney.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they've notified President Donald Trump's administration that they're filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access. Reporters from the three major news organizations were blocked from the White House on Saturday, a day after Trump said he was barring them because of reporting he found to be "fake news."
As Kamala Harris mulls whether to run for president again, she's throwing herself into the midterms by campaigning with fellow Democrats, starting with a Tuesday trip to Michigan on behalf of Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
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...
Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone to Prince William on Monday, a spokesperson for his office said. While the Prime Minister's Office shared no details of what was discussed, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said the heir to the throne and Canada's future head of state "discussed the enduring strength of the U.K.-Canada relationship" with Carney.
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...
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...
Alberta's unlikeliest duo is teaming up to make their case to Albertans ahead of the October 19 referendum. Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney, both from opposite sides of the political aisle have joined forces with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to propel their campaign, 'Alberta and Canada: Stronger Together' into the hearts and minds of concerned Albertans.
There's a lot of talk about war, especially in countries located close to Russia, but does talk mean ready? That's the discussion today with Dr. Janice Stein of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, in the latest of her regular Monday discussions right here on The Bridge.
David Herle, Scott Reid, Jordan Leichnitz, and Kory Teneycke provide insights on the latest in Canadian politics.
