National Newswatch

Abbas Rana

Carney Liberals reach out to prominent Tories and New Democrats to recruit ‘star’ candidates for next election

Sources told The Hill Times that Priti Obhrai-Martin, daughter of the late Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai, is seeking the Liberal nomination in Calgary East, Alta., the same riding her father represented as a Conservative for nearly two decades. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his senior campaign team are reaching out to prominent Conservatives and New Democrats to recruit high-profile candidates...

David Coletto

Conservative lead down to 4 as Liberals reach highest vote share since August 2021

From March 10 to 12, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 1,700 Canadian adults online asking our core federal political tracking questions...

Stephanie Ha

New finance minister won’t detail on how budget will be balanced while being a ‘hawk’ on spending

Newly minted Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne could not detail how the federal government under new Prime Minister Mark Carney will...

Anja Karadeglija

Carney orders review of F-35 fighter jet purchase from U.S.'s Lockheed Martin

Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked for a review of Canada's plan to purchase a fleet of F-35 fighter jets...

Sophia Harris

Canada's counter-tariffs are hurting small businesses. Even so, many still support them

Troyhann Santos checks the federal government's latest list of counter-tariffs and makes a crushing discovery. Starting immediately, she'll have to...

Polls

David Coletto

Conservative lead down to 4 as Liberals reach highest vote share since August 2021

From March 10 to 12, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 1,700 Canadian adults online asking our core federal political tracking questions...

LPC 41%, CPC 39%, NDP 8%, BQ 6%

This federal poll was fielded by Mainstreet Research in March 2025, with a middle field date of March 12, 2025...

Opinion

Andrew Tumilty

Pierre Poilievre has a bigger problem than Mark Carney. Much bigger

If Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives lose the next federal election, it will not be because the Liberals changed leaders...

Susan Delacourt

Why doesn’t Mark Carney have a gender-balanced cabinet? Because it’s 2025

New prime minister Mark Carney didn’t go out of his way to be a champion for women with his cabinet...

News

Alex Boyd

Jordan Peterson’s free speech ideology drew them to his online academy. Then they were expelled for speaking out

The chatter had the energy of a freshman dorm during the first week of classes — just with a lot...

Craig Lord

End of federal tax holiday in February expected to lift inflation: economists

Economists are expecting the annual rate of inflation accelerated in February as the federal government's temporary tax break came to...

Politician's Pen

Terry Beech

The State of Service Report

Our government created the Citizens’ Services portfolio in 2023 to champion service delivery excellence and to improve government efficiency. This...

Patrick Brown

Why we shouldn’t boo the American anthem

It’s understandable that Canadians are angry. With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the United States has...

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Shannon Proudfoot

No hugs or sunny ways here. Carney’s government is a lean, mean trade-war machine

Nobody got any hugs this time. Perhaps you, like me, thought you remembered the sunny-ways stroll up the Rideau Hall...

Lisa Van Dusen

Dear America: It’s Not You, It’s Him

First off, full disclosure: I love America. I’ve loved America since I was a scruffy kid watching old Jimmy Cagney...

Lorrie Goldstein

Liberal media jump on board 'Team Carney' campaign

Let’s begun by debunking the myth – aided and abetted by the liberal media – that Prime Minister Mark Carney...

Deveryn Ross

Take the threats seriously

Some of Canada’s European G7 counterparts think the United States isn’t serious about making Canada America’s 51st state. In remarks...

David Coletto

Carney vs. Poilievre: Unpacking Public Perceptions

Canada is on the cusp of a federal election featuring two relatively fresh faces: Prime Minister Mark Carney, newly at...

Political Pulse Panel

Political Pulse Panel: PM Carney and cabinet sworn in with election campaign likely days away

The Political Pulse Panel discusses Day 1 of Mark Carney as Canada's 24th prime minister.

Aaron Wherry

Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to turn the page

There were far fewer hugs than in 2015. The 23rd prime minister was a hugger — possibly the huggiest in...

Stephen Maher

This is the signal Mark Carney is sending with his cabinet picks

Mark Carney set a dramatically different tone as he took over from Justin Trudeau on Friday, swearing in the smallest...

Max Fawcett

Pierre Poilievre might have punched himself out

The legendary 1974 heavyweight fight between an aging Muhammad Ali and the unbeaten (and seemingly unbeatable) world champion George Foreman...

John Delacourt

Getting Past ‘Thursday’: Team Carney Braces for the Battles Ahead

In one of his last press conferences, outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau was asked, by the Toronto Star’s Tonda MacCharles, how...

Jillian Horton

There’s no Pierre Poilievre without Justin Trudeau. That’s why the Conservative Leader seems broken

Rick Salutin

We’re living in the church of Musk and Trump. And Mark Carney seems to know exactly where he stands

The Liberals have made it official. They went with the banker, who also did, in the sense that he didn’t...

Andrew Coyne

Canada’s unprecedented election will turn on this question: Who can be the best leader?

John Ivison

An allegedly secret foreign deal limiting Canadian propane exports could leave us all poorer

B.C. First Nations claim betrayal, bad-faith bargaining and a propane monopoly that lets a foreign company cap Canada's export potential...

Peter Donolo

Trump’s tariffs have launched a rare moment of Canadian consensus. We shouldn’t waste it

“There go the people,” the 19th-century French radical Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin is reputed to have said. “I must follow them...

Lawrence Martin

Team Canada is giving Trump a beating in the tariff war

So far, David is bashing Goliath. In round one of his gratuitous, greed-driven tariff war, the intrinsically mendacious Donald Trump...

Dale Smith

Trudeau’s allyship was at the forefront of his term. How will Carney follow?

On Aug. 4, 2015, then third-party leader Justin Trudeau was flying to Vancouver to attend the Pride parade when Stephen...

Konrad Yakabuski

Donald Trump has deprived Quebec sovereigntists of their strongest argument

Quebec sovereigntists have always been among the strongest supporters of continental free trade. Under Jacques Parizeau, the Parti Québécois backed...

Don Lenihan

Trump’s Trade War is Just Round 1: The Battle Ahead is about AI and Democracy

Allan Gregg

Poilievre and Carney have been dealt new hands. Here’s how they should play them

Professional gamblers accept that you play with the cards you are dealt. That maxim, of course, dictates that you can’t...

Andrew Coyne

Enter Carney: The button-down central banker shows he’s not above a little Yankee-bashing and kneecapping his opponent

The advance word on Mark Carney’s entry into Canadian politics was that he would run as an aloof technocrat. While...

Mark McQueen

Carney seems to be following another Liberal’s roadmap — and it’s a cynical one

If prime minister-designate Mark Carney is looking for a roadmap to victory in the upcoming election, he could do worse...

Christopher Holcroft

Canada Is in a Fight for Its Life

Trump attacks from outside and the right undermines from within. Here’s what’s needed. In a dramatically and newly uncertain world...

Marsha Lederman

Chrystia Freeland’s low Liberal support doesn’t tell the whole story

Erica Ifill

Mid Mark Carney may not meet the moment

The new Liberal leader is a component of the technocratic elite who got us into this mess of inequality. The...

Bruce Arthur

When it comes to dealing with Donald Trump, Pierre Poilievre sounds like yesterday’s man

So Mark Carney will be Canada’s next prime minister, until an election. Pierre Poilievre has been measuring drapes for a...

Tasha Kheiriddin

Carney's boomer bet could go bust

It’s official: Mark Carney has won the prize of prime minister. Now, he must figure out how to keep it...

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Arthur Milnes

Today in Canada's Political History - March 16, 1965: Happy birthday Prime Minister Carney; It is time for your Kingston tree-planting!

It is a historic day here at Art’s History as I officially welcome the Right Honourable Mark Carney to the...

Benjamin Lopez Steven

Carney expected to meet King Charles during his first trip abroad as prime minister

PM will also meet with the French president in Paris, Nunavut premier in Iqaluit. Just days after being sworn into...

Stephen Collinson

Mark Carney and the backlash against backlash politics

Mark Carney has never been a politician. Yet now he’s sworn in as Canada’s new Prime Minister on Friday, he...

Jack Farrell

Premier Smith not sold on killing of consumer carbon tax, wants industrial levy plan

Despite calling for its demise for years, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she isn't phased by the new prime minister's...

Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert, Rob Russo

Good Talk -- Does Smaller Mean Better?

Day One of the Carney administration reveals a much smaller cabinet, almost half the size of previous ones of late...

Morgan Lowrie

King Charles signalling support for Canada as Trump talks annexation: royal watchers

A maple tree, a red dress and a ceremonial sword may seem like cold comfort for Canadians hoping to hear...

Geoff Nixon

Why Mark Carney is dropping both his Irish and U.K. passports

St. Patrick's Day may be just around the corner, but it seems Mark Carney can no longer truly claim to...

Elizabeth Thompson

Opposition parties slam Trudeau cabinet's future appointments to government agencies

88 appointments take effect after former prime minister stepped down. Prime Minister Mark Carney should review a series of future...

Benjamin Lopez Steven

As Trump attacks Canada, Downing Street sticks to the sidelines

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy says now is not the time for ‘unnecessary division.’ As U.S. President Donald Trump keeps...

Chuck Chiang

Eby responds to Alaskan senator's threat to have cruise ships bypass B.C. ports

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is standing firm behind the legislation granting the province the ability to levy...

Tonda MacCharles

Mark Carney’s first day as prime minister shows he’s got the bones of a plan to manage crisis

Mark Carney marked his debut as Canada’s 24th prime minister by killing the Trudeau-era consumer carbon tax, paring back his...

Murray Brewster

Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister

Canada is actively looking at potential alternatives to the U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighter and will hold conversations with rival aircraft...

Chuck Chiang

Eby announces ending of provincial carbon tax, after Carney kills federal version

British Columbia's government will follow through on its promise to repeal the province's consumer carbon tax after new Prime Minister...

Mike De Souza, Carl Meyer

Here’s where Canada’s new prime minister stands on the future of oil and gas

Montrealers lined up around the block on a chilly March evening as they waited to enter one of the final...

Sarah Ritchie

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government terminates consumer carbon price

Prime Minister Mark Carney's first move after taking office on Friday was to eliminate the consumer carbon price, undoing Justin...

Sarah Ritchie and Catherine Morrison

Carney says his government starts in a moment of crisis in Canada-U.S. relations

OTTAWA -- Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday...

Laura Osman

Carney is the best leader to navigate Trump chaos, says new poll

Liberal Leader Mark Carney has pulled ahead of the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre as Canadians’ chosen defender against U.S. President Donald...

Robert Benzie, Rob Ferguson

Doug Ford’s surcharge on exports of electricity to the U.S. remains on the table, sources say

The tone has changed, but the threats remain. While Doug Ford says “the temperature is being lowered” in the trade...

Neil Moss

Italy’s top diplomat says ‘not my job’ to condemn Trump’s annexation threats as Germany takes tougher stand

G7 foreign ministers were reluctant to directly condemn U.S. President Donald Trump over his threats to annex Canada.

Irem Koca

Trump’s pick for top diplomat in Ottawa ‘may be in trouble’ after Senate hearing, says former Canadian diplomat

Incoming U.S. envoy Pete Hoekstra will need to restore the trust between the two countries when 'his boss seems quite...

Here are the people making up Mark Carney's new Liberal cabinet

Prime Minister Mark Carney has named a 24-member cabinet, a team of ministers who will lead during the coming federal...

Sarah Ritchie, Catherine Morrison

Mark Carney sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister

Ottawa -- Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday...

Touria Izri

Joly says Europeans thought Trump’s annexation threat was a ‘joke’

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly gave a closing news conference at the G7 summit she hosted in Charlevoix, Que., Friday...

Rachel Aiello

Prime Minister Mark Carney vows to get ‘straight to work,’ hints election coming

Canada has a new prime minister, and on his first day with the new title Mark Carney is already signalling...

Sarah Ritchie, Catherine Morrison

Justin Trudeau has resigned as prime minister as Mark Carney gets set to take over

Justin Trudeau visited Gov. Gen. Mary Simon this morning and formally resigned as prime minister. Mark Carney will be sworn...

US Poli

Hannah Schoenbaum, Makiya Seminera And Thomas Beaumont, The Associated Press

Angst pervades a pair of Republican town halls - one in Trump country, the other in a swing state

EVANSTON, Wyo. (AP) -- In two congressional districts and vastly different political environments, two Republican congressmen were met with far...

Associated Press, The Associated Press

Trump signs a bill funding the government for 6 months, avoiding a shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending...

Joey Cappelletti, The Associated Press

Voters flood town halls with fears of Social Security cuts, putting heat on GOP over Musk and DOGE

One after another, callers on a telephone town hall with U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga pressed the Michigan Republican about possible...

Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press

Trump says he was being a 'bit sarcastic' when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that he was "being a little bit sarcastic" when...

International

Michelle L. Price, Lolita C. Baldor And Sam Magdy, The Associated Press

Trump orders strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump said he ordered a series of airstrikes on Yemen's capital, Sanaa...

Dylan Robertson

EU foreign policy chief says that global trade war works in China's interests

LA MALBAIE, Que. -- The European Union's foreign policy chief says tariffs between Western countries only serve China's interests and...

Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press

Columbia's Mahmoud Khalil felt he was being kidnapped as detention unfolded, lawyers say

NEW YORK (AP) -- Handcuffed and shackled, Mahmoud Khalil was rushed from New York to Louisiana last weekend in a...

Kremlin aide dismisses U.S.-Ukraine ceasefire proposal as Putin visits front line

Russia sees the temporary ceasefire suggested by the U.S. and Ukraine as little more than a chance for Kyiv's forces...

The Associated Press

Fire that damaged four Tesla Cybertrucks in Seattle under investigation

Seattle (AP) -- Seattle fire officials said a late Sunday fire that damaged four Tesla Cybertrucks is under investigation.

Think Tank

Jake Fuss

Removing internal trade barriers would help mitigate damage from Trump tariffs

Sahir Khan

Fixing the Fisc: Free Advice for Canada’s Next Prime Minister

For as long as Mark Carney is Canada’s new prime minister, and beyond that into the outcome of the upcoming...

Nigel Rawson, John Adams

Life on hold – How Canada’s drug approval delays endanger patients: Nigel S.B. Rawson and John Adams

Health care across Canada is in crisis. In addition to known burdens of disease and therapies, Canada’s processes have become...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Éric Blais

The Liberals' “Canada Strong” has the right sentiment, but their opponents might weaken it.

If that's the overarching theme of the campaign, 'Canada Strong' could be a slogan-sized blind spot for the Liberal campaign.

Dean Beeby

Peddling the medal - Brace for flurry of Coronation medal awards this month

Media stories about a royal medal have been popping up on news and social-media platforms in Canada lately. Expect more...

Éric Blais

Why Ford’s successful campaign was a failure

It’s called an election campaign for a reason. Even though its purpose is to secure votes, instead of purchases, it...