New Liberal Leader Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister Friday morning and have his first chance to put a new face on his government. Cabinet making is a delicate balance that must reflect regional considerations, and most recently gender, religion, ethnicity, while also signalling the focus of the new government. Here are six things to...
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Incoming prime minister Mark Carney will take his first official trip abroad next week to London and Paris, according to...
If a federal election were held today, 37% of Canadians would vote for the Conservative Party of Canada, while 37%...
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When prime minister-designate Mark Carney unveils his first ever front bench at Rideau Hall on Friday, it will be substantially...
A high stakes meeting between Canada and the U.S. Thursday ended without any agreement on removing the tariffs, but Ontario...
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The advance word on Mark Carney’s entry into Canadian politics was that he would run as an aloof technocrat. While...
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So Mark Carney will be Canada’s next prime minister, until an election. Pierre Poilievre has been measuring drapes for a...
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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His party and most of its senior members will remain the same people who have dragged the country to such...
Donald Trump has scrambled the playing board and rewritten the ballot question. Into this unprecedented moment, enter Mark Carney. In...
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OTTAWA -- Mark Carney will be sworn in officially as prime minister and reveal the makeup of his first cabinet...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians are great and shouldn’t change, in a final message posted from his office on...
Mark Carney says his unique resume makes him the right man to lead Canada during this tumultuous time. Facing steep...
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The federal government is not considering dropping tariffs it imposed last year on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), steel and aluminum...
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Canadian MP Jamil Jivani went to Yale Law School with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, read a Bible verse at his...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney will be be sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister on Friday, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s...
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Opposition parties, some Liberal MPs critical of Marco Mendicino's new role. Both the Conservatives and NDP are criticizing prime minister-designate...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford was spending Wednesday meeting with Canada's incoming prime minister and speaking to his fellow premiers ahead...
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he's ready to start the process...
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- A preliminary economic agreement between Ukraine and the United States would ensure long-term U.S. involvement in...
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Canada’s best known school system founder Egerton Ryerson and the United States’ Horace Mann are each towering figures in the...
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On Wednesday, Trump imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, with Canada hitting back with counter levies on nearly $3...
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken the next step in its tariff battle with the world, placing a 25% tariff...
