Transition process to replace Justin Trudeau is quietly underway

Far from the political spotlight and prying eyes, the process has already begun. When the next Liberal leader is announced on March 9, it will mark the end of the leadership campaign triggered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to...

Mar 5, 2025 | News

Trump defends his trade war. But an ally hints at de-escalation

On the day he launched a trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump defended tariffs in a speech to Congress and prepared his nation for a period of upheaval. He did not sound like a man looking to de-escalate. But away...

Mar 5, 2025 | News

Trump wants to go back to 1913. Canadians and Americans will suffer the consequences

Canadians have taken Donald Trump’s threats of trade action — now realized — very personally. Understandably and justifiably so. But the American president’s treatment of Ukraine — not to mention his administration’s larger withholding of foreign aid — demonstrates that Canada is...

Mar 5, 2025 | News

Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he’d run a deficit to ‘invest and grow’ Canada’s...

Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney confirmed Sunday that a federal government led by him would run a deficit “to invest and grow” Canada’s economy, but it would also balance its operational spending over the next three years. Carney, a former...

Feb 17, 2025 | News

Internal federal government report warned U.S. claims about a crisis at the border could affect...

about the security of the Canada-U.S. border could lead to a thickening of the 49th parallel, adversely affecting trade and travel. The report, written by a diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Washington, said that failing to refute U.S. claims about...

Feb 17, 2025 | News

Trump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagree

U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that his country subsidizes Canada with hundreds of billions of dollars every year has become a key plank in his argument for annexing the country. But do his numbers add up? His argument hinges on a belief that...

Feb 17, 2025 | News

Poilievre repudiates Trump’s 51st state threats, pitches new policies at ‘Canada First’ rally

Surrounded by hundreds of supporters wearing red and white, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre firmly repudiated U.S. President Donald Trump’s 51st state threats and said Canada “will bear any burden” to protect its sovereignty during a rally in Ottawa. “Sometimes it...

Feb 17, 2025 | News

Allies appear to duck and cover as Trump threatens Canada and Greenland

Whenever we talk about NATO it’s usually in the context of money — or the famous all-for-one, one-for-all treaty clause known as Article 5. The provision is the bedrock of the Western military alliance, allowing leaders from Latvia to London...

Feb 17, 2025 | News

Foreign interference report is just the start of a conversation about Canadian democracy

The sensational foreign-interference saga that gripped Parliament Hill off and on for two years came to an unofficial end last month with the release of Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s final report. And between her relatively anticlimactic conclusion there are no “traitors” in...

Feb 17, 2025 | News

Former senior Mountie Kevin Brosseau appointed as Canada’s fentanyl czar

The federal government appointed former Mountie Kevin Brosseau as Canada’s new “fentanyl czar” on Tuesday — a role created in part to soothe U.S. President Donald Trump’s concerns about the northern border and pause a developing trade war. As the government’s...

Feb 12, 2025 | News