Canada chooses a leader to take on Trump Canadians vote on Monday to determine which political party forms their next government. But President Trump’s tariff assault on Canada and his vow to annex the country and make it the 51st state have turned the federal election into a referendum on which of the two contenders…
As Election Day in Canada looms on Monday, support for the two major parties has started to converge in the polls, yet the race appears to remain the Liberal Party’s to lose. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party now leads the Conservative Party 42 percent to 39 percent on average, according to the CBC’s poll…
Mark Carney flirted with Canadian politics even as he built a career overseas, rejecting offers to join cabinets at least twice. Then in January, President Trump, threatening tariffs and annexation against Canada, brewed a crisis that seemed tailor-made for one of the world’s most seasoned managers of economic turmoil. Within weeks, Mr. Carney was prime…
The melting Arctic icecap. Record-smashing wildfires across several provinces. A country that, on average, is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. And yet, as Canadians go to the polls Monday, climate change isn’t even among the top 10 issues for voters, according to recent polling. “That’s just not what this…
A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress. The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events…
Janet Robertson had few choices after being evicted from her apartment of two decades in Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive city. Even listings in nearby suburbs were out of reach after years of paying 900 Canadian dollars, or $650, monthly for her studio apartment. She kept going until she could find something she could afford and…
Mark Carney was just days away from announcing his bid to lead Canada’s Liberal Party in January when his face popped up on a viral right-wing Facebook page. Two photographs showed Mr. Carney, who became prime minister last month, at a garden party beside Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker and former confidante of the…
There’s a lot to discuss in Canada ahead of its April 28 election, including tariffs, inequality and President Trump’s threats to annex the country. But a political debate in Montreal on Wednesday night won’t have a prime time slot. That is because many Canadians would rather watch a hockey game that evening. A French-language debate…
Until late Thursday, it appeared that Prime Minister Mark Carney might finally make it through a week of the current election without pausing his campaign because of President Trump’s trade attacks on Canada. But instead of shaking hands and making announcements, he was back in Ottawa on Friday to chair a special meeting of the…
Though Canada’s election began in earnest only late last month, public opinion polls have captured a gripping political narrative that has been unfolding since the start of the year. Between President Trump’s trade war, his threats of annexation and the resignation of Canada’s last prime minister, a lot happened in the run-up to this race…