Canada’s banker-turned-prime-minister pulled off a political miracle, leading his party from polling abyss to a rare fourth term in power, and securing the top government job after entering electoral politics just three months ago. Mark Carney, the country’s new leader, told Canadians that he was the right person to stand up to President Trump and…
As Canadians prepare to vote on 28 April, their national election is drawing unexpected international attention—and controversy. While China’s covert influence in Canada has been a topic of discussion for years, India is now being mentioned in the same breath. But does this comparison hold water? Let’s separate fact from fiction. China’s Long Shadow in…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, ahead in polls in the run-up to an April 28 election, renewed calls on Monday for voters to give him a strong mandate to deal with US President Donald Trump’s tariff threat. Carney says Trump’s tariffs and talk of annexation pose a huge threat and mean that Canada needs to…
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…
Two main architects of protests that gridlocked Canada’s capital for weeks were found guilty on Thursday in one of the last legal cases stemming from the demonstrations that convulsed the country and disrupted billions of dollars in trade with the United States. A judge convicted the protest’s top organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, in…
With a trade war brewing, President Trump gave the Mexican president a sign of grudging respect: “You’re tough,” he told her in a phone call last month, according to four people with knowledge of the exchange. By their most recent conversation, the two leaders were trading compliments and carving out a reprieve from some tariffs…
It was not even three months ago when it seemed like Canadians couldn’t wait for an end to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s nearly decade-long stint as their leader. On Jan. 6, he announced his intention to step down with polls showing most Canadians deeply unhappy with the state of their country. But as Mr. Trudeau,…
Mark Carney, Canada’s soon-to-be prime minister, weathered two era-defining implosions in his career as a central banker: the 2008 global financial crisis and Brexit. He has dealt with political chaos, societal upheaval and economic meltdown. Now he faces what is arguably the challenge of a lifetime: Donald J. Trump. Can Mr. Carney negotiate with Mr….
Mark Carney, a 59-year-old Harvard graduate and former central banker with no prior experience in public office, has been appointed as Justin Trudeau’s successor, becoming Canada’s next Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Party. Amid ongoing tensions between Canada and the U.S., Carney has frequently criticized Donald Trump, at one point even likening…
Amid a generational crisis in Canada’s relationship with the United States, the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday chose an unelected technocrat with deep experience in financial markets to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader and the country’s prime minister, and to take on President Trump. Mark Carney, 59, who steered the Bank of Canada…