OTTAWA — Mark Carney may have been crowned leader of the Liberal party by casting himself as a political outsider, but his skills as a politician need work, say some of his supporters. Read More

Moments before the new Liberal leader was announced on Sunday, former prime minister Jean Chretien took to the stage to reprimand U.S. President Donald Trump over tariffs and threats to Canada's sovereignty. Read More

You can imagine that former prime minister Stephen Harper might be shaking his head somewhere, watching his non-partisan appointee for Bank of Canada governor move in to take up his new role. And you can imagine that all prime ministers will do what they can to keep the same thing from ever happening again. Read More

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney was elected leader of the Liberal party, and prime minister of Canada, at the Liberal Party's leadership convention with more than 85 per cent of the vote. Here is his victory speech in English, in full: Read More

We live in extraordinary geopolitical times. You could tell as much by watching the festivities Thursday evening, as the Liberals prepared to announce their new leader — who turned out to be Mark Carney, with a whopping 86 per cent of the first-ballot votes. The three others wasted $350,000 on entry fees for pretty much nothing, I’m afraid. Read More

Hundreds of people gathered on Parliament Hill for the "Elbows up, Canada" rally as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens economywide tariffs and making the country into the 51st state. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's daughter, sixteen-year-old Ella-Grace, introduced her father before his speech to Liberal party members on Sunday in what is likely to be his final speech in the job. Read More

Outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the Liberal leadership convention in Ottawa before the final votes were announced. Read the full text of the speech in English below: Read More

A plane with five people on board crashed Sunday afternoon outside an airport in suburban Pennsylvania, officials said. Read More

Air Force fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily restricted airspace near Donald Trump's Florida home Sunday, bringing the number of violations to more than 20 since the president took office on Jan. 20. Read More

The Liberal Party of Canada announced that Mark Carney won the leadership race on the first ballot, with more than 131,000 votes cast, at around 6:30 p.m. E.T. In second place was former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who received a little over 11,000 votes. Karina Gould received just under 4,800 votes and Frank Baylis received 4,038 votes. Read More

Israel will stop supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip, Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen said on Sunday. Read More

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signaled he doesn’t expect a reprieve on 25 per cent tariffs for steel and aluminum imports scheduled to take effect on Wednesday. Read More

If Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race on Sunday, would he succeed Justin Trudeau as the first prime minister to be sworn in without first having been elected? Read More

President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices, and isn't ruling out the possibility of a recession this year. Read More

An armed man believed to be traveling from Indiana was shot by U.S. Secret Service agents near the White House after a confrontation early Sunday, according to authorities. Read More

Donald Trump, the real estate developer turned commander in chief, is laying bare his style of diplomacy in the early weeks of his new term: It's a whole lot like a high-stakes business deal, and his No. 1 goal is to come out of the transaction on top. Read More

Canadian farmers could take a big hit from China's sudden retaliatory tariffs that take aim at canola, pork and other food commodities. Read More

Anyone following the on-again, off-again trade war between Canada and the U.S. will have seen potash mentioned among major Canadian exports to the U.S. subject to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs. Read More

“We are in a time of war. It may not be a shooting war, but it's an economic war,” says Kory Teneycke, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s re-election campaign director. “It's a trade war, and those are as big a threat to your sovereignty as the other kind.” Read More

A Grande Prairie trucker who repeatedly extorted and harassed a prostitute to get free sex has been sentenced to 12 months in jail and a year's probation. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal party members will crown a new leader and prime minister on Sunday while the country finds itself embroiled in a trade war with its closest ally and neighbour. Read More

Daylight savings time will make Justin Trudeau’s last day as Liberal party leader an hour shorter; his desired tenure has been abbreviated by much more than that. Once upon a time it was sunny ways. A delayed sunset is a fitting end for a prime minister who lingered in the spotlight too long. Read More

The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.” Read More

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Tehran will not be bullied by the United States over its nuclear program, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to the Iranians asking to negotiate a deal. Read More

The federal government has unveiled two major domestic shipbuilding contracts for new polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard to use in the Arctic. Read More

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she is “deeply troubled” by a mass shooting in the city’s east end that left 12 people injured, half of them with serious injuries. Read More

BEIJING — China has announced retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm and food imports, after Canada imposed duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products in October. Read More

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky has spent most of his life as the one person every Canadian could agree upon. Read More

While eight in ten Canadian women believe it's "easier" for women today than for women of past generations, more than one quarter (27 per cent) regularly experience gender-based discrimination, finds a new poll marking International Women's Day. Read More

For months, the Canadian commentariat has been seized with Pierre Poilievre’s chances in a Donald Trump world. Would a second Trump presidency hurt the Conservative leader, because people would see him Poilievre as an unwanted Trump-ian figure? Or might it actually benefit Poilievre, as Canadians tested the Liberals’ pathetically lazy framing of him as “Maple MAGA” against what he actually says and does, and realized how very stupid that framing is? Read More

One June day in 1996, three years after he became prime minister, Jean Chrétien made his way to a recreation centre in Fort McMurray, now the gritty northern Alberta heart of the oil sector, sitting atop the world's third-largest oil reserves. Read More

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Mark Carney, heir to the Canadian throne, such as it is, is indeed wrestling with a difficult problem in his 2021 book Value(s)  — or even a difficult set of problems. The title indicates as much (or, more accurately, the presumptuous subtitle): “Building a Better World for All.” We should first note in evaluating the quality of Carney’s thought (as we should, given his desire and likely opportunity to lead our fair land), that this is a very difficult set of nuts to crack: “building,” “better,” and “for all,” and that success in such a venture is tantamount to the actions of a veritable world redeemer or saviour. The question that then arises should then clearly be “is Mr. Carney up to such a task?” Our initial position with regard to that question should be one of extreme doubt and skepticism, given that very few, if any, have ever demonstrated such truly awe-inspiring ability. Read More

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OTTAWA — All eyes will be on Mark Carney on Sunday as the Liberal Party of Canada announces who will succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read More

Far be it from me to contradict our new De Facto Prime Minister at a time of national crisis, but why is Ontario Premier Doug Ford snivelling woundedly about polite Canadian demonstrations against the anthem of the United States? Honestly, it makes me want to buy a hockey ticket just for the opportunity to boo. Read More

Canada’s Arctic waters are particularly vulnerable to international trespassing for two major reasons. One: the ice is melting, opening up desirable lanes to the world. Two: Canada’s sovereignty over the region’s waterways is not respected on the global stage. We view the Northwest Passage as a Canadian seaway, while our neighbours — even the friendly ones, including the Bush and Obama administrations in the U.S. — view the passage as an international waterway. Read More