For just $61 billion, Canada can get in on Donald Trump’s latest scheme: a space-based North American missile defense system that Trump has called the “Golden Dome.” Trump posted the amount of money he would expect Canada to pay on his Truth Social account on May 27 — the same day that King Charles was...
Watch: Borders, diversity and the US: Key highlights from the King’s speech in Canada In Speech to the Throne delivered by King Charles, Canada sought to define its place in an uncertain world and its relationship to the US. It also laid out priorities for Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose Liberals won the...
In his first news conference after winning the Canadian elections last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out his incoming government’s plans to tackle a “once-in-a-lifetime crisis” with the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs on Canadian goods and repeated threats to annex Canada helped propel Carney’s Liberal Party to victory in the...
Reuters Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled a new team, promising “decisive action” on his ambitious economic agenda – amid a trade war with the US and President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks undermining Canada’s sovereignty. The new cabinet of 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state marks some significant changes, including a new foreign...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will head to Washington for his first in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday. The visit comes at a critical moment, with high-stakes issues on the agenda. As Carney prepares for the encounter, the BBC’s Anthony Zurcher looks back at how other world leaders have fared in past...
Getty Images On Mark Carney’s final day of a gruelling race to be elected PM of vast and sparsely populated Canada I was with him. It was his last push, not just to win, but also to get the majority he said he needed to stand up to the chaotic territorial and trade ambitions of...
Reuters One of the biggest upsets of the night was Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre losing his own seat Conservatives in Canada are trading blame for Monday night’s election loss, showing that Pierre Poilievre will need to heal divisions within the movement as he fights to stay on as leader. As a clear Liberal win was...
AFP via Getty Images US President Donald Trump has called Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to congratulate him on his victory in the country’s general election and the two have agreed meet in the near future. The two countries were expected to enter talks about a new economic and security relationship after Monday’s vote. Trump’s...
Canada entered the 2025 federal election with a Liberal minority government and it emerged from the 2025 federal election with a Liberal minority government. The outcome is shocking, given that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had been riding the top of the polls since the end of 2023. Liberal leader Mark Carney now has a monumental...
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won the Canadian election. In his victory speech, Carney told supporters that “President Trump is trying to break” Canada so that “America can own” the country. In his concession speech, defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said “hard lessons” had been learned from the election. This is how the unprecedented election...
Getty Images Mark Carney and the Liberal Party have claimed a remarkable victory in the Canadian election – and it appears to have come with a big assist from Donald Trump. The US president’s constant badgering of America’s northern neighbour and taunts about making it the 51st US state since his return to office in...
Kathy Kettler Kathy Kettler (R) is the campaign manager for local liberal candidate Kilikvak Kabloona Nunavut is Canada’s largest federal district. The entire territory – all 1.8 million sq km (695,000 sq miles) and its 40,000 people – will be represented by one person in parliament. “Nunavut is at least three times the size of...
Jessica Murphy BBC News Reporting fromVaughan, Ontario Nadine Yousif BBC News Reporting fromCambridge and London, Ontario Getty Images At a rally in London, Ontario, on Friday, the crowd booed as Mark Carney delivered his core campaign line about the existential threat Canada faces from its neighbour. “President Trump is trying to break us so that...
Nadine Yousif Reporting fromCalgary and Lethbridge, Alberta Eloise Alanna/BBC News Lawyer and rancher Jeffrey Rath says Alberta should be an independent nation state, separate from Canada The threat to Canada’s sovereignty from US President Donald Trump has dominated the election campaign, but the country also faces a challenge from within. Some western Canadians, fed up...
Montreal, Canada — The United States has loomed large over Canada’s upcoming election, with concerns over President Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats dominating much of the campaign. But for many Canadians, another topic has also been front-of-mind in the lead-up to the vote on April 28: Israel’s war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip....