Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries have descended on a luxury mountain lodge nestled in Canada’s Rockies for this year’s G7 summit. The elite gathering comes as Western allies face numerous crises, from conflicts on three continents to global economic instability. Canada chairs the G7 this...
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...
Oh, my GAWD -this is getting so good. I mean, to the point where there’s no ‘Republic of Alberta…YET,‘ good. The morning after the country went to the polls, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith laid down the law to newly elected Canadian Prime Minister and WEF/Davos climate cult toadie Mark Carney that she – meaning Alberta...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the White House on Tuesday amid US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threat to make Canada the 51st US state. Carney kept his cool, flattered Trump and repeated that Canada is not for sale. The BBC’s Jake Kwon analyses how both leaders got their points across, with some jokes...
If Donald Trump offered a deal to sell Detroit or Chicago to Canada, most Americans would rightly recoil. Sure, conservatives would muse about what a boon it would be to dump some of our problem children on somebody else–the greater fool theory–but when push comes to shove, most of us do believe in “America First.”...
Mark Carney has told Donald Trump that Canada “is not for sale” as the president raised the prospect of the country becoming the 51st US state while welcoming the prime minister to the White House. Carney won election last month promising to “stand up” to Trump, who has imposed tariffs on some Canadian products and...
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...
Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet soon with US President Donald Trump The victory-party din for Mark Carney and his Liberal Party had only just faded when Donald Trump chimed in with a less than ringing endorsement of the winners. “It was the one that...
Shiver me timbers – that didn’t take long. The Canadian elections were held on Monday, and the anointed and appointed Prime Minister, liberal Mark Carney, was able to grab the mantle of legitimacy with his win over the snake-bit conservatives and their leader, Pierre Poilievre. He is one happenin’ dude for a stuffed-shirt WEF banker....
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...
The global significance of Mark Carney’s election as Canadian Prime Minister is he now sits at the centre of an alternative pole of global economic thinking. Everything but Trump. There was a half expectation here that Carney would immediately sue for peace with President Trump when the polls closed on the election. It has emphatically...
Tom Geoghegan and James FitzGerald BBC News Watch: Liberal Party wins – how Canada’s election night unfolded Mark Carney will return to the Canadian parliament with a strengthened mandate, after his Liberal Party triumphed in a snap election that he called soon after becoming prime minister. Although one of his most pressing tasks is to...
Jessica Murphy & Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News Bernd Debusmann BBC News Reporting fromWashington DC Watch: Defiance or diplomacy – how Canadians want to deal with Trump Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada’s old relationship with the United States, “based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is...