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Prime Minister Mark Carney announces he expects to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in South Korea this week.
October 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The Globe and Mail in Beijing:

The lure of China:

What Carney hopes to gain from a Canadian reset with Beijing

theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The Globe in Beijing:

The lure of China:

What Carney hopes to gain from a Canadian reset with Beijing

theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
October 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
As Mark Carney is praising Donald Trump for his accomplishments during his White House visit, the U.S. President interrupts, adding: "the merger of Canada and the United States."

"That wasn't where I was going," Mr. Carney continues.
October 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“My friend President Putin”
August 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Unfortunate name for a B&B on the Canada-U.S. border these days
July 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Carney asked why he has failed to deliver a deal with Trump even after scrapping the Digital Sales Tax.
"We are in the midst of long and tough negotiations," he says.
PM notes Canada receives exemption from U.S. tariffs for all goods traded in compliance w/ United States Mexico Canada Agreement.
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Mark Carney warns Donald Trump's tariff wall against foreign steel will disproportionately hurt Canada. "Canada will be one of the countries most impacted by these developments," he tells a news conference in Hamilton.
July 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Excerpt from Canadian Press pool report on Mark Carney flipping pancakes at Stampede. I had forgotten about the Galloping Gourmet.
July 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
China to Dalai Lama: your reincarnation must be approved by Beijing (from the New York Times)
July 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Asked whether he feels the United States’ airstrikes on Iran violate international law, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tehran’s sponsorship of terrorism, of Hezbollah, of Hamas, violated international law.
June 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney asked if he feels more at home in Brussels, de facto capital of the European Union, than in Washington. He avoids a direct answer.
June 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney calls Canada “the most European of the non-European countries” as he signs Security and Defence Partnership agreement to deepen ties with EU in Brussels.
June 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Globe and Mail website from 25 years ago when it launched. See Matthew Ingram’s post www.linkedin.com/pulse/twenty...
June 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“My son! My son!” The grief is raw on this particularly poignant grave marker at Antwerp Schoonselhof Military Cemetery, where 348 Canadian soldiers are buried. Prime Minister Mark Carney visited June 23.
June 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney visits the Antwerp Schoonselhof Military Cemetery where 348 Canadian soldiers are buried.
June 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Prime Minister told reporters he understands why the U.S. President had to quit the G7 summit early. “I am very grateful for the president’s presence and I fully understand why he is leaving,” Mr. Carney said of Mr. Trump’s departure.
June 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Donald Trump arrives for G7 in Canada
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Prime Minister Mark Carney lands in Calgary as he prepares to host G7 in Kananaskis.
June 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The new Great Seal of Canada -- used to authenticate official documents -- no longer features image of the country's monarch. Simply a crown.
The previous, from 1952, featured Elizabeth II.
Ottawa said Thursday that from now on it's only revising outer ring when monarchs change.
June 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Canadian Department of National Defence spending projection chart from 2024 budget
June 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
June 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The March fiscal monitor shows Canada collected $617-M more in customs duties than it did last year, which is presumably how much Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. reaped over the first month.
June 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The March fiscal monitor shows Canada collected $623-M more in customs duties than it did last year, which is presumably how much Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. reaped over the first month.
June 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Worth noting:
Scheer's Conservatives opened Question Period w/ a strange assertion that the Carney gov't flatly rejected weeks ago: that counter-tariffs on U.S. imports have 'secretly' been cut to zero.
Ottawa says 70% still in effect.
Next Fiscal Monitor will offer insight on tariff revenue.
May 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM