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The Middle East has changed. Canada needs to catch up

The Middle East has changed. Canada needs to catch up

OTTAWA—Israel and the United States have now spent more than eight months in conflict with Iran. What does it mean for Canada? ... To keep reading,...

15.10.2026 20

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Gaza is testing Canada’s moral compass, and Carney’s credibility

OTTAWA—The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and the wavering response of Canadian political leaders is a compelling case study of our...

08.10.2026 10

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If Carney wants strategic autonomy, why is Canada still building around Europe?

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney says the old international order is over. Canada can no longer depend on a single power, he argues, and must...

06.10.2026 30

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Canada needs a South America strategy, not just a trade agenda

Prime Minister Mark Carney is now starting to court commercial deals outside of Europe. That’s a good thing. From Aug. 25 to 30, International Trade...

28.09.2026 10

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The politics behind Carney’s rush to build

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney has two speeches these days. Both share the same theme: urgency. One tells us we have to move fast against...

24.09.2026 40

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The audience has changed. Pierre Poilievre has not

OTTAWA—In the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, power rarely disappears when its legitimacy ends. It lingers, performing itself long after its...

15.09.2026 40

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Carney’s trillion-dollar pitch is being built on borrowed risk

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney now has a new team to attract foreign capital to Canada. Dominic Barton, former ambassador to China and c... To...

10.09.2026 30

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Carney’s tariff problem isn’t Trump’s, it’s Canada’s

Most Canadians read the end of the Aug. 21 tariff talks as negotiations crumpling at the last minute. But Ottawa had already been shown, by United...

26.08.2026 20

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Carney’s summit for CEOs has a guest list problem

OTTAWA—There is a long-held principle by the Haudenosaunee that any major decision should be weighed by its impact seven generations into the...

20.08.2026 40

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Upcoming byelections and extractive politics

OTTAWA—On the surface, the Aug. 31 federal byelections look like regular democratic business: three seats vacated, three writs issued. The real...

12.08.2026 30

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Dane Lloyd’s challenge and a Conservative answer to separatism

OTTAWA— On Oct. 19, Albertans will not vote to leave Canada. They will answer a much narrower question: whether the province should begin the legal...

20.07.2026 20

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The Faustian bargain behind Carney’s pipeline politics

Every bargain carries a price the signer hasn't yet read. That is the lesson of the legendary Faust, and it is now written into Canadian energy...

15.07.2026 30

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CUSMA tears up Canada’s bilateral trade assumptions

24.06.2026 30

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Carney should speak up on Cuba

15.06.2026 20

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Canada’s foreign policy lacks doctrine

OTTAWA— Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand’s recent convening of Canada’s top diplomats to consolidate Ottawa’s foreign policy into a... To...

04.06.2026 30

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Carney’s ‘scale and speed’ approach misses the bigger picture

OTTAWA—Buried inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s press release ahead of his May 27 trip... To keep reading, subscribe and become a political...

26.05.2026 30

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Why Alberta separatism gets treated with kid gloves

OTTAWA—Alberta separatists insist their beef is about the Prairies, pipelines, and equalization payments. But beneath the constitutional language...

20.05.2026 30

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Carney’s governing philosophy takes clearer shape in Arbour appointment

OTTAWA—On the surface, the appointment of Louise Arbour as governor general appears conventional: experienced, credible, reassuring at a moment of...

11.05.2026 40

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The institutional politics of Carney’s defence bank

OTTAWA—Riding a narrative of restored competence, Prime Minister Mark Carney is advancing a new centrepiece of his agenda: To keep reading,...

06.05.2026 30

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Carney’s $1-trillion foreign investment wager

30.04.2026 80

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Can Carney hold the line in a 2026 CUSMA showdown?

OTTAWA—With the federal budget all settled, Prime Minister Mark Carney heads into 2026 under intense pressure to resolve the trade dilemmas with the...

20.04.2026 50

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Avi Lewis takes on NDP’s electability crisis

OTTAWA—For years, federal New Democrats have told themselves that the party’s decline could be reversed with better messaging, sharper branding,...

30.03.2026 40

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Carney’s trade agenda is necessary, but not enough

26.03.2026 70

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Carney’s contradictions: from Davos to New Delhi

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04.03.2026 50

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Jobs, guns, and the GDP: selling defence as economic policy

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01.03.2026 50

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Poilievre’s next hurdle: winning broader support

02.02.2026 50

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On China, Carney practices statecraft

14.01.2026 80

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Maduro, Trump, and the politics of timing

09.01.2026 50

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The NDP leadership race might be sleepwalking to irrelevance

18.12.2025 50

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Can Carney hold the line in a 2026 CUSMA showdown?

04.12.2025 50

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Pierre Poilievre and the exhaustion of populism

20.11.2025 50

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Carney’s budget challenge: govern for the many, or manage for the few?

31.10.2025 50

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Anita Anand’s India challenge: engage without enabling

14.10.2025 50

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The challenge around AI is simple: anchor policy in public purpose

01.10.2025 60

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Canada needs a South America strategy, not just a trade agenda

02.09.2025 40

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No place for Poilievre’s old politics against Liberal centre-right pivot

21.08.2025 40

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Carney’s trade talks demand transparency

12.08.2025 50

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