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Mark Carney’s strategy for the public service becomes clearer

Mark Carney’s strategy for the public service becomes clearer

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Pierre Poilievre and Joe Rogan talk a little bit about politics and so much about kettlebells

Pierre Poilievre and Joe Rogan talk a little bit about politics and so much about kettlebells

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20.03.2026 20

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He’s useful in a crisis – but is he any good at politics? A look at Mark Carney’s first year

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14.03.2026 20

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The thing everyone is talking about but no one is thinking about in Ottawa politics

14.02.2026 10

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In Harper’s homecoming, a mood of celebration and caution

04.02.2026 10

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It’s clear Carney is now dealing with the world ‘as it is’

17.01.2026 10

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A dramatic week that buried the budget but left the Liberals purring anyway

08.11.2025 20

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Carney’s budget is a manifesto of ‘no’

05.11.2025 10

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U.S. Ambassador’s outburst is one more punch in the face from the neighbourhood bully

01.11.2025 10

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What really enrages Donald Trump in that Ronald Reagan ad he doesn’t want anyone to see

28.10.2025 10

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Timing has worked wildly in Mark Carney’s favour before, but now he has a problem

25.10.2025 20

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How the NHL and reality TV explain trade’s Team Canada implosion

18.10.2025 20

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After Trump visit, Poilievre blames Carney for everything under the sun, including sunburn

11.10.2025 10

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What Keir Starmer figured out about Donald Trump before the rest of us

08.10.2025 30

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What will really help with Canada’s housing crisis, and what won’t

04.10.2025 20

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Canada’s carbon tax is dead. But it’s not dearly departed

27.09.2025 20

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As the House of Commons returns, Carney and Poilievre are both chasing a lost political moment

13.09.2025 40

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Carney was elected on a wave of tariff panic. Now he has other problems

06.09.2025 30

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Poilievre’s closest adviser Jenni Byrne tells a perfect election story

23.08.2025 20

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Mark Carney’s ‘build, baby, build’ aspirations face a challenge from Indigenous leaders

19.07.2025 10

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Donald Trump’s F-word drop and his discovery of some hard truths about the world

25.06.2025 10

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In Kananaskis, the G7 was a perfect miniature of where the world is now

21.06.2025 20

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Mark Carney wants to help Canada lose those stubborn 10 pounds we can never seem to drop

14.06.2025 20

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At national conference of city leaders, mayors talk about bonding in the face of Trump economic carnage

31.05.2025 20

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King Charles delivers soaring poetry and gristly prose in Throne Speech to giddy Senate

28.05.2025 10

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King Charles visited an Ottawa market and Canada put on a play about itself

27.05.2025 10

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Mark Carney tells Canadians how to play Mouse Trap properly

17.05.2025 20

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Mark Carney goes to the Oval Office and learns a new skill from Donald Trump

07.05.2025 20

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Poilievre’s uncharacteristic election night sign-off reveals a tiny glimpse of paths not taken

03.05.2025 20

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Election hopes deflate at Conservative HQ

29.04.2025 10

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The 2025 campaign is nearly over. The race we expected in 2024 never began

26.04.2025 20

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In Niagara Falls, Mark Carney stares down Hurricane Trump

19.04.2025 20

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A debate night miracle: no one lost their cool and everyone could learn something

18.04.2025 20

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Pierre Poilievre is sticking to his greatest hits. That’s the problem

12.04.2025 10

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Does Danielle Smith know we can all see and hear her?

05.04.2025 40

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Donald Trump’s tariff game show live from the Rose Garden

03.04.2025 10

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Poilievre and Carney agree on one thing: This federal election is about change

24.03.2025 20

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No hugs or sunny ways here. Carney’s government is a lean, mean trade-war machine

15.03.2025 10

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Liberals send off Trudeau, welcome Carney in a strange, wistful, forgetful event

10.03.2025 20

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The view from the Sault on this tariff stupidity

08.03.2025 20

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The Conservatives have had the rug pulled out from under them

01.03.2025 30

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The Liberal Party’s fast-forward leadership contest sharpens sales pitches to succeed Trudeau

26.02.2025 20

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Donald Trump builds an alternate reality in the White House briefing room

01.02.2025 30

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Hollering, coercion, and endless preening. It’s the art of the Trump deal

25.01.2025 20

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Donald Trump returns to the White House, and his ways

21.01.2025 10

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What you get when politics becomes about picking fights

18.01.2025 20

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People who want to be in charge are making their case to very softball questioners

15.01.2025 10

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The Liberal caucus steps into a Trudeau-shaped hole in the universe

11.01.2025 20

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Justin Trudeau stands in his front yard to say the inevitable

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to make an announcement on his political future outside his residence at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Jan. 6....

07.01.2025 20

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Jordan Peterson gets interesting insights out of Pierre Poilievre, in spite of himself

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks following the Fall Economic Statement being tabled in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa...

06.01.2025 10

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