Canada could publicly reject the unilateral and illegal nature of the sanctions, and pressure banks and financial institutions to resist U.S. demands.
Even before the United States and Israel attacked Iran, it was at least two years of hard work away from a working nuclear weapon.
Alliances will shift, trade talks will stall, and military procurement decisions will be reconsidered all because one party is no longer interested in hearing the other’s views.
Any American commitment to defend Taiwan from China’s aggression died years ago when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine and the U.S. did not come to its defence. But that doesn’t mean the island is doomed.
Conservative Whip Chris Warkentin says it ‘seems’ that the budget of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group will be slashed by 40 per cent.
The U.S. announced on May 18 that it is pausing participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, alleging Canada hasn’t made ‘credible’ progress on defence investments.
For Donald Trump, burdened with a sluggish economy, an unpopular war, and polling numbers lower than the morale at the Pentagon, the goal is trade deals that will ease his problems back home. That’s why he took every billionaire business dude he could find along on the trip. For Xi Jinping, the calculus is different.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes threatens to go nuclear, but his bluffs are as transparent as U.S President Donald Trump’s threats of violence ‘like nobody has ever seen before.’
Mark Carney is currently in a ‘sweet spot’ because it’s still relatively early in his government. The time when Canadians could start getting hungry to see results from the prime minister on major projects, such as oil pipelines, might not be until next year, says Nik Nanos.
In a wide-ranging interview, Lithuanian Economy and Innovation Minister Edvinas Grikšas talks growing trade, work with the EU, the push for diversification, and boosting domestic defence industries.
The increase in Canada’s exports to the United Kingdom has amounted to 67 per cent of all non-U.S. export gains since 2024.
Most caucus members are not pressing the issue, recognizing that Canada has limited leverage and little ability to meaningfully influence the U.S. position, say some Liberal MPs.
Canada was one of the few U.S. allies not to strike a deal after the Trump administration enacted emergency tariffs that were later struck down by the top American court.
No Canadian prime minister has ever faced a more difficult relationship with an American president than Prime Minister Mark Carney does with Donald Trump.
In a wide-ranging interview, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand discusses a new foreign policy strategy, GAC’s budget cuts, its mission network, and international law and the Iran war.
Several American experts are already talking about the possibility of a civil war, and countries that are fighting internally automatically lose the crown.
Voters are fed up with performative politics in this moment of global and economic disruption. So, out with the Bibles-as-props, dog whistles, personal slurs and red-faced rants; in with respectful, fact-based debate, and intelligent compromise.
The MAGA influencer’s recent video commentary on life in Canada was a jumping-off point for a false and vicious attack against this country that only a bloviating bullshit artist could have uttered.
Pope Leo is giving lessons on the immorality of modern warfare. Mark Carney should pay attention.
We are entering a period where some major changes in climate policy will need to happen quite fast—a decade or two—if we are to avoid ending up on full ‘Hothouse Earth’ by the end of the century.
The Liberal government has avoided making direct statements about potential violations of international law by the Trump administration, despite weighing in on other conflicts.
Repairing the damage done in 16 years under Viktor Orban will take time: the judiciary’s been packed, the government’s a kleptocracy, and most of the media is owned by the former populist leader’s cronies.
I can’t go there anymore. Not to Ithaca in upstate New York, where I had my first university teaching position and remember it so fondly. Not to Vegas or Disney World. Not to Chicago, San Francisco, the high desert in California, Cape Canaveral, or anywhere else I’ve had a wonderful time in the U.S.
The war criminal in the Kremlin has already been given a new lease on life from the U.S. president’s disastrous armed foray into the Middle East.
Despite the American president’s ludicrous claims to the contrary, there is no deal on the table, no meaningful negotiations of any kind underway with Iran.
