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The candidate running from herself to get away from Trudeau

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Trump’s psychology is not the hard thing to figure out

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Carney staked out ground but his first day didn’t dazzle

17.01.2025 10

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Premiers talk tactics for a game of tariff chicken

16.01.2025 5

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Not-so-outside Liberal outsiders

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Liberal data guru Pitfield steps back from Carney campaign and commits to staying neutral

14.01.2025 10

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Say goodbye to the U.S. we knew, and plan for the next one

13.01.2025 10

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A Liberal search for the face of the future when the mission is to save the furniture

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Jan. 6. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Everyone who runs...

08.01.2025 10

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Justin Trudeau waited until all the options were gone, painting the party and country into a corner

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as Liberal leader and prime minister outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Jan. 6. Sean...

07.01.2025 10

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Trudeau appoints a cabinet of caretakers for his government’s dying days

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at a cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, on Dec. 20. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press...

21.12.2024 5

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Justin Trudeau is the political issue, despite all the others

Chrystia Freeland's resignation letter is a powerful blow to Mr. Trudeau’s last hopes for political revival. It is one thing when voters doubt a...

18.12.2024 6

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Freeland’s grenade brings crisis on top of crisis to a flailing Trudeau government

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland speak at a news conference in Ottawa, on Oct. 1, 2018. PATRICK...

16.12.2024 3

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This week’s Liberal revival plan from a minister who might not survive 48 hours

While Chrystia Freeland is set to unveil the fall economic statement Monday, the Prime Minister is in discussions to try to recruit former Bank of...

16.12.2024 4

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Tensions in Team Liberal over finances held hostage to political desperation

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland leaves after a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in...

11.12.2024 6

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Poilievre changes the channel to get back on message

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to reporters as he leaves the Prime Minister's office in the West Block after taking part in a meeting...

05.12.2024 10

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A Mar-a-Lago coup with a value as unpredictable as Trump’s tweets

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a hotel in West Palm Beach, after a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump last night at...

02.12.2024 4

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The precursor to four more years of Trump tariff threats

U.S President-elect Donald Trump gestures after speaking during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, on Nov. 14, in...

27.11.2024 10

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Canada’s politicians rush to panic in a call to cut Mexico loose

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right to left, Chrystia Freeland, Robert Lighthizer, former U.S. president Donald Trump, Ildefonso Guajardo...

25.11.2024 10

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Justin Trudeau’s amazingly unsubtle pre-election giveaway

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at Vince’s Market in Sharon, Ont. to make an announcement regarding a two month suspension of GST on...

22.11.2024 6

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A textbook case of a system set up for waste and abuse

Travellers use their phones as they line up at the Ottawa International Airport on Dec. 23, 2022. The scandal around the ArriveCan app, which was...

16.11.2024 30

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Stuck in the middle, and risking union support

Cranes sit idle at the Port of Montreal on Nov. 12. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon had to do something to...

13.11.2024 30

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Sprinkle a little notwithstanding on every governing headache

Ewan Sauve, right, press attache, walks along as Quebec Premier Francois Legault walks to a news conference prior to question period at the...

08.11.2024 2

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Liberals limp out of confrontation without closure

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., on Oct. 23. Patrick Doyle/Reuters Is the Liberal...

24.10.2024 9

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Now it’s Poilievre facing the fire on foreign interference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period in the House of Commons, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Oct. 21. Sean...

23.10.2024 10

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Marc Miller and a mea culpa makes a rare success

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller speaks during a news conference, Sept. 18. By capping the number of new international...

14.10.2024 3

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What happened in Bill Blair’s office during unexplained 54-day gap?

Bill Blair speaks with reporters as he arrives for a meeting of the federal cabinet in Ottawa on Oct. 7. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press Things went...

09.10.2024 2

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Poilievre moving down a sliding scale toward admitting he’ll cut some Liberal social programs

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 2. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Nine months ago,...

03.10.2024 10

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Brighter signs on affordability just as Liberals run out of time

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal fundraiser in Mississauga, Ont. on Sept. 27. Affordability concerns have been clobbering...

30.09.2024 10

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Trudeau and Macron, both challenged at home, set for talks about a rough world

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the press as he arrives for the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United...

25.09.2024 3

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Justin Trudeau says he’s staying, but his government acts like time is almost up

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal Party fundraiser event in Halifax on Aug. 27. Trudeau will face a fretful and strained caucus in...

09.09.2024 9

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MPs call an ArriveCan witness and forget the key question

There was a burning question for Diane Daly, a civil servant who worked on the ArriveCan app project. But when she appeared before a Commons...

09.08.2024 3

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Kill a fallacy to save immigration

What is immigration for? Canada seems to be confused by that question. Right now, the country’s immigration system is digging out of a hole created...

05.08.2024 4

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Ottawa has to do something about immigration boom, but it doesn’t have any good options

Let’s look at the conundrum Marc Miller faces. The Immigration Minister must choose between bad policy and disaster. Mr. Miller announced in...

01.08.2024 10

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Trump’s America wouldn’t be interested in U.S. allies

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump shakes hands with vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance during the Republican...

19.07.2024 10

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