In 50 years, the G7’s never had a summit like the one Carney is hosting next month

It’s hard to imagine how the stakes could be higher in the midst of the U.S. president’s economic warfare against most of the other attendees.
Minister McGuinty faces challenge to modernize military under unstable U.S. relationship: defence experts

Canada’s multibillion-dollar defence modernization plans are ‘predicated on the assumption of an increasingly tight, integrated working relationship with the United States,’ says CGAI president David Perry.
‘We’re hurt, too’: U.S. envoy counters Canadians’ outrage over annexation threats

U.S. envoy Pete Hoekstra says he is ‘not very sympathetic’ to the pain Canadians feel over Trump’s annexation threats as he looks to the future.
The mystique of monarchy takes another victim

Playing the monarchy card might protect both Canada and the U.K. from worse treatment at the hands of the U.S. president.
Long live the King, maybe

Mark Carney wants to send an international message of strength. But that message could be double-edged.
Carney will need to get a clear agreement on Canada’s future relationship with the U.S.

Despite our efforts to build a more independent economy, we are still going to need some kind of agreement with the U.S., a market which accounts for about 75 per cent of our trade.
A new middle-power alliance would give Canada leverage, and Canadians hope

America’s global trade war can only succeed against a divided opposition.
A public alternative to social media

It is increasingly clear that private social media companies’ values do not align with maintaining a vibrant information ecosystem.
Unchartable as ever: Canada’s future still up in the air as Trump juggles his trade strategy

Canada needs some kind of breakthrough soon because the combination of existing tariffs and the uncertainty from Trump’s tariff shell game has this country headed for a recession.
Trump just tossed a $400-million jumbo jet into the swamp he was supposed to drain

Even though accepting the jet is clearly unconstitutional, as Representative Jamie Raskin and Senator Richard Blumenthal have pointed out, Donald Trump got the gift legally approved by his attorney general. To her everlasting shame, Pam Bondi has chosen her boss over her country and the Constitution.