Will Carney’s cabinet shuffle favour high-profile rookies or veteran MPs?
Stalwart ministers who recently travelled with Prime Minister Mark Carney for a high-profile meeting with the American president are seen as likely to remain in cabinet, but there’s no shortage of ‘shiny new penny’ MPs to tap for senior roles.
From first impressions to policy planning, public servants await new cabinet, new Parliament
From dusting off financial documents to preparing to welcome new ministers, there’s plenty of work to be done before King Charles III delivers the throne speech.
Time to make more pharmacare deals after election stalled momentum
Before the campaign, Ottawa secured agreements with only four jurisdictions: Manitoba, British Columbia, Yukon, and Prince Edward Island.
Carney’s first post-election presser ‘a rare olive branch’ to Canadian media after election night slight: former gallery journalist
Navigating media politics is more challenging than strategically worthwhile, and sometimes fairness means equal disappointment, says former PMO comms director Cameron Ahmad.
Low expectations, high stakes as Carney heads to White House for first meeting with Trump
The meeting between the two leaders should be about ‘getting a serious commitment to negotiate, not to berate or bludgeon us into an agreement, particularly on the part of Americans,’ says Fen Osler Hampson.
When Republican presidents used to love us
Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan warned in 1988 in one of his famous weekly radio addresses: ‘We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.’
Carney steps into the fray
Liberals like their leaders coming out of caucus, not left field. Carney bucked that preference. He not only captured the top job, he raised the Liberals Lazarus-like from the dead. But he has made the task tougher because he has created such great expectations in Canadians. And there won’t be much time to prepare for the biggest item on his early agenda—negotiating a new trade and security deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.
A letter to Prime Minister Carney, from Rose LeMay
This is a request to pause to consider a priority that escaped discussion during the campaign—reconciliation and the wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples of this country.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance
Once the Trump business is resolved, will Poilievre’s troops return to attacks on wokeism, the legacy media, and the ideologically impure, even within their own ranks? It isn’t what most Canadians want.
Digital is the future, and Carney should name a minister for Canadian digital sovereignty
Canada must become a global digital superpower. This is the future and we must be part of that future.
