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Carney makes cabinet calls

On March 14, Mark Carney became Canada’s new prime minister, naming a much smaller cabinet of 23 ministers, most of whom were also part of the his predecessor’s front bench.

Conservative attack ad lacks authenticity

Most political consumers will reject the Conservative ad attacking Mark Carney as helping Donald Trump by driving jobs south because it won’t seem rooted in reality.

Who’s Tory now?

Newly elected party leader Mark Carney arrives for the Liberal Party caucus meeting in West Block on March 10, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

There is a new Liberal in town, a blue-suit Liberal, and all these ordinary concerns—although climate change is hardly trivial—seem to be set aside in face of a more immediate threat: Donald Trump and his shy surrogate north of the border.