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Bill Maher warns Trump to ‘watch out’ for Freeland

Plus, Chimwemwe Undi is the new parliamentary poet-laureate, the Daily Beast calls Poilievre ‘MAGA’s Canadian sweetheart,’ Lattanzio is the new NSICOP chair, Xavier Trudeau teases a music video, a King’s coronation award for CBC’s David Cochrane, and more.

Holland meets the health ministers

Minister of Health Mark Holland

Good Thursday morning, In today’s Politics This Morning: Canada’s health ministers have gathered in Halifax, where today they’ll sit down to hash out some of the big issues troubling Canada’s health systems. The federal and provincial ministers responsible for mental health, YA’ARA SAKS and BRIAN COMER, will also participate in the meeting. Which topics will […]

Macklem lays out hypothetical repercussions of Trump tariffs 

Tiff Macklem

A monetary policy report released by the Bank of Canada on Jan. 29 laid out the likely ramifications of U.S. President Donald Trump’s potential tariffs. It assumed a scenario wherein the United States does slap a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods, and Canada applies a 25 per cent retaliatory tariff on American […]

Joly meets Rubio

Mélanie Joly

Plus, the Bank of Canada makes its latest move on interest rates.