In his first days as an elected Prime Minister, Mark Carney faces threats both from without and within.
The threat from without poses the most imminent danger. This country is under assault from its greatest friend. Its economic health and its very existence are at stake.
After a judicial recount, the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped to the Liberals, who have beaten the Bloc Québécois by one vote. The result means the Liberals have 170 seats in the House of Commons — just two shy of a majority government.
On Wednesday, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Stéphane Perrault announced the judicial recount after results showed incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné beat Liberal challenger Tatiana Auguste by 44 votes.
OTTAWA — With a successful election and a high-stakes trip to Washington behind him, Prime Minister Mark Carney is grappling with a tangle of considerations and big decisions as he launches his first governing mandate for Canada’s incoming minority Parliament.
In the coming days, the Liberal prime minister is expected to name a chief of staff and choose key players in his office, shuffle his cabinet on Tuesday, and try to advance a series of governing priorities under the shadow of Donald Trump’s trade war. Having won a seat for the first time in the April 28 federal election, Carney will also enter the House of Commons later this month as a parliamentary novice whose party — with 169 seats at the latest count — is just shy of a majority, prompting speculation the Liberals might convince opposition MPs to cross the floor and strengthen the government’s hand.
Now-former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau famously complimented China’s government.
Newly installed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is a globalist who has frequently criticized his American counterpart, President Donald Trump.
Though Canada and China have had their difficulties, some reports indicate that the two nations are ready to “move forward” in their relationship.
It may be that the US knows how deep China is into Canada and seeks to eradicate the threat by annexing Beijing’s outpost.
The truth is we were headed into tough economic times regardless of who won the April 28 election.
A major reason – which Prime Minister Mark Carney noted prior to the vote – was the polices of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, whose decade-long government presided over the worst record of economic growth in Canada since the Great Depression.
The province of Alberta has a legitimate grievance with the ROC (Rest of Canada).
According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, since the inception of Canada’s equalization program in 1957, which sees the wealthier provinces subsidizing their less fortunate counterparts, Alberta has made a net contribution of $67 billion, $2.9 billion alone in 2021 — which in turn represents only a portion of the province’s immense financial contribution to federal coffers and the governments and residents of other provinces.
The federal government expects to spend about $7 million this fiscal year to store and maintain four custom-made, portable hospitals that cost taxpayers more than $200 million to buy — facilities meant to bolster overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic that were barely used.
Early on in the pandemic, as the federal government moved at breakneck speed to respond to a global health crisis, it issued rush orders for these Mobile Health Units.
Canada’s jobless numbers could have been worse in April – in fact, Statistics Canada is pretty clear they would have been worse if not for the election.
The month jobs report was released Friday showing unemployment rising to 6.9%, up from 6.7% in February.
BREAKING – IMMIGRATION TRAIN WRECK IN CANADA
Between April 2024 and April 2025
Canada added 512,000 working aged Canadians (25-54 years old) ….
but recorded only 182,000 more people working full-time pic.twitter.com/zraQXvITu1
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) May 9, 2025
VANCOUVER, Canada — Around the time Canadian police uncovered a massive Chinese drug cash bank in Richmond, B.C.—exposing the so-called Vancouver Model of transnational money laundering—investigators made another stunning discovery that has never before been publicly disclosed.
According to sources with direct knowledge, operatives tied to Beijing’s foreign influence arm, the United Front Work Department, were orchestrating a parallel cannabis trafficking and money laundering operation—leveraging Canada’s legalization of marijuana to export the lucrative commodity to the United States and Japan. The scheme used short-term rental platforms to operate illicit cannabis brokerage houses in Vancouver, aggregating product from vast acreages across Western Canada and shipping it to destinations including Tokyo and New York City. Proceeds were collected in United Front-linked drug cash brokerages in those cities and laundered back through Canadian banks.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will name a new cabinet on Tuesday. He has said his cabinet ministers will be an equal number of men and women.
The cabinet will be sworn in at 10:30 a.m. at Rideau Hall in Ottawa by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon.
Carney won the Liberal leadership March 9, and he and his first slimmed-down cabinet were sworn in five days later. His first cabinet had just 24 members, compared to former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s last 39-member cabinet.
A new report released by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms outlines the extensive and lasting damage caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in Canada, citing a dramatic decline in mental health, a rise in non-COVID deaths, strained healthcare services, economic fallout, and increased crime.
The report, Five Years On: Tracing the Costs of Lockdowns, criticizes federal and provincial governments for implementing sweeping restrictions without transparent, evidence-based analysis.
Since day one, Prime Minister Mark Carney has tried to convince Canadians that he’s not former prime minister Justin Trudeau. And until now, he has succeeded.
Early on, Carney took decisive action to try to clearly distance himself from the Trudeau legacy. He signed an Order in Council to set the consumer carbon tax rate to zero. He promised to scrap the Trudeau government’s planned capital gains tax hike. And he made a middle-class income tax cut the centrepiece of his election platform, recognizing Canadians were hard done by after years of Liberal tax hikes.
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says the Liberals are making phone calls to NDP members of parliament to see if they will join the Liberal Party in an effort to reach a majority government.
Davies told Global News he’s not worried about his six other NDP MP colleagues switching political teams.
OTTAWA – As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the future of the NATO military alliance, Canada is looking to partner with the European Union on defence.
Here’s a closer look at what’s driving this major shift in transatlantic relations.
What problem is Europe trying to solve?
I see a Big Liberal Slush Fund ahead.
Prime Minister Minister Mark Carney cannot be trusted with our Charter-protected right to free expression.
The man has been clear: during the election campaign, Carney spoke scornfully of our most essential freedom, our speech, from which all our other freedoms flow.
