Mark Carney has been accused of plagiarising his University of Oxford thesis.
On Friday, the Canadian prime minister and former governor of the Bank of England was forced to deny allegations he copied 10 passages of text for his 1995 doctorate.
The allegations are a blow to his election campaign. He faces a knife-edge vote on April 28 after calling a snap election against the backdrop of an aggressive trade war with Donald Trump.
In the shadow of endless headlines about Donald Trump and the American political circus, another crisis is quietly unfolding on Canadian soil — this one in our fields, barns and fishing boats.
As of March 17, China has imposed crippling tariffs on key Canadian agri-food exports: 100% on grains and canola, and 25% on pork, lobster and seafood. These aren’t abstract threats. These are real, immediate penalties on farmers, fishers and harvesters — Canada’s food producers.
With Mark Carney in the prime minister’s chair, it’s safe to assume his brand of climate-focused policy would drive the next wave of federal priorities. On the surface, that might sound appealing to those pushing net zero emissions.
But, when you peel back the layers, especially on the topic of net-zero housing, what you’re left with is an agenda that threatens to make housing even more unaffordable than is currently believed by the average Canadian. On the campaign trail he talks about building ‘millions of homes’ with no experience or real knowledge of what it would take to build these homes.
Quebec’s provincial government released its 2025-26 budget on Tuesday.
“Wow, Lorne, please tell us more!”
OK, it might seem a bit of a stretch to start a column for Albertans with news about Quebec’s provincial budget, but the Quebec budget has implications for Alberta.
You don’t need a read-between-the-lines dictionary to figure out where Prime Minister Mark Carney could well be heading.
On Thursday, Carney is talking about U.S. President Donald Trump and how the Americans are hitting the Canadian auto industry with tariffs.
Carney is talking about April 2 when Trump is scheduled to take other swings at Canada.
Last summer, as I lay awake awaiting a forecasted storm, I left my windows open to feel the warm breeze.
As the first lightning strike lit up the night sky, I heard the boom of thunder. Then, like an echo, I heard screams from the homeless encampment on the river bank — the terror of those without shelter who were exposed to the storm and its potential dangers.
That terror hit me close to my heart, aching with the memory of how close my eight-year-old child and I had been to living on the streets ourselves.
Canadians have a right to know before election day how Mark Carney’s past work life could intersect with his role as prime minister, and not four months from now, when the ethics commissioner finishes his report.
There are several potential issues that could arise under a Mark Carney government. Most are connected to his time at Brookfield Asset Management. These include potential conflicts of interest with investments tied to the firm’s performance, his former business relationship with China, and his net-zero work, which calls into question his commitment to Canadian energy. These could be potential issues for any government leader, regardless of party.
OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre wants you to know: if he’s prime minister, taxes will get axed. Red tape will get slashed. Crime will get smacked down.
But there is another long-standing Poilievre priority that the party has not highlighted in the same way over the opening stretch of the campaign this week.
His plan to “defund” the CBC.
In his first week as prime minister, Mark Carney cancelled a planned capital gains tax increase, cut taxes on housing, and scrapped the consumer carbon tax—undercutting core Conservatives campaign promises. As Carney dismantles his opponent’s key attack lines, strategists say Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre needs to recalibrate his message to find new ground—starting with Canada-U.S. relations.
Support for Poilievre, whose catchy slogans and promise for “change” kept him ahead of the Liberals in the polls for more than a year, has been fading since Carney won the Liberal leadership on March 9. The two are running in neighbouring Ottawa ridings, with Poilievre aiming to retake his long-held Carleton seat and Carney in Nepean.
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney has been accused of taking other people’s ideas as his own in the federal election campaign.
It isn’t new.
The National Post obtained a copy of Carney’s 1995 thesis for his doctorate in economics from Oxford University titled “The Dynamic Advantage of Competition.” It shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism, according to the judgment of three university academics who reviewed the material.
The battle lines have been drawn and based on the polls, policy, and the eye test, each side’s foot soldiers have been made clear.
For the Conservatives, who have opened with high energy, a message of “hope and change,” the power of happy-warrior positivity, and the highlighting of very real threats to Canada’s recovery and the reclamation of the Canadian Dream, their packed halls and overflow rooms are made up of a younger support base than ever before.
Mark Carney’s campaign is something out of a time machine. Thin on actual substance, he’s opted to emanate vibes instead, with cultural references to 1950s hockey, 1960s music and 1980s CBC programming, and imitations of nationalism by cheering on the stereotype of Canadian niceness. It’s quaint — but impossible to relate to.
I used to like 5 Neat Guys too!
As punishing Chinese and American tariffs threaten Canada’s exports, Sask. farmers expressed anger and frustration over what they called U.S. President Donald Trump’s “stupidity.”
But for all the vitriol they have toward the U.S. leader, they also showed disdain for former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his successor, Mark Carney.
“Everything is for the east,” said Carl Jensen, who farms in Invermay, Sask., about 250 kilometres east of Saskatoon, during Canada’s Farm Show last week.
Dear constituents,
I am delighted to announce today that upon careful reflection of national and regional polling, I have decided to throw my hat in the race and run for re-election. This was a tough choice. I know that I said back when the word “Liberal” was radioactive that I would not be running in the next election in order to spend more time with my family. But my party has now found its potassium iodide: its name is Mark Carney, and though he is also tightly constrained and only deployed in emergencies, he works! And so, after much soul-searching – mostly about which cabinet position I want – I have come to the conclusion that my family can wait. Please consider supporting my campaign as I embark on this selfless endeavour.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing renewed questions over his past role with the Bilderberg Group, a secretive annual meeting of global elites that has long sparked theories about hidden agendas controlling world events.
Carney, who joined the Bilderberg Meetings’ steering committee in 2011, attended sessions with figures like Henry Kissinger and Jared Kushner, including the 2019 gathering in Montreux, Switzerland.
