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Can we take Mark Carney at his word, or is he Prime Minister Pants-on-Fire?
Susan Riley/The Hill Times: Pipeline politics, and economics, are complicated. The oil industry spends lavishly to bamboozle the…
July 13, 2026
‘Coin of the Realm’: CUSMA, Gordie Howe Bridge, and end of bilateral trust
Colin Robertson/Policy Options: This is not just a story about a bridge. It is a warning about the…
July 13, 2026
U.S. bridge shakedown in rough world
Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: Maybe we should have seen it coming. In 2012, Stephen Harper’s government agreed…
July 13, 2026
Is Carney signalling return of two-party partisan Senate with new appointments?
Althia Raj/Toronto Star: Since Carney’s election last year, several senators told the Star they’ve felt pressured to swiftly…
July 12, 2026
Carney talks about Canada’s ‘energy sovereignty.’ But what does that really mean?
CBC: But the Carney government’s interpretation of energy sovereignty seems out of step with other countries, says Amy…
July 12, 2026
Carney’s visit to Saudi Arabia revealed narrowed vision of Canada’s place in world
Lloyd Axworthy/Toronto Star: What Carney’s visit ultimately revealed was not simply a different set of priorities, but a…
July 12, 2026
Mark Carney’s govt loves memorandums of understanding. So, what are they exactly?
Shannon Proudfoot/The Globe and Mail: But the real challenge goes back to what a memorandum of understanding is…
July 11, 2026
Hey, big spender: Why we need to start giving Carney bit less benefit of doubt
Adam Radwanski/Toronto Star: But there’s too much at stake, in the bets he’s placing on the country’s future,…
July 11, 2026
Mark Carney spent year gathering political capital. Now he’s spending it — along with billions of taxpayers’ dollars
Tonda MacCharles/Toronto Star: Poilievre’s newly named foreign affairs critic Eric Duncan said in an interview that when he…
July 11, 2026
Braid: Smith’s big Stampede rollouts aimed at cutting separatist support
Don Braid/Calgary Herald: In the space of seven days, UCP Premier Danielle Smith and her allies proved that…
July 10, 2026
Anthony Koch: I’m a Conservative who wants to win! That doesn’t make me a Liberal
Anthony Koch/National Post: Somewhere along the line, a segment of the conservative movement stopped caring about victory and…
July 10, 2026
Bell: Defiant Pierre Poilievre fights back, vows to keep exposing Carney as fake
Rick Bell/Calgary Herald: But how does Poilievre break through the love-in with Carney where the prime minister rides…
July 9, 2026
Taxpayers to buy Alberta another pipeline in far-reaching shakeup of Canada’s energy picture
Les Whittington/The Hill Times: It’s the socialists from Ottawa coming to the rescue in the bastion of drill-baby-drill…
July 8, 2026
Conservative front bench shuffle brings ‘fresh eyes’ and ‘refreshing intelligence’ to the Tories’ off-season offence: politicos
The Hill Times: Moving Michael Chong to the Conservative finance critic role will bring a ‘refreshing, intelligent change’…
July 8, 2026
Carney starts to leave his mark on Senate
Aaron Wherry/CBC: Harder, who served as the government representative in the Senate from 2016 to 2020 and authored a…
July 8, 2026
This is why Carney is succeeding
Tasha Kheiriddin/National Post: A recent Abacus poll shows the cost of living to be the dominant issue at 67 per…
July 8, 2026
Does Pierre Poilievre actually want to be prime minister?
Brian Lilley/Toronto Sun: Instead of building a winning coalition against Mark Carney, Poilievre keeps picking unnecessary fights with…
July 7, 2026
Carney seeks ‘quarterback’ in Senate with Pitfield but partisan shift ‘warning sign,’ say observers
The Hill Times: “This signifies … a realization from Mr. Carney and his team that they needed more…
July 7, 2026
Carney opens Senate doors wider to partisans
Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: The old rules just slowed the roll of partisans into the Senate a…
July 7, 2026
Why NATO needs to build a defence market
Fiona E. Murray and Robert Murray/The Globe and Mail: A market-making approach would be both more cost-effective and more productive…
July 7, 2026