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Canadian Pulse goes beyond the headlines — delivering the insight, analysis and perspective that legacy media won't. Independent. Unfiltered. Unapologetically Canadian.

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Canadian Pulse - The Podcast

Two neighbours. Unscripted politics.

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Follow-Up: Trump Said "DEAL." Ottawa Said "Progress." Now the Devastating Pattern Behind the Gap.

Last night we called the silence suspicious. Hours later, Carney confirmed why - and it fits something Trump has done to allies, and his own team, again and again.

SPECIAL REPORT - Trump Declares a Deal. Ottawa Says Nothing. Here's Why That Gap Matters.

A three-day tariff reprieve, a resurrected pipeline, and two calls between the leaders in as many days - but Carney's office hasn't confirmed a word of it.

Energy First, Trade Second: Inside Carney's Play With Trump

Two days before U.S.

SPECIAL REPORT - Trump Is on the Defensive — Because Carney Is Holding Back

Tariffs, oil, potash — Ottawa's real leverage, still in reserve with the Aug. 19 deadline days away. The question is whether waiting costs Canadians more than using it.

SPECIAL REPORT - The Week That Decides Your Job - Literally

351,000 jobs are riding on what happens between now and Wednesday. Here's what nobody's saying out loud.

Canadian Pulse -The Podcast

Two neighbours, unscripted politics.

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SPECIAL REPORT - Trump's Bully Move on Greenland Didn't Stop. It Just Changed Shape.

He couldn't buy it. He backed off invading it. So his circle is drilling it - without asking - and two Canadian companies are quietly part of how.

SPECIAL REPORT - Alberta is rich. Albertans are poor. Foreign investors are siphoning off the money in the billions of dollars

And the Danielle Smith government won't stop it.

SPECIAL REPORT - Trump Has One Major Achilles' Heel in the Canada Trade Talks. Carney Found It, and Is Using It to Full Effect.

Most Americans see Canada as a treasured neighbour, not an adversary, and just want this fight over. Prime Minister Mark Carney knows what's stalling that, and is using it.

The World Just Bet $183 Billion on Canada. Carney Made It Happen.

The most foreign money to hit Canadian stocks and bonds in a century is already showing up in your mortgage rate and your job market.

SPECIAL REPORT - "We're Not Interested." Carney Just Said the Words Ottawa Has Avoided For a Year.

Carney is telling Trump exactly what Canada will and won't accept in a trade deal, and the timing suggests Canada is negotiating from strength.

Canadian Pulse - The Podcast

Two neighbours, unscripted politics

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FREE WEDNESDAY EDITION • THE PM ANNOUNCES BILLIONS IN NEW DEALS. IS DIVERSIFICATION FINALLY WORKING?

Saudi Arabia. India. The UAE. Indonesia. Every trip comes home with another headline number attached, and on the surface, it looks like exactly the escape from US dependence Carney promised.

SPECIAL REPORT - PART TWO OF TWO • WHY CARNEY PICKED A MAN WHO SPENT A DECADE PROVING PENSION FUNDS CAN BE PATRIOTIC

Michael Sabia didn't just manage $400 billion at the Caisse. He ran the one Canadian pension fund already built around the exact model Carney now wants every fund in the country to follow.

SPECIAL REPORT - PART ONE OF TWO • PROFILE • THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN OTTAWA YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

He's never been elected to anything. He runs the entire federal civil service, and Mark Carney picked him personally to do it.

Canadian Pulse - The Podcast

Two neighbours, unscripted politics.

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SPECIAL REPORT - Convicted. Sentenced. Living the Good Life Anyway.

Tamara Lich says Canada is broken beyond saving. She went to a party at the U.S. ambassador’s residence, wants to visit the White House, all while under a criminal sentence for tearing up Ottawa.

SPECIAL REPORT - Canada's Healthcare System Is in Perpetual Crisis. Today It Took Another Devastating Blow.

One in 10 emergency physicians are walking away — the latest wound in a system politicians have known was failing for years. Here's why, and what a country that fixed it did differently.

SPECIAL REPORT: Everyone's Got Carney Wrong — Pundits, Media, Experts, Canadians.

Nobody's asking what strategy even works against Trump a man with no fixed position for more than a day."

SPECIAL REPORT - Team Canada" Is a Line They're All Still Reciting

In public, Canada's premiers say they're united behind Carney. In Charlottetown this week, several of them said, out loud, exactly where that unity ends.

Inside Mark Carney's Blind Trust: The 103 Companies He's Still Allowed to Touch

554 companies, $6.8 million in stock options, and a carve-out letting 103 of them skip the strict ethics screen.

CANADIAN PULSE - The Podcast

With George Froehlich & Tamara Stanners

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