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Two neighbours. Unscripted politics.
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Two neighbours. Unscripted politics.

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.

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.

Two days before U.S.

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.

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

Two neighbours, unscripted politics.

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.

And the Danielle Smith government won't stop it.

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

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.

Two neighbours, unscripted politics

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.

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.

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

Two neighbours, unscripted politics.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

With George Froehlich & Tamara Stanners