During her time as Canada’s unofficial first lady, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau said she never saw her “former partner as a prime minister.”
“I knew it was his job, but come on,” the soon-to-be 52-year-old told Talia Bronfman and Jessica Green, hosts of Canadian podcast Built For This, in a recent episode.
“Like snap out of every role you’re in, because if you believe it for half a second you’re doomed, and including celebrity.”
Former Liberal MP Rajvinder Grewal’s mounting legal troubles now include a claim for $1-million in damages from his own father-in-law, who alleges he was the victim of mortgage fraud and identity theft.
In three separate lawsuits, Kailash Kasal has alleged that his son-in-law, Mr. Grewal, fraudulently used Mr. Kasal’s businesses and properties to borrow tens of millions of dollars and also move money obtained by fraud.
OTTAWA — Canada needs to overhaul the Trudeau-era immigration system so that applicants are selected largely on their ability to boost the economy, a new think tank report suggests, part of a wide-ranging set of policy suggestions for governments at all levels.
Europe made a “historic” blunder by caving to the Trump administration on tariffs during Trump’s second term, the former Canadian trade minister who helped negotiate the US-Mexico-Canada deal during the first Trump administration told Semafor.
“A real problem for the Western alliance has been the decision by the UK and by the EU to give in to the Trump bullying on tariffs,” Chrystia Freeland said. “People thought appeasement would win a reprieve for us all.”
It now seems clear that Prime Minister Mark Carney misled Canadians when he said, in recognizing the Palestinian state on July 30, 2025, that Canada’s support was “predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms.”
Carney is as big if not a bigger liar than Trudeau. Watch what he does not what he says.
With just days to go before Albertans vote on whether to pursue independence, polls suggest residents who want to stay in Canada have a safe lead. Support for remaining is in the high 60s, while the leave sentiment is in the low 20s. But it could go differently. Pollsters have been wrong before, even on separatist votes. The National Post’s Joseph Brean surveys various possibilities for how this referendum on a referendum could turn out to be an October surprise.
MONTREAL — Canada and the European Union are laying out concrete steps to strengthen ties around digital security, critical resources and a would-be fleet of Canadian water bombers, according to a draft joint statement ahead of a major summit at month’s end.
The document, seen by The Canadian Press, states that Ottawa and Brussels aim to let Canadian companies bid on cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure contracts typically reserved for European companies in another push away from dependence on the United States.
In Unreliable Boyfriend, one-time finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland digs into how her political relationship with Justin Trudeau went from a warm face-to-face invite into public service to a cold Zoom call where he booted her from the finance role years later.
While the book’s “unreliable boyfriend” is the United States under U.S. President Donald Trump, readers could be forgiven for thinking the title is actually inspired by Trudeau.
Polish that turd all you want it ain’t gonna smell better.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing the ground for another mass immigration push, despite the pressure Justin Trudeau’s open-door policies placed on housing, public services and Canadian workers.
Rather than abandoning the already flawed model that helped create the crisis, the Liberal Party is considering reviving it, while India’s High Commissioner to Canada has already floated the prospect of 15 million additional immigrant workers over the next decade.
Just when we thought Canada’s population was falling by 0.5 per cent over the past year as of July – it turned out to be the other way around: it grew by that amount, as the improved counting of non-permanent residents revealed.
The latest upward revisions to population estimates by Statistics Canada are substantial enough to change the picture of our economy: The tiny bit of positivity we have had recently in our numbers may prove greatly exaggerated.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing in January and said Canada’s new “strategic partnership” with China set both countries up for a “new world order,” it marked a striking reversal. Less than a year earlier, on the election campaign trail, Carney had named China as Canada’s biggest security threat. And a year before the trip, the Hogue Commission’s report on foreign interference concluded that China is the most persistent and sophisticated foreign interference threat to Canada’s democratic institutions and elections.
I was pleased to have been asked to contribute to the analysis of Canada’s defence spending and related metrics by the team at Benchmark Canada. I commend the process and believe it will be helpful in informing public discourse and debate about defence spending and the rebuilding of Canada’s military and security capabilities. With that said, however, building and maintaining an effective military is a complex undertaking and we should be careful what conclusions or inferences we draw from the analysis. I will refrain from focusing too much on the data itself, and instead I will try to provide context and a broader understanding of the implications of what the analysis tells us.
First of all, that title.
Chrystia Freeland chose to call her new book “Unreliable Boyfriend” — the boyfriend in question being the United States — which puts the focus firmly on her role in managing Canada’s fraught relationship with Donald Trump’s America.
But the reality is there are at least two unreliable boyfriends in Freeland’s story, a compelling mix of personal memoir, political insider gossip and policy vision for a post-Trump world.
As almost 300 mostly unidentified Canadians attend a trade mission in Mumbai, the High Commissioner of India to Canada predicts that this country will need 15 million immigrants to meet the workforce needs of a growing economy in the next 10 years.
Diana Fox Carney arrives in Halifax on Wednesday on her first trip there as Canada’s Ocean Envoy, ahead of an international conference she will chair in the city next spring.
The Our Ocean Conference has raised about US$180-billion in commitments since it was launched by former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry in 2014 as a faster alternative to negotiated treaties. The conference asks governments, businesses and conservation groups to make voluntary commitments to protect the ocean.
Another Carney slushfund.
