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U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on world leaders have given many of them a boost in their approval ratings, as allies contend with what experts say is an “external threat” posed by the Trump administration. Leaders who were suffering polling slumps in recent months and years — including outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his incumbent Liberal Party, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — have seen their popularity rebound since Trump returned to the White House in January, according to recent polls.“Donald Trump is making other countries rally around their leaders in opposition,” said Matthew Lebo, a political science professor at Western University.“He’s having the opposite effect of what he seems to want, which is to undermine people like Trudeau and Zelenskyy.”Altho...

Three former BC Conservative MLAs have announced Monday that they will sit as independents in the provincial legislature. Conservative Leader John Rustad expelled Dallas Brodie from the party on Friday citing “her decision to publicly mock and belittle testimony from former residential school students.”MLAs Jordan Kealy and Tara Arsmtrong subsequently quit the party saying they had lost confidence in Rustad and that he had “abandoned the truth.”On Monday, the trio spoke to media outside the legislature, where Armstrong said Rustad had “caved to the woke liberals who have infiltrated the party.”“No one was surprised when (Premier) David Eby attacked Dallas Brodie for telling the truth about Kamloops, but John Rustad’s cowardly decision to stab her in the back revealed just how corrupt he ha...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is urging his provincial counterparts to ramp up retaliatory measures against tariffs imposed on Canadian goods by President Donald Trump. On Monday, Ontario placed a surcharge of 25 per cent on electricity exported to 1.5 million homes in three U.S. states.In particular, Ford urged Alberta, which sends about four million barrels of oil per day to the United States, to look at similar moves.“A message to Premier (Danielle) Smith: one day, I think you might have to use that trump card and give approval for an export tax,” he said.“You want to talk about a trump card? That will instantly change the game, instantly, when the Americans — and I know the Americans — all of a sudden their gas prices go up 90 (cents) to $1 a gallon. They will lose their minds, so we need ...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size B.C. Premier David Eby says all U.S. liquor products will be removed from B.C. liquor stores. Previously, it was only liquor from red states, but Eby said on Monday that will now change.“It was about a week ago, we announced taking liquor products and other products made in Republican states off the shelf here at the liquor store and at all of our public liquor stores across the province,” Eby said.“Since then, we have seen a threat of additional tariffs on the dairy industry. An investigation into our lumber industry by the president, with the aim of adding even more tariffs and disturbing articles in the New York Times and other places about the president threatening to redraw our border...