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United States President Donald Trump is again talking about Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s threat to cut power to three northern states, suggesting America may not want to buy Canadian power at all. A tense Tuesday of escalating tension between Ford and Trump saw tariff threats traded, before an “olive branch” from the White House in the form of a meeting and Trump calling Ford a “strong man.”On Wednesday, Trump again mused about Ontario — this time dismissing the short-lived threat to add a surcharge to electricity and saying his threat of 50 per cent tariff on steel and aluminum had shut it down.“We had a problem with Ontario and they dropped that,” Trump said. “We let them know what we were going to be doing, they dropped it immediately. Electricity, you shouldn’t be playing with electrici...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Liberal Leader Mark Carney is expected to be sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister on Friday, Global News has learned. A senior Liberal source confirmed the planning, which has not yet been confirmed by Carney’s office or the government.Carney will replace outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after winning a race for the Liberal leadership on Sunday.Carney told reporters after his first meeting with the Liberal cabinet in Ottawa on Monday that he expected the transition “will be seamless and it will be quick.” Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford was spending Wednesday meeting with Canada’s incoming prime minister and speaking to his fellow premiers ahead of a trip Thursday to Washington, D.C., to talk trade with a top U.S. official. Ford, federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, are set to meet with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford amid a major ratcheting up – then down – Tuesday of the trade war between the two countries.The U.S. has imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and aluminum imports effective Wednesday and the Canadian government announced tariffs on U.S. goods worth nearly $30 billion in retaliation.Trump had threatened Tuesday to set the steel and aluminum tariff at 50 per cent in response to Ontario pl...

A new poll suggests Canadians’ sense of national pride has surged in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats against the country’s sovereignty. The poll, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies, says that the number of people saying they’re proud to be Canadian has jumped from 80 per cent in November 2024 to 86 per cent this month.Pride is highest among people aged 55 and over — at 92 per cent — while 86 per cent of people between the ages of 35 and 54 and 75 per cent of people aged 18 to 34 said they were proud to be Canadian.The poll sampled more than 1,500 Canadians from March 1 to March 2. Because it was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error. 0:...