Justin Trudeau

National campaigning is now underway in Canada, as Prime Minister Mark Carney asked the governor-general to dissolve parliament. Canadians will head to the polls on April 28th. Analysts agree this election will be fought on one main issue – which party leader can best deal with President Donald Trump and his tariffs.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave what’s likely to be one of his last news conferences this week. He has been at the helm of the Liberal Party and the country for the past ten years. But by Monday, Liberals will have a new leader.

A full-blown trade war has erupted between the U.S and Canada. As threatened, President Donald Trump slapped crippling tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports into the U.S just after midnight on March the fourth, and Ottawa immediately began retaliation, with 25 percent tariffs on many American products.

US President Donald Trump has again floated the idea of Canada becoming the fifty-first state. He says he wants that due to his unsubstantiated claim that the US is paying 200 billion dollars a year to Canada. As recently as a couple of days ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Canada-US economic summit that he takes Trump’s notion seriously. The summit, held in Toronto, was aimed at bolstering the Canadian economy in the face of continued threats from Washington.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-US economic summit today (Friday, February 7th, 2025) in Toronto. The meeting comes on the heels of President Donald Trump pausing threatened tariffs for a month.

During his 10-year incumbency as Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau did prove - in some ways - to be an advocate for the Niagara Region extending from suburban Toronto to such border municipalities as Niagara Falls and Fort Erie.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation Monday after nearly a decade in power, bowing to rising discontent over his leadership and growing turmoil within his government signaled by the abrupt departure of his finance minister.

Canada will not renew its last COVID-19 border restrictions when they expire at the end of this week, meaning visitors will soon be able to enter the country without showing proof of vaccination.

The Canadian government is temporarily banning the importation of restricted handguns pending more restrictive, permanent measures from parliament.

The Canadian government has unveiled how much it's proposing to pay for banned firearms under a mandatory buyback program part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to toughen gun laws amid a rash of recent mass shootings in the U.S., including Buffalo. However, the proposed new law has already drawn criticism from legal gun owners who say it doesn’t target the real problem.