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Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a meeting at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian PM Mark Carney and President Donald Trump agree to disagree about Canada becoming the 51st state: ‘It won’t be for sale. Ever.’

By Rob Gillies, Josh Boak, and others

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney

Mark Carney warns Canada ‘we must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed’

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

Steve Rai, Vancouver Police interim police chief, speaks during a news conference that there had been a vehicle and a suspect involved in an incident at the annual Lapu Lapu festival celebrating Filipino culture, at East 43rd Avenue and Fraser, in the south of Vancouver on April 26, 2025. Canadian police arrested a man on April 26 after a car plowed into a street party in the western city of Vancouver killing a number of people. Authorities said the incident happened shortly after 8:00 pm (0300 GMT Sunday) in Vancouver's Sunset on Fraser neighborhood as members of the Filipino community gathered to celebrate Lapu Lapu Day.

11 people were killed after a Vancouver man allegedly drove his car into a Lapu Lapu Day festival crowd

By Jim Morris, Rob Gillies, and others

Yara Alfaqeeh, 20, stands along the Windsor, Ontario, Canada side of the Detroit River on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Corey R. Williams)

Travel & Leisure

Canadians are avoiding the U.S. over Trump’s bluster and border arrests—crossings down 22%

By Rob Gillies, Jim Morris, and others

Mark Carney stands in front of two Canadian flags

Canada’s prime minister says removing trade barriers with other countries will be far more beneficial than Trump’s tariffs could ever hope to be

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about tariffs during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday April 3, 2025.

Canada’s former banker turned prime minister slams Trump’s tariffs as ‘misguided’

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a news conference

Canada’s new leader Mark Carney calls Trump’s 25% car tariffs a ‘direct attack’ on his country: ‘He wants to break us so America can own us’

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

OTTAWA, CANADA – MARCH 23: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for a snap election after speaking with Mary Simon, the Governor General of Canada, on March 23, 2025 in Ottawa, Canada. Mark Carney will continue to be leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. The elections are slated to be held on April 28, 2025. (Photo by Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images)

Canada’s snap election is all about Trump and his ‘unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty’

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

OTTAWA, CANADA – MARCH 14: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the media after being sworn in at Rideau Hall on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Carney, a former central banker, replaces Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader as the country faces a trade war with the United States. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

New Prime Minister Mark Carney vows Canada will ‘never, ever’ be part of the US as he seeks alliances in Europe

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives at the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump says tariffs will bring back ‘stolen’ wealth and companies—and higher ones will work even better—as trade war fears stoke business anxiety

By Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman, and others

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 06, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Canada and the EU launch billions in new tariffs on American goods from beef to bourbon in retaliation against Trump

By Lorne Cook, David McHugh, and others

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks into a microphone

Canada will respond to Trump’s metal tariffs with more than $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds a news conference regarding the new tariffs that the United States has placed on Canada, at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Ontario hits back at Trump’s tariffs with higher electricity bills for 1.5 million Americans

By The Associated Press and Rob Gillies

OTTAWA, CANADA – MARCH 9: Mark Carney, newly elected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, delivers his victory address following the official announcement of the 2025 Liberal Leadership race results at Rogers Centre, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Canada’s next prime minister managed the 2008 financial crisis and Brexit—and now Trump’s trade war

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press

Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and Liberal Party leader candidate, during a Liberal Party leadership debate in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Liberals will decide on a new leader by March 9, which gives the winner of the contest about two weeks before Parliament returns. Photographer: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mark Carney to become Canada’s next prime minister, taking on Trump’s trade war and annexation threat

By Rob Gillies and The Associated Press