politics

Countries that have relied on traditional diplomacy to deal with the Trump administration have had less success than countries that have found ways to directly enrich the Trump family and those close to them. Source link

Despite widespread concern about declining levels of trust, Canadian analytics firm Environics finds that overall levels of trust in many of the institutional pillars of this country’s democracy — elections, the prime minister, Parliament, the Supreme Court — have been relatively stable over the last 10 to 15 years. Source link

The federal government reached what Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling a “landmark” agreement with China on Friday. Here’s a breakdown of what’s in the deal, how the two countries arrived at this point and how key players are reacting. Source link

CBC News has confirmed that thousands of federal employees have received notice that their jobs could be in jeopardy since the government promised in November’s budget to shrink the public service. Source link

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The Federal Court of Appeal is expected to give its decision Friday morning on whether the Liberal government unlawfully invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital and border points in 2022. Source link

The federal Conservative Party is seeking to make amends with some provincial leaders after tensions with both Ontario and Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative premiers played out in public last year, sources say. Source link

Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Source link

Canada’s privacy commissioner is expanding his investigation into Elon Musk’s X Corp. following multiple reports that its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is being used to create and share explicit images of people without their consent. Source link

A Canadian citizen has died in Iran “at the hands of the Iranian authorities,” according to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Source link