31 h. ago John Ivison: All knives are out to pop the Liberals’ popularity bubble

The Conservatives have a month before election day and the benefit of all opposition parties now having Carney squarely in their sights

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69 h. ago John Ivison: New Democrats discover Carney is just the cutthroat corporate villain they need

There is a market for compassion and concern for the unfortunate. And Carney's time at Brookfield is on the wrong side of it

Transport

3 d. ago John Ivison: Conservatives look like they’re being outfoxed by Carney

Instead of a smooth launch to get the campaign rolling, Conservatives found themselves hurtling backwards at pace

Transport

7 d. ago Ivison: Why Poilievre needs to pivot from stoking anger to harnessing hope

This week, John Ivison and his panelists discuss the expected election call and how Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre should approach the upcoming campaign

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9 d. ago John Ivison: Carney’s messiah status fails to float across the pond

On his first official trip overseas, Carney supplied his critics with plenty to make the case that he is not the Anointed One after all

Transport

1 week ago Liberals can win with Trump’s foreign interference: Full Comment podcast

Canada’s crucial relationship with the United States is in its worst crisis ever. And Mark Carney’s first urgent trip as prime minister is to Europe. Brian Lilley talks with John Ivison and Lorne Gunter this week to assess Carney’s first curious moves as the newly selected Liberal leader. But while Carney’s already saddled with […]

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2 w. ago John Ivison: An allegedly secret foreign deal limiting Canadian propane exports could leave us all poorer

B.C. First Nations claim betrayal, bad-faith bargaining and a propane monopoly that lets a foreign company cap Canada's export potential

Economics

2 w. ago John Ivison: Trump’s mad tariff crusade will sink itself. Carney just needs to wait for it

No Canadian politician can engage seriously with a foreign leader whose stated, unapologetic goal is the annexation of the country

Economics

2 w. ago John Ivison: Carney is already having trouble not looking like Trudeau 2.0

His party and most of its senior members will remain the same people who have dragged the country to such a low ebb

Politics

3 w. ago John Ivison: Canada might just bloody Trump’s nose before this trade war is over

The president will only reverse himself if the stench of the economic damage sticks to him

Economics

3 w. ago Ivison: Carney’s credibility cracks give Conservatives an opportunity

'What the Liberals have is a guy, and a guy people really don't know very much about,' Ipsos CEO Darrell Bricker tells John Ivison

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4 w. ago John Ivison: Why Conservatives say they aren’t sweating the Liberals’ Lazarus

A tightening of the polls is no surprise and might even benefit Conservatives who have become too complacent

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