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Prime Minister Mark Carney Says US Is Trying to Break Canada as Alberta Votes on Separation Path

Prime Minister Mark Carney Says US Is Trying to Break Canada as Alberta Votes on Separation Path

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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Thursday that the United States is trying to break Canada so it can “own us” as he urged oil-rich Alberta not to begin a process toward separation in Monday’s referendum. The vote is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, which has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, will decide whether to remain a province or instruct the government to begin the legal process toward a future referendum on separation. “This referendum comes at the worst possible time,” Carney told a large pro-Canada rally in Calgary. “The world has become more dangerous and divided. Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us.” He did not directly mention the U.S. or its President Donald Trump in that passage, but has done so in similar past speeches. Carney’s warning came as U.S. President Donald Trump wages a trade war with Canada and after his repeated threats to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. Carney has argued that Canada needs to become …

Canada’s Carney calls for unity as Alberta prepares for secession vote | Elections News

Canada’s Carney calls for unity as Alberta prepares for secession vote | Elections News

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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Thanksgiving message comes a week ahead of Alberta’s vote on a separatism referendum. Published On 12 Oct 202612 Oct 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney has used his Thanksgiving message to Canadians to call for national unity, a week before the oil-rich province of Alberta is set to vote on a proposal to secede from Canada. “We can’t build big things on fault lines,” Carney said in his video message on Monday, warning that Canada faces threats to its economy, security and way of life. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “We have to be strong, and we are stronger together.” His comments come as Albertans head to the polls on October 19 to decide whether to begin the process of seeking independence. The initial referendum is non-binding, but it proposes to hold a binding vote in the future to decide whether Alberta should secede. The question facing voters is: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution …

Macron, Carney hail new chapter in France-Canada ties at symbolic archipelago meeting

Macron, Carney hail new chapter in France-Canada ties at symbolic archipelago meeting

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French President ​Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on ​Sunday called for stronger bilateral ties in the face of new global threats at a meeting on Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French territory off Canada’s Newfoundland. The first-ever visit by a Canadian leader to the North Atlantic archipelago came as both countries have increasingly awkward relations with the US.  Keywords for this article Source link

France’s Macron hosts Canadian PM Carney amid US tensions

France’s Macron hosts Canadian PM Carney amid US tensions

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President Emmanuel Macron embarks on a rare and symbolic visit to a remote French territory in the North Atlantic on Saturday, hosting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at a time of growing tensions with Washington. This comes after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU’s first associate member. Analysis by Guillaume Lavoie, associate member of the Raoul-Dandurand chair in strategic and diplomatic studies. Keywords for this article Source link

Carney welcomes EU invite for Canada to become first associate member

Carney welcomes EU invite for Canada to become first associate member

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech in the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, as part of a trip during which he welcomed a proposal by European Commission President for Canada to become the EU’s first associate member, on September 17, 2026. Jean-christophe Verhaegen | Afp | Getty Images Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday welcomed the European Union’s ambition to make Ottawa an associate member of the 27-nation bloc and said Canadian lawmakers would ultimately vote on the final structure of the alliance. “Canada and Europe are each strong. Europe and Canada are stronger together,” Carney told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France. Canada’s prime minister did not name President Donald Trump in his speech, but he nodded to his U.S. counterpart’s use of tariffs by saying, “Economic integration is now being weaponized — tariffs being used to exert pressure.” Speaking in French, Carney continued: “Financial mechanisms have been used for coercion. Supply chains constitute weak points to be exploited.” His comments come shortly after Trump described the prospect …

Canada’s Carney and Britain’s Burnham Take First Meeting to Everton Football Match

Canada’s Carney and Britain’s Burnham Take First Meeting to Everton Football Match

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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet his new British counterpart, Andy Burnham, for the first time Wednesday at the home of the soccer club they both support — before watching Everton play together. Carney and Burnham will hold bilateral talks at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool before watching the club face Wolverhampton in the third round of the Carabao Cup. The setting adds a personal element to their first face-to-face meeting. Burnham is a lifelong Everton supporter and season-ticket holder, while Carney has said cousins in Liverpool led him to support the club. Carney attended Everton matches while living in Britain during his seven years as governor of the Bank of England. When the two leaders spoke shortly after Burnham became prime minister in July, Burnham promised to “roll out the blue carpet” for his fellow Everton supporter. Downing Street said Burnham canceled all public engagements Monday and Tuesday following the death of his father, who was 86 and had Alzheimer’s disease. A senior Canadian government official said Carney …

‘Maybe They’ll Shoot You’: Mark Carney Reveals Trump’s Warning After Giving Him Bizarre Gift

‘Maybe They’ll Shoot You’: Mark Carney Reveals Trump’s Warning After Giving Him Bizarre Gift

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Donald Trump and Mark Carney in France in June. via Associated Press Donald Trump warned Mark Carney he could be shot after giving him a bizarre gift at the White House, it has emerged. The US president gave the Canadian prime minister “something really special” at the White House last year. Carney – whose country is now locked in a trade war with the US after relations between the two countries broke down – revealed the odd exchange in an interview. He said: “I went to the White House in the spring of last year, and at the end of the meeting the president said ‘Mark, I want to give you something really special’. “And I opened this box and it’s this big gold key. I was like ‘wow, Mr President, this is fantastic’. “He says ‘yeah, it’s the key to the White House. You just bring it, they let you in. And then he says ‘maybe they’ll shoot you’.” Laughing, Carney added: “And that sort of sums of the relationship that we have.” Trade …

Mark Carney pitches Canada to global investors amid US trade war | Business and Economy News

Mark Carney pitches Canada to global investors amid US trade war | Business and Economy News

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For decades, one of Canada’s biggest selling points to foreign investors was its access to the world’s largest economy next door. Prime Minister Mark Carney is now trying to sell something bigger — to bet on Canada itself. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of global investors will gather in Toronto for the Canada Investment Summit. The invitation-only meeting will bring some of the world’s largest pension and sovereign wealth funds and asset managers together with corporate executives, Canadian premiers and federal officials. Carney, a former central banker with deep ties to the global investment world, wants them to put money into everything from mines and pipelines to ports, artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing. It is part of a much bigger push to catalyse $1 trillion in investment in Canada over the next five years, with about $280bn in public investment and government incentives to help draw in private and institutional capital. The summit comes just days after another escalation in Canada’s trade war with the United States …

Carney: Latest Trump trade moves ‘relatively modest’

Carney: Latest Trump trade moves ‘relatively modest’

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that President Trump’s latest round of tariffs is “relatively modest” compared with the United States’s past moves.  When talking with reporters at a Cabinet retreat in Banff, Alberta, Carney was asked if Canada was going to retaliate to added U.S. tariffs. Carney said that his government was analyzing… Source link