Canada
‘51st state? Not going to happen’: Trudeau slams Trump annexation threat
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joins Jen Psaki for a wide-ranging conversation on Trump's proposal to enact a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods, Trump's call to make Canada the "51st state," and global anti-incumbent trends.
‘It’s a rebuilding process’: former deputy PM Sheila Copps on the Liberal leadership
The next Liberal leader will need to “stick it out for the long term,” former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps says following Justin Trudeau's resignation announcement. Quite agree with Ms. Copps. If you want to be Liberal leader now, your life plan likely needs to account for four years (at least) of criss-crossing Canada re-building a badly beat-up brand and then, if you're really lucky, winning a general election in 2030 and then after all that, do you want to be PM for just 4 years or 8? So if you are serious about the Liberal leadership job, you're likely committing to the next decade, maybe more, of your life. Related: Mark Carney is 59, Freeland is 56, Clark is 59.
Statement from Steven MacKinnon
"Unfortunately, the time available does not allow me to mount the kind of campaign that I would want to run."
As Trump threatens Canada, ‘there’s something dangerous brewing’: analyst
David Frum says the fact the incoming U.S. president keeps repeating the idea of taking over Canada means he's eying some kind of aggression.
U.S. will ‘suffer much more’: Chrétien on possible trade war
Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien speaks on the threats of tariffs towards Canada from the U.S.
Canada's Trudeau urges US consumers to consider the harm of Trump's tariff threats
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suggested that President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks about Canada becoming America’s “51st state” is distracting the public from the harm that steep tariffs would have on U.S. consumers.
Joel Harden wins federal NDP nomination for Ottawa Centre
The NDP has announced Ontario MPP Joel Harden will be the party's candidate for Ottawa Centre in the next federal election. While some are rather bearish on the NDP's chance if a general election were held today, I believe the NDP's House of Commons caucus might be roughly the same size -- maybe even a little bigger - albeit with a decidely eastern tilt. There are seats in Western Canada that might fall to the CPC but in eastern Canada, the NDP stands to benefit from falling Liberal fortunes and Ottawa Centre is one of those ridings. The incumbent, Yasir Naqvi, is a diligent campaigner but it may not be enough to ward off the challenge from Harden: I have the NDP, right now, in model, winning by nearly 10 points.
Julie Vignola de nouveau candidate pour le Bloc québécois dans Beauport
Députée bloquiste dans la circonscription de Beauport - Limoilou depuis 2019, Julie Vignola confirme qu'elle sera de nouveau sur les blocs de départ au moment du déclenchement des prochaines élections fédérales. There are two ridings in Québec's National Capital Region that are shaping up to be tight BQ-CPC fights: This is one and the other is Beauport--Limoilou, where BQ MP Caroline Desbiens is the incumbent. Both, in my model, would be toss-ups with a slight edge at this point to the CPC.
Delays, Trudeau resignation threaten Toronto-Quebec City high-frequency rail project
Canadians hoping plans for high-frequency rail between Toronto and Quebec City would move forward this year will instead see further delays.
The Provinces
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Canada's top politicians have spent several weeks attempting to convince U.S. president-elect Donald Trump not to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. This includes Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this past weekend. On Global National Heather Yourex-West looks at what the two discussed and whether Smith's last-ditch effort will influence Trump, who officially returns to office next week.
Quebec Liberals ‘at a crossroads’ as leadership race kicks off Monday
As the federal Liberals prepare to choose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s successor, another Liberal leadership race is getting underway in Quebec this week.
Elsewhere
German far-right party adopts radical program promising 'remigration'
The program adopted on Sunday includes the controversial term “remigration,” used by right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis to describe the mass deportation of migrants and people with foreign roots after Weidel (who had previously avoided the term) used it publicly on Saturday.
South Korea says 300 North Korean soldiers killed in Ukraine
Around 300 North Korean soldiers have been killed and 2,700 others injured in Russia’s war in Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in a closed briefing Monday.
Media
With Conservatives promising to 'defund,' could the next election kill the CBC?
That means the CBC's current role, its prospects for reform and its very existence are set to become election issues in the coming campaign. Peter Menzies, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, predicted "the CBC will find itself in the very ticklish position of reporting on an election campaign in which it is a significant feature."
Science and tech
The CES worst in show awards lampoon AI everthing
As they have for the past several years, a group of repairability, sustainability, and privacy advocates have come together to present the [Consumer Electronics Show] Worst in Show awards again this year. Six categories of failure are awarded by the participants annually, with products being lampooned for being unrepairable, insecure, privacy nightmares, environmentally unfriendly, generally unasked for, and just plain worst of the show.
