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Canada to pick new PM today: Top contenders for Liberal Party leadership
Canada's new PM race: Four candidates—Carney, Freeland, Gould, and Baylis—but only Carney and Freeland are seen as serious contenders for the leadership.
Published on Mar 09, 2025 08:51 AM IST
HT News Desk | Written by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
Canada: Former central banker Mark Carney expected to win Liberal Party’s leadership race
The agency Mainstreet Research’s survey of Liberal Party voters indicated that Carney will defeat former Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland. As per that poll, he had 43% support as against 31% for Freeland
Published on Mar 02, 2025 11:31 AM IST
Canada Liberal Party leadership race: ‘Freeland’s campaign targeted by information campaign linked to China’
Chrystia Freeland, who was also finance minister, quit the government in December, precipitating a crisis which led to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement in early January that he intended to resign as leader of the ruling party once a successor was selected
Published on Feb 08, 2025 10:32 AM IST
Potential contenders to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister
CANADA-POLITICS/CONTENDERS (CORRECTED):REFILE-FACTBOX-Potential contenders to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister
Published on Jan 18, 2025 11:41 PM IST
Reuters |
Canada: Ex-Deputy PM Freeland, former Central banker Carney join race to succeed Trudeau
In a brief statement posted on X, Freeland, who was also finance minister at the time of her shock resignation in December, said, “I’m running to fight for Canada”
Published on Jan 17, 2025 10:01 PM IST
Canada's Trudeau likely to resign as Liberal Party leader this week: Report
Justin Trudeau has been under mounting pressure since Chrystia Freeland's resignation as his finance minister on 16 December.
Updated on Jan 06, 2025 02:16 PM IST
Canadian Liberal Party lawmakers to hold crucial meet to decide future of Trudeau
Of the 153 Liberal Party MPs in the House of Commons, over half have sought Trudeau’s resignation and that number could be approaching 100
Published on Jan 04, 2025 11:36 AM IST
Trudeau under fire; liberals eye freeland for leadership
That builds on the MPs already opposed to him continuing, believed to be over a third of the 153 from the ruling party
Published on Dec 22, 2024 03:32 PM IST
Trump takes brutal swipe at Justin Trudeau after top Canadian official's exit
President-elect Donald Trump slammed Chrystia Freeland as “toxic,” arguing that her exit was for the good of the country.
Published on Dec 17, 2024 11:22 PM IST
Arya Vaishnavi
Trudeau set to appoint Leblanc as Canada's finance minister amid govt turmoil
LeBlanc, 57, has been managing Canada’s border security amid US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
Published on Dec 17, 2024 03:03 AM IST
Bloomberg |
Question on tribute to Nijjar stumps Canadian deputy PM
In a video that has now gone viral on social media, a journalist asked Freeland on the paradox of honouring Nijjar despite past government actions against him
Updated on Jun 23, 2024 07:36 AM IST
Asian News International, Vancouver
Pandemic effect: Canada facing all-time high deficit of C$381 billion
Despite the high deficit, the government is preparing to spend up to an additional C$100 billion ($77.2 billion) to boost the economy
Updated on Dec 01, 2020 01:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Toronto | Anirudh Bhattacharyya
Canada deputy PM self-isolates after contact with Covid-positive person
Chrystia Freeland is the first high-profile Canadian to have quarantined after receiving a notification on the Covid app launched by the government.
Updated on Nov 02, 2020 06:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Toronto | Anirudh Bhattacharyya
Trump targets Canada, reimposing tariffs on aluminum
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland called the tariffs “unwarranted and unacceptable” and said Canada intends to swiftly impose dollar-for-dollar countermeasures.
Updated on Aug 07, 2020 05:33 AM IST
Associated Press | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Canada’s Trudeau pledges assault rifle ban, pivots campaign amid blackface scandal
Trudeau is campaigning in Toronto with less than five weeks to go before the Oct. 21 national election and two days after bombshell images of him in blackface emerged.
Updated on Sep 20, 2019 10:22 PM IST
TORONTO | Reuters
India talks tough with Canada on Khalistan
Jaishankar asks Canadian counterpart to address concerns to mend bilateral ties.
Published on Jul 06, 2019 10:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Toronto | Anirudh Bhattacharyya and Rezaul H Laskar
Justin Trudeau starts 2019 on the right note
As his government weans itself off authoritarian states and regains some of the chutzpah of the early months of its tenure, there ought to be a natural progression towards mending relations with countries like India, where the rule of law and institutions function in a manner familiar to democracies
Published on Jan 19, 2019 02:49 PM IST
Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso suspected to have been killed by terrorists
A body found with gunshot wounds late Wednesday is that of Kirk Woodman, “the Canadian who was kidnapped the day before yesterday,” ministerial spokesman Jean-Paul Badoum said.”
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 07:46 AM IST
Agence France-Presse | Agence France-Presse
After alleged abuse, Saudi teen refugee in Canada wants to fight for women
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun captured the world’s attention with a trail of tweets from her hotel room at Bangkok’s airport, where she holed up after Thai authorities initially barred her from travelling on to Australia.
Updated on Jan 16, 2019 08:57 AM IST
Toronto | Agence France-Presse
‘Don’t treat Kingdom as banana republic’, Saudi Arabia tells Canada
In August, Saudi Arabia froze new trade with Canada, blocked grain imports, expelled Canada’s ambassador and ordered all Saudi students home after Ottawa called for the release of activists detained for urging more rights for women.
Updated on Sep 28, 2018 10:18 AM IST
United Nations | Reuters
Jaspal Atwal row: Meeting of Indian, Canadian foreign ministers called off
Sushma Swaraj had been expected to meet Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland in the last week of April for a dialogue after the latter invited her to Ottawa.
Updated on Apr 11, 2018 12:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Toronto | Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Toronto