Canada has a lot to feel anxious about as the U.S. presidential election draws to a close, but a former diplomat between the two countries says he’s particularly worried about “chaos” after the vote — including the “fairly high” potential for violence. David MacNaughton, who served as Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. from 2016 to…
Opinion polls in the U.S. presidential election are showing an extremely close race between U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — but polling experts say those numbers don’t always tell the whole story. While pollsters do everything they can to present accurate pictures of how voters are feeling or intend to vote, new methodologies…
Donald Trump, escalating the violent language he’s been using to target his political opponents, suggested guns be turned on former representative Liz Cheney, one of his more prominent intra-party critics. “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said in…
Canadians engrossed in the drama of the U.S. presidential election expect to gather in bars and living rooms to watch the votes roll in Tuesday, but many say the usual fanfare of watch parties will be muted by anxiety over the especially combative race. Dustin Herberman of Vaughan, Ont., says he’ll follow the results with…
A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration. Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods…
The world is watching the U.S. presidential election closely for clues on how a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump presidency will respond to mounting global challenges and security threats — and Canada could find itself in the spotlight in either scenario. Neither Trump nor Harris have made foreign policy a centrepiece of their campaigns, and…
The close U.S. presidential election between Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump could be decided on the issue of immigration, and either result will have implications for Canada. While the economy has been identified as a top concern among American voters, immigration is not far behind, with more people saying they want a clampdown at the…
As U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump fiercely battle for the White House in the U.S. election, they’ve largely focused their messages on the economy — and Canada is listening closely. More than 90 per cent of voters in a recent Ipsos poll said the economy and their personal economic situation will factor into…
Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, turning what his campaign had advertised as the event where he would deliver his closing message in the campaign’s final days to an illustration of what turns off his critics. Several speakers crudely insulted Democratic Vice President…
In his three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Donald Trump dug in on his false claims about voting, election fraud and his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Rogan helped encourage some of these claims. The interview, released late Friday, came on the same day that the former president, on his social media network, re-posted…
