Requests by the prime minister to the governor-general are rubber-stamped. Simon’s office holds a constitutional and ceremonial role as the representative of Canada’s head of state, U.K. King Charles ...

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Mark Carney is a newcomer to elected politics, with decades of experience in finance. After his landslide victory, he pledged ...

Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister on March 14, 2025, succeeding Justin Trudeau. The ceremony will be presided over by Governor General Mary Simon.

The new prime minister is facing an escalating trade war with the US as well as calls for Canada to become the 51st state.

Carney, 59, will take the reins of his country at a time when it is locked in a trade war with the U.S., its largest trade partner.

Notice was posted on the government’s official publication late Friday that Governor General Mary Simon had cancelled Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada through an order she signed in early January.

dropping the “governor” moniker he applied to predecessor Justin Trudeau. “I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

By 2008, he was serving as governor of Canada’s central bank, stepping into the job as the world plunged into the Great Recession. During his campaign to lead the Liberal Party, Carney pointed ...

Justin Trudeau, who was first elected prime minister in November 2015, announced on Jan. 6 his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader and prime minister.

Carney, 59, a Harvard grad, will oversee his country at a time when it is locked in a trade war with the United States, its largest trading partner.

The Canada Council for the Arts revealed the 2025 winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts on Wednesday (5 March). At a time when US President Donald Trump has ...