Danielle Smith

The province has been waiting for months for the review and a figure from the province's actuary

In a post on Truth Social early on Wednesday, Donald Trump claimed his country is financially supporting its northern neighbour.

"We have a U.S. president(-elect) with a strong mandate, who is a powerful negotiator who can spot weakness from a mile away," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Tuesday.

The meeting of the 13 premiers, chaired by Ford, took place the same day as Chrystia Freeland resigned as federal finance minister, before she was set to present her government's fall economic statement.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump.

For all their talk about being fiscally prudent, Conservative politicians in Canada have more or less abandoned the idea of balancing the budget. 

Northern Gateway is a dead letter being written to a past that no longer exists, one that trades on a vision of the future in which global demand for fossil fuels will grow without end and supplies are constrained by geology or geopolitics.

Alberta is taking the federal government to court, saying Ottawa has failed to follow through on what Premier Danielle Smith calls necessary changes to a law governing resource development.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Alberta's plan to make greenhouse gas emissions data the property of the provincial government could lead to oil and gas companies breaking federal laws.

Unity among provinces and the federal government is critical in the face of the grave challenge posed by the threat of massive new import tariffs from Canada's closest trading partner, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday following an emergency first ministers' meeting.

Donald Trump has used its innate ability to sniff out weakness in others to cut down political foes in his own country, from former opponents like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz to his own vice-president. Now, with his latest tariff threat, he’s exposing the weakness of Conservatives north of the border.

Announcing an upcoming motion under her Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act on Tuesday, Smith said the government plans to challenge the cap in court when or if it becomes law, and that it will take the steps necessary to give the province exclusive authority and ownership of emissions data, ban federal employees from designated oil and gas facilities, and more.

Trump said the tariff will remain in place until both countries stop drugs, in particular fentanyl, and people from illegally crossing the borders. He said until those issues are solved Canada and Mexico will "pay a very big price!"

The president-elect posted to Truth Social on Monday he will sign an executive order imposing a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Canada and Mexico. He said the tariff will remain in place until both countries stop drugs, in particular fentanyl, and people from illegally crossing the borders.

He's baaaaaack. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is now the chairman of Alberta's Investment Management Corporation. Next up? A renewed push for an Alberta pension plan.