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Power & Politics
Power & Politics is the arena where decision-makers answer the questions that matter. Featuring hard-hitting political interviews and a cast of regular political panelists and critical thinkers, the program gives an insider's view of the continuously unfolding drama of the Canadian political sce...
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Automaker sells Ontario battery plant stake for just $100
The day after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Liberals' new auto strategy, automaker Stellantis announced it was selling its 49 per cent stak...
Weekly Wrap: Can Carney protect the auto sector? Can anyone?
The Liberals' new auto strategy ditches the EV mandate and downgrades ambitions for emissions savings, while still pouring billions into encouraging a...
The EV mandate is dead. Can a new plan rescue the auto sector?
Prime Minister Mark Carney's new auto strategy ditches the Trudeau-era electric vehicle mandate in favour of stronger emissions standards, revives EV...
Canada pumps the brakes as allies join U.S. minerals bloc
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited 50 countries to a critical minerals meeting in Washington to pitch a new 'preferential trade zone' that wo...
Liberals poach Ontario NDP deputy leader for federal candidate
The federal Liberals are facing the possibility of losing a third MP as Nate Erskine-Smith announces his renewed bid for Ontario Liberal leadership, b...
Can Poilievre turn a leadership win into election redemption?
An overwhelming majority of Conservative delegates voted to keep Pierre Poilievre as the leader of their party, but pollsters David Coletto and Shachi...
Conservative convention: Poilievre wins leadership vote with 87% support
In the end, it wasn't even close. After delegates' votes were counted late on Friday night at the Conservative convention in Calgary, Pierre Poilievre...
Conservatives vote on the future of Poilievre's leadership
Join Power & Politics on the floor of the Conservative convention in Calgary, just hours before delegates vote on whether Pierre Poilievre should rema...
U.S. confirms it met Alberta separatists. Is it 'treason'?
As Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Canada's premiers in Ottawa, the U.S. State Department confirmed it had met with a group of Alberta separatists...
Did B.C.'s 'borderline friendly' Alberta talks make pipeline progress?
After meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Ottawa, B.C. Premier David Eby says 'there wasn't any substantial...
Carney denies 'aggressively walking back' Davos speech to Trump
After U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Prime Minister Mark Carney of 'aggressively' reversing comments from his World Economic Forum spee...
Carney announces billions in rebates as cost-of-living stopgap
Prime Minister Mark Carney framed five years and an estimated $11-12 billion in GST rebate hikes as a 'bridge' to help Canadians in the near-term, as...
Trump’s threats and Carney’s pushback | Analysis from Washington
CBC’s new weekly podcast, Two Blocks from the White House, takes a clear-eyed look at what’s happening in the U.S. right now and what it means for Can...
Weekly Wrap: Carney tells the world to change. Will it listen?
Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump’s speeches in Davos laid out starkly opposed visions of the world order and Canada’s relati...
Conservatives mount their response to Carney's Davos address
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's video response to Prime Minister Mark Carney's address in Davos begins with praise for a 'well-crafted and eloq...
Was Carney's speech an election preview?
After Prime Minister Mark Carney's second speech on Canada's place in a changing global order this week, former prime minister Brian Mulroney's chief...
Trump warns Carney that 'Canada lives because of' U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Prime Minister Mark Carney's World Economic Forum address during his own speech in Davos, Switzerland, saying...
Carney delivers a eulogy for the old world order
In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Mark Carney told other nations that competing to appease the world's gre...
Trump vows he'll '100%' impose tariffs on allies over Greenland
U.S. President Donald Trump told NBC on Monday that he's following through with his threat for escalating tariffs on eight European allies if there's...
Could ‘America First’ mean Canada’s next? Analysis from CBC Washington
There’s a new CBC podcast we think you’ll enjoy. Two Blocks from the White House takes a clear-eyed look at what’s happening in the U.S. right now and...
Weekly Wrap: A Canada-China reset, but at what cost?
As Prime Minister Mark Carney gets an agreement for tariff relief in Beijing, he's hailing a new path forward with China — but facing concerns it's an...
Carney's China EV deal puts another crack in Team Canada
Prime Minister Mark Carney is leaving Beijing with an agreement for lower Chinese agricultural tariffs in exchange for a major carve-out from Canada's...
Can Carney secure tariff relief in China?
Canada and China reached an agreement on energy during Prime Minister Mark Carney's first day of talks in Beijing, but Chinese tariffs on agricultural...
Quebec's premier resigns. Is a sovereignty vote coming?
Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation on Wednesday, giving his CAQ party just months to find a new leader — and to reverse the sep...
Coastal First Nations remain opposed to B.C. pipeline after Carney meeting
Coastal First Nations in B.C. say their stance on a pipeline from Alberta to B.C. has not changed following a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney...
Canada walks diplomatic tightropes with China, India
With B.C. Premier David Eby on a trade mission in India and Prime Minister Mark Carney leaving for China to meet with President Xi Jinping this week,...
Weekly Wrap: Trump’s world order
The United States is reshaping the global order around Canada with military intervention in Venezuela, threats to annex a NATO ally and claims of ‘dom...
Freeland resigns, shaking things up for the close-to-majority Liberals
Chrystia Freeland has officially resigned her seat in the House of Commons, leaving the minority Liberal government now two seats shy of a majority. P...
Vance blames ICE shooting victim for 'tragedy of her own making'
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance says Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, is 'dead because she...
Fatal ICE shooting stokes fury in Minneapolis
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday less than two kilometres from where a police o...
White House says military 'always an option' to acquire Greenland
The White House clarified its ambitions for Greenland on Tuesday, stating that 'acquiring Greenland is a national security priority' for the U.S. and...
Trump says U.S. 'in charge' of Venezuela, threatens more countries
After arresting the president of Venezuela, U.S. President Donald Trump is issuing new threats, warnings and predictions of collapse for Colombia, Cub...
Political Pulse panel on stories to watch in 2026
Power and Politics' panel of political insiders — Greg MacEachern, Melanie Richer and Fred DeLorey — on Canadian political stories to watch in 2026.
The top five political newsmakers of 2025
Host David Cochrane and Power Panelists Laura D’Angelo, Tim Powers, Jordan Leichnitz and Charelle Evelyn count down the top five political newsmakers...
Year-End Reporter Roundtable
Host David Cochrane and the Reporter Roundtable panel reflect on events of 2025 from the federal election to Trump’s trade war.
Yearly Wrap: How 2025 turned political fortunes upside down
For a year that changed just about everything we know about the Canadian political landscape, Power & Politics is upgrading the final Weekly Wrap podc...
How an NDP review explains its worst-ever election result
The NDP released an internal review of the election campaign that wiped out more than two-thirds of its caucus on Friday, which avoids casting blame o...
Top U.S. trade official lays out demands for CUSMA talks
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Congress on Wednesday that the review of the North American trade deal 'depends on' resolving a list of...
Carney on floor-crossers: 'MPs are attracted to what we're doing'
CBC's Rosemary Barton debriefs on her one-on-one interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney, where Carney didn't answer when asked if there's an active...
Carney says Canada won't meet climate targets with current policy
Prime Minister Mark Carney tells Radio-Canada that he's making a major change to a 'pragmatic' climate policy, but that the policies Canada currently...