Evan Dyer

2 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Verity Stevenson |Evan Dyer |Andrew Kurjata |Catharine Tunney

48 minutes agoConservatives drop another candidateVerity StevensonSimon Payette has been dropped as the Conservative Party candidate in the riding of Berthier-Maskinongé, following comments he made about Polytechnique survivor Nathalie Provost. (Radio-Canada)The Conservative Party has dropped a fifth candidate, this time in Quebec. The party ousted Simon Payette, my Radio-Canada colleague Laurence Martin has confirmed.

1 month ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

"Nobody knows that Canada is charging our dairy farmers," U.S. President Donald Trump complained Friday in the Oval Office. "They have 270 per cent tariffs. Nobody knows that. Nobody knows it. They have up to 400 per cent. They have a couple of tariffs at 400 per cent. Nobody knows that. Nobody talks about that."In fact some people have talked about it a lot, most prominently Trump himself and his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

1 month ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

Faintly, but not slowly, the outlines of a new world order are coming into view — a world order of large power blocs and with far fewer rules than the one that is now slipping away. It remains unclear where Canada will fit into that new world. But there are hints of what could be the path forward for this country as it grapples with the painful realization that its strongest and closest ally has turned on it, every new day bringing shocking evidence of Washington's embrace of the Kremlin.

1 month ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of annexation would likely not be the intelligence agencies directed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

It took a while for Canadian politicians to figure out that Donald Trump wasn't joking with his talk about annexing Canada. After Trump raised the idea at a dinner in Mar-A-Lago attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Nov. 29, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc said the "joke" was actually a positive. "The president was teasing us. It was, of course, in no way a serious comment," LeBlanc said.