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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — In her 2017 track “Power”, pop superstar Katy Perry warned to not “mistake my warmth for weakness.” On Tuesday, she watched her beau Justin Trudeau argue that it’s a mistake to underestimate soft power amid instability not seen in 80 years.
On Tuesday, the former prime minister gave a keynote address at Brand Finance’s Global Soft Power Summit on the margins of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
As Perry watched impassively from the front row, Trudeau told the crowd of roughly 100 attendees and journalists that democracy is “backsliding” everywhere...
January 20, 2026 - 07:48 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says he has shared his concerns with his Ontario counterpart and says given trade tensions with the U-S, now is not the time for measures that weaken Canadian supply chains.
January 20, 2026 - 07:33 | | CBC News - Canada
Canada will not be paying a reported US$1-billion membership fee to participate in Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Tuesday in comments that suggest Ottawa is still weighing whether to join.Mr. Champagne, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, would not say whether the fact that Mr. Trump had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to join the “Board of Peace” would affect Canada’s position.
January 20, 2026 - 06:35 | Steven Chase | The Globe and Mail
As day follows night, the United States’ intervention in Venezuela triggered Canada’s favourite response to international calamity: a call for more pipelines.
Not just any pipelines, of course. “Canada must immediately approve a pipeline to the Pacific Coast,” declared federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney a few days later. He was late to the party—the demand had already been made by Alberta premier Danielle Smith and captains of the oil patch, as well as the Globe and Mail’s editorial board. “A new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast isn’t...
January 20, 2026 - 06:30 | Arno Kopecky | Walrus
Quebec polls in recent years—decades, even—have consistently shown that if a referendum on sovereignty were held today, a clear majority of voters would vote against it.
Is that certainty misleading? There are indications, after all, that the Parti Québécois’ rising popularity since 2023 coincided with renewed enthusiasm among independence supporters. Support for the PQ increased after its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, pledged, in 2023, to hold a third referendum on sovereignty at the same time as the governing Coalition Avenir Québec began to falter.
Many CAQ supporters have...
January 20, 2026 - 06:29 | Philippe J. Fournier | Walrus
Quebec's finance minister says he has shared his concerns with his Ontario counterpart about that province's intention to remove Crown Royal whisky from liquor stores.
January 20, 2026 - 06:19 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
