Trump’s man in Ottawa takes questions U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra joins the Playbook Canada podcast. Meanwhile, back in Ottawa, the Conservatives gain momentum while the resignation of Canada’s top diplomat could trigger a larger shakeu...

We got US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra on the Playbook Canada pod.

We talk Trump & which Canadian needs to pick up the phone to get trade talks going again

Hint: It's not who you think! 🤣

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Marc Miller tests Carney’s rules Mark Carney battles pipeline fallout and adds a new and potentially disruptive face to his Cabinet. Then, Northwest Territories Premier R.J. Simpson joins the Playbook Canada podcast.

This week's episode of the Playbook Canada podcast is out! We talk:

— Mark Miller tests Carney’s rules
— Pipeline/MOU fallout
— And 200-seconds with NWT Premier R.J. Simpson

🎧 or subscribe on Apple/Spotify. Or listen below:

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‘Who cares’ about a pipeline? Mark Carney and Danielle Smith inch toward a pipeline détente, while Pierre Poilievre shakes up his campaign team — all on this week’s Playbook Canada podcast.

On this week's episode of the Playbook Canada podcast:

— The blooming alliance between Mark Carney and Danielle Smith.
— Poilievre's new campaign manager.
— And 200-seconds with @ryanjespersen.bsky.social

🎧 pod.link/1848760192 or subscribe on Apple/Spotify

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Budget, betrayal and bird flu Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne joins the Playbook Canada podcast after unveiling the budget and witnessing a critical Conservative defection.

🎧The second episode of the Playbook Canada podcast is out!

🎙️ We talk: Budget, betrayal and bird flu

And a 200-second interview with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne who tells us about his favorite rapper.

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Playbook Canada Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Each week, POLITICO’s Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric bring to life the stories that are driving the news in Ottawa and beyond  — drawing on their deep repor...

🚨Secret’s out.

Starting this week, you can hear “Playbook Canada” — not just read it.

I’ll be co-hosting alongside @TaylorVaisey

🎙️ The news podcast drops every Thursday morning starting Oct. 30.

🎧 Listen to the trailer + subscribe

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Canada Playbook Canada-U.S. relations depend on what comes next.<br/>

🇨🇦 Today, Ottawa Playbook newsletter relaunched as Canada Playbook.

We’ll deliver newsbreaking, urgent reporting both on Ottawa's political bubble and on the larger crisis in Canadian and North American politics.

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Trump to Carney: I’m just not that into you He’s not Justin Trudeau. But Canada’s new leader still has his work cut out for him.

White House officials:

“Just another world leader coming to visit. One of many”

“No bells and whistles for the new guy”

“It’s really just to check a box”

Trudeau who? Why Donald Trump hearts Mark Carney.

Today’s Ottawa Playbook:

→ Why Trump hearts Carney.

→ Premiers vs. Poilievre.

→ Ralph Goodale on diplomatic dignity and the 51st state.

→ A career update from Jonathan Pedneault.

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In February when Pierre Poilievre was holding a rally in downtown Ottawa, Bruce Fanjoy was door-knocking in Carleton.

I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.

Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.

Ottawa Playbook Randy Boissonnault lost his seat at the Cabinet table. We have questions.

Today's Ottawa Playbook:

→ Donald Trump picks an ambassador to Canada.
→ Randy Boissonnault loses his seat at the Cabinet table.
→ An emerging parliamentary detente between the Liberals and NDP

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The UN's COP29 climate summit is slowly beginning to wrap up.

Negotiating texts began to drop overnight, but there’s a long way to go, Global Playbook's Suzanne Lynch reports from Baku.

Read today's newsletter for more: www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...

Gone but not forgotten: Trump aims to revive the Keystone XL pipeline The company behind the project cancelled it and the steel that was in ground has been removed, but it's on the president-elect's energy to-do list.

Now outside the paywall:

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POLITICO's Suzanne Lynch is reporting from Baku, where the second week of the UN COP climate negotiations is in full swing.

Read today's Global Playbook for the full rundown: www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...

The Fall: My once-vibrant dad emerged broken from the hospital. Then he was gone. A longtime health reporter, Elizabeth Payne thought she understood Canada's failing health-care system. Then her dad fell.

I spent a long time writing, and living through, this story about my dad's healthcare journey. It's the most widely read, and consequential, piece I have ever written. Posting it here for anyone interested who may not have seen it. ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-...

I am now here. Get at me if you are, too.

Trump taps oil executive Chris Wright as Energy secretary The oil executive and GOP fundraiser disputes the need to fight against climate change.

Trump’s pick for DOE puts an oil CEO hostile to climate science who favors more fossil fuel production in charge of major energy research programs — and gobs of money from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Trump’s power plays overshadow global climate summit Donald Trump isn’t at COP29, but his rapid-fire personnel moves to dismantle Joe Biden’s climate legacy are being felt there.

You’d be forgiven if what’s going on in Baku at COP29 felt like an alternate reality from the full-steam-ahead nature of Trump’s transition in DC. Karl Mathiesen, Sara Schonhardt, @ziaweise.bsky.social and I break down the split screen on two divergent climate paths.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Azerbaijan craters its own climate conference The EU warns that Ilham Aliyev’s combative rhetoric is undermining negotiations.

A COP host’s main job is to smooth things over. Ilham Aliyev has other ideas.

The latest from POLITICO’s Zia Weise + Karl Mathiesen in Baku.

www.politico.eu/article/azer...

Trump’s power plays overshadow global climate summit Donald Trump isn’t at COP29, but his rapid-fire personnel moves to dismantle Joe Biden’s climate legacy are being felt there.

POLITICO’s Karl Mathiesen on the COP29 split screen between Baku and D.C.

With @zcolman.bsky.social @ziaweise.bsky.social + Sara Schonhardt

www.politico.eu/article/dona...