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Brian Mulroney — who, as Canada's 18th prime minister, steered the country through a tumultuous period in national and world affairs — has died. He was 84. His daughter Caroline Mulroney shared the news Thursday afternoon on social media. "On behalf of my mother and our family, it is with great sadness we announce the passing of my father, The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Canada's 18th Prime Minister. He died peacefully, surrounded by family," she said on X, formerly Twitter.

TORONTO -- With less than a week until election day, former U.S. president Barack Obama has waded into the fray to bolster the campaign of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, who he describes as his "friend." On Thursday afternoon, the popular former politician shared a tweet in which he appeared to reveal who he thinks should be Canada’s next prime minister. “Wishing my friend @JustinTrudeau the best in Canada’s upcoming election. Justin has been an effective leader and strong voice for democratic values, and I’m proud of the work we did together,”

The private-equity tycoon Stephen A. Schwarzman, backed by an array of mostly western blue-chip companies with interests in China, is creating a $300 million scholarship for study in China that he hopes will rival the Rhodes scholarship in prestige and influence. The programme, whose endowment represents one of the largest single gifts to education in the world and one of the largest philanthropic gifts ever in China, was announced by Mr. Schwarzman in Beijing on Sunday. The Schwarzman Scholars programme will pay all expenses for 200 students each year from around the world for a one-year master’s programme at Tsinghua...

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney–a close ideological ally of Margaret Thatcher and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan–said he drew inspiration from Mrs. Thatcher’s free-market policies to champion Canada’s key, but controversial, free-trade deal with the U.S., as well as tax reform that helped solidify Canada’s economic fundamentals long after he left office in 1993.

Canadian, U.S., and Mexican elites, including CEOS and politicians, have a plan to create common North American policies and further integrate our economies. This plan goes by various names and euphemisms, such as "deep integration", "NAFTA-plus", "harmonization", the "Big Idea", the "Grand Bargain", and the "North American Security and Prosperity Initiative". Regardless of which name your prefer, the end goal of all of these plans is to create a new political and economic entity named the North American Union (NAU) that would supercede the existing countries. Theoretically, it would be similar to and competetive with the European Union (EU). The...

Mulroney, Clarkson to attend Reagan funeral TORONTO - The governor general will represent Canada and a former prime minister will be a speaker at the state funeral of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan. Sources familiar with the funeral planning say Reagan's widow, Nancy, invited former prime minister Brian Mulroney to speak at the funeral, which is set for Friday in Washington. And the prime minister's office says Governor General Adrienne Clarkson will represent Canada at the ceremony. As of late Monday, Prime Minister Paul Martin was not planning to attend. In 1994, Reagan let the country know in a handwritten...

<p>The new and overriding predicate of American policy -- foreign, defense, security, domestic -- is to ensure that 9/11 never happens again. If the terrorists managed to mount a second such attack anywhere in the U.S., the consequences would be destructive for the nation and calamitous for the administration. The dominant unspoken thought of the president of the U.S. must therefore be: "I will take whatever action is required to protect America from attack so that it will not be said of me 50 years from today that I was asleep at the switch at a seminal moment in our history."</p>

The RCMP says its long-running investigation of Airbus sales and related deals will result in no further charges and among the first to be informed early yesterday was former prime minister Brian Mulroney, once at the centre of accusations in the controversial case. In a brief letter delivered to Mr. Mulroney, RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said that "after an exhaustive investigation in Canada and abroad" the national police force had concluded the "outstanding allegations cannot be substantiated and that no charges will be laid." Mr. Mulroney was extremely relieved to receive Commissioner Zaccardelli's letter, said Luc Lavoie, a spokesman for...

Says he's being led by popularity polls Goodwill with U.S. being squandered VALERIE LAWTON OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA—Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's stand against joining the invasion of Iraq shows he's a follower, not a leader, says Brian Mulroney, warning that Liberal "anti-Americanism" has poisoned Canada-U.S. relations. In a scathing assessment of the government's handling of the Iraq crisis, Mulroney, the former Tory prime minister, said Chrétien has abandoned long-standing allies such as the United States and Britain. "At a crucial, seminal moment in our history, we have repudiated our allies and our coalition partners of the past," he said in an...