Carney unveils new cabinet amid mixed regional reactions and shifts

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 1:23 pm

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s fresh cabinet lineup is sparking both accolades and criticism across the country. The new appointments—including an AI minister in a move that sees former broadcaster Evan Solomon take the helm—are being closely scrutinized for regional representation and policy direction.


winnipegfreepress.com / 944 needles in 16 parks over 10 days

City staff tasked with removing dangerous debris from downtown parks collected 944 needles from the sites in a little over a week. Two staff also picked up 239 pipes, 28 […]

lapresse.ca / Cabinet Carney | Changement de portefeuille : Mélanie Joly affirme que son vœu a été exaucé

Mélanie Joly a « adoré » son passage aux Affaires étrangères. Mais elle est ravie de renouer avec un portefeuille économique, qu’elle avait d’ailleurs demandé au premier ministre Mark Carney.

ledevoir.com / Quelle place pour le Québec au sein du cabinet Carney?

Mélanie Joly a demandé elle-même à Mark Carney de passer au portefeuille de l’Industrie, assure-t-elle.

calgaryherald.com / Braid: Carney snubbed Calgary by passing up a brilliant choice for cabinet

Calgary's only Liberal MP, Corey Hogan was not given a cabinet position Tuesday

edmontonjournal.com / Lorne Gunter: Carney cabinet as radically ‘green’ as Trudeau's

The Parliamentary press gallery is all aglow over Mark Carney’s new cabinet. It’s so much smaller than Justin Trudeau’s last cabinet, they beam. And its full of so many rookies. Surely that proves Carney intends a clean break with the Trudeau past. Umm. How about ‘No.’ It’s true, there are “just”…

globalnews.ca / What Carney’s internal trade pick signals about hope for axing barriers

Among Prime Minister Mark Carney's newly appointed cabinet picks, Dominic LeBlanc stands out as one of the main players tasked with bringing down interprovincial trade barriers.

torontosun.com / EDITORIAL: PM’s cabinet grows 65% in two months

We can only hope the size of Canada’s public service doesn’t increase the same way Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet did on Tuesday.  Carney’s new cabinet, with 38 members, is 65% larger than the 23-member cabinet he announced on March 14, after being elected Liberal leader.  That was 10 days…

globalnews.ca / Alberta premier’s chief of staff criticizes Carney’s pick for new federal environment minister

Rob Anderson took to social media Tuesday to air his misgivings about new Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin.

globalnews.ca / Manitoba MP Rebecca Chartrand named to Prime Minister Carney’s new cabinet

Rebecca Chartrand has been named minister of northern and Arctic affairs, as well as minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.

thehub.ca / Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: Mark Carney’s ‘old is new’ cabinet puts ‘blue’ Liberals on their back foot

The post Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: Mark Carney’s ‘old is new’ cabinet puts ‘blue’ Liberals on their back foot appeared first on The Hub.

nationalpost.com / Michael Higgins: Carney’s cabinet of Trudeau failures

Canadians thought Carney would bring change. They were wrong

ledevoir.com / Le gouvernement Carney en un coup d’œil

Retour sur le nouveau cabinet du premier ministre en quelques graphiques.

calgaryherald.com / Ex-banker Timothy Hodgson answers Mark Carney's call to fix resources sector

The first time Timothy Hodgson was asked by Mark Carney to come to Ottawa, he left behind an investment banking career at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that had seen him climb the ranks to lead its Canadian business. That assignment — an 18-month stint as a special adviser to Carney at the Bank of…

winnipegfreepress.com / Winnipeg at significant disadvantage without a voice at Carney’s cabinet table

It’s an all-too-familiar feeling in Manitoba these days: a sense of being overlooked by Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his much-anticipated cabinet Tuesday — a leaner, more “efficient” group, […]

lapresse.ca / Gouvernement Carney | Quel rôle jouent les secrétaires d’État ?

En plus de nommer mardi les 28 ministres qui formeront son Cabinet, Mark Carney a présenté 10 secrétaires d’État chargés de différents enjeux prioritaires pour son gouvernement.

ledevoir.com / Le poste de ministre des Langues officielles est de retour à Ottawa

Steven Guilbeault devient ministre de l’Identité et de la Culture canadienne et responsable des Langues officielles.

nationalpost.com / Carney’s new cabinet produced many winners and the losers. Here are a few

The new cabinet includes many new faces and several notable names who have been left out

nationalpost.com / ‘We have not kept pace’: Former broadcaster Evan Solomon faces big challenge as first AI minister

The former journalist will face a range of thorny challenges in his new role

nationalpost.com / Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney’s cabinet still looks a lot like Trudeau’s

He's prioritizing economic development, but not in the West

globalnews.ca / Mark Carney’s cabinet: 5 B.C. MPs given positions

Gregor Robertson, the former Vancouver mayor and the new MP for Vancouver Fraserview-South Burnaby, will be the housing and infrastructure minister.

thestar.com / Alberta premier's chief of staff criticizes new federal environment minister

Rob Anderson is sounding the alarm over Prime Minister Mark Carney's pick to head up the government's environment portfolio.

financialpost.com / These are the Carney cabinet picks that business leaders will be watching

Prime minister leaves some familiar faces in place on important economic files, but there are new ones, too

thestar.com / Former broadcaster Evan Solomon named AI minister

OTTAWA - Former television host Evan Solomon will take up the new role of minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation in Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet.


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