The new Canadian Prime Minister narrowly avoids a clash in the Oval Office, but the president persists: "Never say never". Tuesday's meeting between the president of United States and the Prime Minister of Canada should have been a mere formality between two neighbors,

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked President Donald Trump not to call Canada the 51st state of the United States as he did under Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau. During a press conference on the roof of the Canadian Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue,

But 10 years later, in a more dangerous world, they made a different choice, picking Mark Carney, an economist with a far longer résumé: He has, for one thing, headed two central banks. Carney won the election last month by presenting himself as an ultra-qualified Mr.