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Trump takes center stage in Canada’s prime minister election debate

President Donald Trump is the greatest challenge Canada is facing, Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a Wednesday night electoral debate with conservative challenger Pierre Poilievre.
«This election [is about] the question of who will succeed, and who will face up to Trump,» Carney said in French, according to a Reuters translation.
His comments came in retort to Poilievre, who moments prior, had accused him of being too similar to Justin Trudeau, who stepped down from the top job earlier this year following a rapid decline in approval ratings.
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Canada, on March 27, 2025. (David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«We are in a crisis. The most serious crisis of our lives,» Carney reportedly added. «We have to react with strength, which will allow us to succeed with Trump.»
Carney, who was voted into the role by the governing Liberal Party last month in a landslide win, is believed to be the favored candidate to win the prime minister’s seat in a nationwide election later this month, though recent polling suggests polling margins could be narrowing.
Just prior to Trudeau’s exit, the Liberal Party was expected to take a nosedive in the federal election against Poiliervre’s Conservative Party – but Trump appears to have changed all that.
Immense concern over a trade war with the U.S. and Trump’s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state have rallied support once again for the Liberal Party under Carney.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Reports suggest that Carney is now viewed as the candidate more equipped to take on the tough negotiations that Canada will face to ease the steep tariffs Trump implemented this year.
Poilievre has also reportedly faced a drop in support for his Canada First message, which some reports suggest may be too similar a message to Trump’s America First agenda.
The conservative candidate has also reportedly faced criticism within his own party for not responding fast enough to the threat posed by the U.S. president.
Some reporting has suggested the race to be Canada’s next prime minister could be narrowing between Poilievre and Carney.
Canadians concerned by cost-of-living tend to back Poilievere, according to a Politico report, while voters concerned with the economy and relations with the U.S. tend to back Carney.

Canada Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a news conference in Ottawa, on Dec. 1, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Poilievere has been in the political sphere since 2004, when he entered Canada’s Parliament.
Carney’s background is in running first the Bank of Canada in 2008 and then the Bank of England in 2013 – prompting some to believe he may be best suited to take on the financial crisis looming over Canada amid Trump’s tariff war.
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Here’s what happened during Trump’s 13th week in office

President Donald Trump met with foreign leaders from El Salvador and Italy this week, advancing negotiations on both trade and immigration issues at the White House.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Washington during a pause in steep tariffs against the European Union and other countries that could go into effect in June. But both Trump and Meloni voiced optimism that the two countries would secure a deal before then.
«There will be a trade deal, 100%,» Trump told reporters at the White House Thursday. «Of course there will be a trade deal, they want to make one very much, and we’re going to make a trade deal. I fully expect it, but it’ll be a fair deal.»
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When asked whether she still considered the U.S. a reliable trading partner due to changes related to tariff policy, Meloni said that she wouldn’t have made the trek to the White House unless it were so. Meloni said her objective for the trip was to invite Trump to meetings on behalf of Italy and Europe to foster a trade negotiation between the two states.
«I think the best way is that we simply speak frankly about the needs that every one of us has and find ourselves in the middle for that’s useful for all,» Meloni told reporters Thursday.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance met with Meloni Friday in Rome to continue discussing economic policies between the two countries.
Here’s what also happened this week:
Visit with Bukele
Trump kicked off the week meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Monday, launching a debate about whether El Salvador should return Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego-Garcia after he was deported there.
On Monday, Trump administration officials and Bukele agreed that they didn’t have the authority to return Abrego-Garcia to the U.S., even though the Trump administration admitted in court filings that he was deported in an «administrative error.» Even so, the Trump administration has accused Abrego-Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang, a designated terrorist group.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court upheld in April a lower court’s order that «requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.»
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025 (Al Drago for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
While Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Monday that El Salvador would call the final shots on whether it would return Abrego-Garcia, Bukele said it was «preposterous» for El Salvador to do so.
«How can I smuggle a terrorist into the U.S.? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States,» Bukele said.
Additionally, the Justice Department unveiled documents Wednesday detailing domestic violence allegations that Abrego-Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez, included in a court filing in 2021. Vasquez alleged in the filing that Garcia beat her and that she had documentation of the bruises he left on her.
Feud with Harvard
The Trump administration also continued to go after federal funding at higher education institutions.
After Harvard refused to comply with a series of requests from the Trump administration to reform various practices on campus, the administration revealed Monday that it would freeze more than $2 billion in federal funding for the institution.
Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a Monday statement that the Trump administration included additional requests unrelated to tackling antisemitism on campus. As a result, Garber said the institution would not bend to those requests, claiming they were unconstitutional.
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Trump has publicly criticized Harvard University multiple times in recent weeks. (Getty Images | iStock)
Garber said the new requests «direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,» including auditing viewpoints of student, faculty and staff members on campus, and eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices and initiatives at Harvard.
«It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner,» Garber said. «We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement.»
Prescription drug prices
Trump also signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to combat soaring prescription drug prices.
The directive instructs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs, including those used for cancer patients, no matter where a patient receives treatment. This could lower prices for patients by as much as 60%, according to a White House fact sheet.
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A new White House directive instructs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to standardize Medicare payments for prescription drugs. (iStock/Getty )
The order also includes a provision to match the Medicare payment for certain prescription drugs to the price that hospitals pay for those drugs. That amounts to up to 35% lower than what the government pays to acquire those medications, the White House said.
Drug prices have significantly risen in recent years. Between January 2022 and January 2023, prescription drug prices rose more than 15% and reached an average of $590 per drug product, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Of the 4,200 prescription drugs included on that list, 46% of the price increases exceeded the rate of inflation.
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El Museo Nacional de Catar brilla con arte latinoamericano del Malba y la Colección Costantini

Desde Doha, Catar. En medio del paisaje costero de la capital catarí y sobre el bello paseo marítimo Corniche que ofrece una de las imágenes más espectaculares de la ciudad -con el skyline de sus famosos rascacielos, que por las noches resaltan iluminados con variedad de colores- emerge una de las joyas culturales más singulares de Oriente Medio: el Museo Nacional de Qatar (NMoQ), una institución concebida para narrar la historia de un país en plena transformación y ofrecer al mundo una visión profundamente enraizada en su identidad.
Inaugurado el 28 de marzo de 2019, el NMoQ ostenta una estructura monumental y es a la vez un símbolo de modernidad que dialoga con el pasado. Desde este lunes 21 y hasta el 19 de julio de 2025, como parte del Año de Cultura Qatar-Argentina-Chile 2025, esta joya de la arquitectura moderna es sede de la muestra LATINOAMERICANO. Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de las colecciones del Malba y Eduardo F. Costantini.
Diseñado por el arquitecto francés Jean Nouvel —ganador del Premio Pritzker—, el edificio se inspira en una formación mineral autóctona conocida como “rosa del desierto”, surgida por la acción conjunta del viento, el agua salina y la arena a lo largo de milenios. El resultado es un conjunto de discos entrelazados, de diversas curvaturas y tamaños, que se superponen creando una arquitectura desafiante y escultural. La estructura, que abarca 52 mil metros cuadrados, envuelve el restaurado Palacio del Jeque Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, corazón histórico del museo y antigua sede del gobierno qatarí.
El NMoQ fue concebido como una institución que articula la herencia cultural del país con su proyección hacia el porvenir. Su narrativa museográfica se despliega a lo largo de once galerías permanentes organizadas en tres grandes capítulos: los orígenes geológicos de la península, la vida cotidiana tradicional en el desierto y la costa, y la historia moderna del Estado de Qatar. El recorrido culmina en el Palacio del Jeque Abdullah, construido en 1906 y restaurado durante más de tres años para integrar esta experiencia museística inmersiva.
Cada una de las salas propone una experiencia multisensorial que combina imágenes de archivo, objetos patrimoniales, obras contemporáneas, sonidos, aromas y proyecciones a gran escala. Esta aproximación busca implicar no solo el intelecto del visitante, sino también sus emociones y sentidos, abriendo un diálogo entre el pasado remoto y el presente tecnológico.
Entre las piezas más destacadas de la colección figura la alfombra de perlas de Baroda, encargada por el maharajá de Baroda en 1865, que reúne más de un millón y medio de perlas junto a diamantes, rubíes, esmeraldas y zafiros, bordados en hilo de oro sobre seda y cuero de ciervo. Además, el museo alberga manuscritos, fotografías, joyas, vestimentas tradicionales, objetos arqueológicos y de la vida cotidiana, que dan cuenta no solo de la historia de Qatar, sino de la región en su conjunto.

La edificación del NMoQ no solo es una proeza estética y conceptual, sino también un hito en materia de sostenibilidad. Sus discos voladizos proporcionan sombra natural, y el uso de materiales locales y técnicas pasivas de climatización ha permitido que sea el primer museo en obtener tanto la certificación LEED Gold como una calificación de cuatro estrellas por el Sistema Global de Evaluación de la Sostenibilidad.
La disposición del museo emula una flor desértica que crece desde el suelo. Su color arena se funde con el entorno, y sus formas irregulares configuran espacios interiores únicos, imposibles de replicar en otro contexto. Nouvel describió su proyecto como “una estructura total”: arquitectónica, espacial y sensorial, donde el edificio mismo es parte del contenido que se exhibe.
El NMoQ se posiciona como un epicentro de diálogo intercultural, educación patrimonial e investigación académica. A través de sus centros de conservación, laboratorios científicos y programas educativos, contribuye a la preservación de la memoria colectiva del Golfo y al fortalecimiento de su identidad cultural. El complejo cuenta con un auditorio para 220 personas, galerías temporales, cafés, restaurante, tienda de regalos, salas para escuelas, áreas VIP y espacios para actividades al aire libre en su patio central, el *baraha*, donde se celebran eventos culturales y mercados tradicionales.

Desde su concepción, el museo fue el resultado de una construcción colectiva: durante más de una década, se organizaron reuniones con ciudadanos qataríes que aportaron sus relatos, fotografías y recuerdos, que hoy conforman el alma narrativa de la institución. Esta metodología participativa refuerza el compromiso del NMoQ con la autenticidad de los relatos y su conexión emocional con el público local.
La Directora del museo, Sheikha Amna bint Abdulaziz bin Jassim Al Thani, expresó que el NMoQ representa “un momento excepcional para conectar con personas de todo el mundo”. En ese sentido, la institución se alinea con la Visión Nacional Qatar 2030, cuyo objetivo es consolidar un país culturalmente diverso, sostenible y abierto al intercambio global.
Declarado como un ejemplo sobresaliente de valor universal por su arquitectura innovadora, su rol histórico y su contribución cultural, el museo integra elementos clave que lo hacen único: la recuperación patrimonial de un palacio histórico, el uso de materiales vernáculos y un diseño vanguardista que respeta la tradición. En este contexto, las obras de Frida Kahlo, Antonio Berni, Diego Rivera, Xul Solar y Remedios Varo entre otros, potencian su atractivo en la primera muestra a gran escala de arte latinoamericano en Asia occidental.
[Fotos: Qatar Creates]
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