Canada's close defence and intelligence ties with U.S. make inter-operabillity, or the ability for jets to work seamlessly across various systems, a key factor.

The NATO snickering may not harm Canada-U.S. relations immediately but if it does, Trudeau may pay a price with Canadian voters.

PNWER, a group consisting of 10 states, provinces and territories, called upon the U.S. and Canadian federal governments to ratify the new free trade deal.

“I find this staggering amount of time away from post very troubling and an abdication of leadership," said Bob Menendez, top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Ambassador Nimrod Barkan says Canada-Israel relations are like a long-married couple: they may have disagreements, but they are still close.

Jim Mattis announced Thursday that he'd resign as of the end of February, in a move widely seen as a rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't ruling out the possibility that Canada will ratify its new North American trade deal with the United States and Mexico even if U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports are still in place.

The U.S. ambassador to Canada, Kelly Craft, praised Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in conversations at a reception she hosted Wednesday at her official residence in Ottawa.

The White House is keen to have Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pena Nieto announce a deal in principle at the Summit of the Americas in Lima next week.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says it "boggles the mind" that U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested imports of Canadians steel and aluminum are a threat to American national security but noted Canada is willing to work with its southern neighbour on its concerns around foreign dumping.