Voyageur 98
Louise Arbour Indicted Milošević. Now She'll Open Parliament. Gold and Crude are Supporting a Trade Surplus (Finally).
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Louise Arbour Indicted Milošević and Now She'll Open Parliament.
Louise Arbour will be Canada's next Governor General. PM Mark Carney announced the pick on May 5, King Charles's approval has already been secured. She is expected to be sworn in during the month of June.
Arbour, 79, is the first GG to be appointed under King Charles's reign. She follows Mary Simon, the first Inuk Canadian to hold the role. Her résumé is unusual for the post. Chief prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, where she indicted Slobodan Milošević and got the first conviction under the Genocide Convention. Then she was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights which was followed by a seat on the Supreme Court of Canada. Most recently, she ran the review of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Carney said that she is a "guardian of our constitutional order" who will "represent the best of Canada to Canadians and to the world." Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet (no monarchist, to be sure), said he has "the utmost respect” for her.
Read more: CBC News / Globe and Mail
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Canada Booked Its First Trade Surplus in Six Months Thanks to Gold and Crude.
Canada was able to post a $1.8 billion merchandise trade surplus in March, the first since September 2025 and a welcome turn after February's $5.1 billion deficit.
Exports rose 8.5% to $72.8 billion. Imports fell 1.6% to $71 billion. Energy did most of the heavy lifting, rising 15.6% to their highest level since September 2022 on a crude oil price propped up by the Iran war (Voyageur 94). Gold and other precious metals also popped 37.7%, with much of that flow heading to the UK.
The US share of Canada's exports is now down to 66.7%, the lowest figure StatCan has on record. Exports to non-US countries hit a record high. Trade with the US still ran a $7.1 billion Canadian surplus, the largest since September.
The diversification away from Washington is showing up in the numbers, even if it's a small handful of commodities doing the work so far.
Read more: Statistics Canada / BNN Bloomberg