The frontrunners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland.

Canada’s governing Liberal Party will announce the country’s new prime minister March 9 after a leadership vote that follows the resignation of Justin Trudeau this week.

Mark Carney, the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694 and the former head of Canada’s central bank, says he is entering the race to be Canada’s next prime minister fo

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to resign after calls increased for his ouster over his handling of economic policies.

The front runners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland, whose abrupt resignation last month forced Trudeau's exit.

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney will announce on Thursday he is running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal Party, CBC News said on Wednesday.

The former governor of the Canadian and British central banks announced he was running to become head of the Liberal Party and prime minister.

Freeland becomes one of the highest-profile candidates in the leadership contest, joining contenders including former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney.

This week saw former central banker Mark Carney officially announce his candidacy for leader of the Liberal Party and thus the prime minister’s office. In a speech in Edmonton defined by long pauses, he promised a “plan,” not a “slogan,” taking care to pronounce each word so that they rhymed.

Carney coronation? We Liberals love a coronation. Mark Carney is likely to be the next prime minister of Canada. He’s also likely to lose the next election, badly. In 1958, Lester B. Pearson lost, badly.