Instead, the highly anticipated meeting Tuesday between President Donald Trump and his new Canadian counterpart Mark Carney fell somewhere in the middle: neither openly hostile nor outwardly chummy, evincing very little neighborliness, at least the type used on neighbors one likes.

During a press conference, The Toronto Star’s Tonda MacCharles noted she had been watching Carney’s facial expressions during the sit-down and was curious as to what had been going through his mind — particularly as Trump spoke about “erasing the artificial border” between America and Canada and mocked Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high-stakes showdown.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said emphatically Tuesday that Canada is "not for sale" and "won't be for sale, ever" in an Oval Office meeting with President Trump, moments after Mr. Trump called the border between the U.S. and Canada "artificial" and romanticized the idea of Canada joining the U.S.

According to a body language expert, Mark Carney made a series of 'hidden' gestures as Donald Trump spoke during the press conference today

In a mostly cordial meeting between Mark Carney and Donald Trump, there were still moments when the Canadian PM had to call out some nonsense.

Canada’s new PM Mark Carney didn’t flatter Trump in his first face-to-face encounter and held his ground – but crucially, he also had things the president wanted, writes Mary Dejevsky. Unless the UK can find the same,

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U.S. President Donald Trump and new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney met with President Donald Trump at the White House at a tense time for US-Canadian relations.