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OTTAWA \u2014 Mark Carney may be Canada\u2019s loudest booster at the World Cup, but some of his countrymen fear he may be hurting more than helping \u2014 because he always does when it comes to sports.<\/p>\n

In March 2025, the new prime minister joined the Edmonton Oilers for a pre-game skate. That night the Oilers fell to the Winnipeg Jets, followed by a wave of injuries on the team. Former Oiler and \u201cSpittin\u2019 Chiclets\u201d podcast host Ryan Whitney took to X<\/a>: \u201cThe Carney Curse is real for Edmonton. What the hell just happened. Guy is on the ice with the Oil this morning and now everyone is injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now some Canadians are worried that their prime minister has brought the \u201cCarney Curse<\/a>\u201d to the World Cup, blaming him for Canada\u2019s defeat against Switzerland on Wednesday. His country\u2019s only only goal coincided with a moment that Carney left his box seat at Vancouver\u2019s BC Place.<\/p>\n

For a brief, glorious moment last week, the Ottawa fishbowl wondered if the curse had been broken. Carney skipped Canada\u2019s World Cup opener against Bosnia-Herzegovina. But then, after days of anxious whispers over whether he\u2019d jinx the squad, the prime minister witnessed Canada thrash Qatar. If Canada had beaten or tied the Swiss, the team could\u2019ve played as many as two elimination games in Vancouver. With the loss, they fell to runner-up \u2014 and a knockout-round game in Los Angeles against South Africa on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s men\u2019s soccer team joins an ever-growing list of inadvertent \u201cvictims\u201d of prime-ministerial fanhood, including: the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost the World Series after Carney visited the team; the Canadian women\u2019s rugby team, for whom he traveled to the United Kingdom to cheer on at the World Cup last summer; and the Montreal Canadiens, whom he dubbed \u201cCanada\u2019s team\u201d during the Stanley Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2014 Mark Carney may be Canada\u2019s loudest booster at the World Cup, but some of his countrymen fear he may be hurting more than helping \u2014 because he always does when it comes to sports. In March 2025, the new prime minister joined the Edmonton Oilers for a pre-game skate. That night the Oilers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}