Even when Mark Carney was still in high school, his friends bugged him about whether he would become prime minister one day.

“That speaks to Mark. He's just a very humble guy,” said John Hecker, a longtime friend of Carney’s who went to Saint Francis Xavier high school with him in Edmonton, where they played ...

We all had aspirations of careers that appealed to us when we were kids. My oldest wanted to work in a grocery store and run ...