Sep 26 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — A warning to any Canadian thin-skinned about seeing the nation being portrayed in a negative light: There is no safe haven, right now, on international news sites. Not after the veteran of a Nazi unit being celebrated in the House of Commons snowballed into a major global news story.
Aug 31 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — MP Michael Chong is about to appear in a unique locale for an Opposition politician: a hearing in the United States Congress. American lawmakers studying foreign interference by China have taken an interest in Chong’s case and invited him to testify. He has agreed to appear before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Sept. 12. […]
Jul 27 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — A senior U.S. military figure has agreed to have tough conversations with Canada about defence spending when he takes over a binational military body. Lt.-Gen. Gregory Guillot was speaking during a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday to confirm his nomination as the next head of North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). His comments came after a […]
Jul 21 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — In the storied history of a family sometimes likened to American royalty, Thursday marked an unusual plot twist. The Kennedy family, stalwart Democrats, has produced one former president, three major presidential candidates, senators and congressmen — but never quite something like this. A Kennedy running for president was berated by fellow Democrats while starring as […]
Jul 3 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — A struggle is unfolding in Washington over who will make the electric vehicles that the Biden administration sees as a key part of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. And some Canadians are taking sides in the debate with long-term implications. The specific flashpoint is the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, and the large tax credits […]
Jun 9 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — Being a Canadian anywhere on the eastern seaboard of the United States this week runs a risk of being inundated with smoke jokes. A doctor quipped at a CBC News reporter during a medical checkup Thursday in Washington: “Tell your country to take its smoke back.” With that gag out of his system, the doctor […]
Jun 8 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — The Canadian government has confirmed its participation in a first-of-its kind international meeting on unidentified flying objects hosted at United States military headquarters. The gathering at the Pentagon late last month comes amid a burst of activity in Washington and eye-popping news reports related to so-called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). It featured a U.S.-led briefing […]
Apr 19 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — A massive leak of U.S. national security documents has now spilled over into Canada. The Washington Post says it has seen a Pentagon document criticizing Canada’s military readiness among materials allegedly posted online by a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman arrested last week. The purported document makes two broad claims. First, it says that Prime Minister […]
Apr 5 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — For most people, being implicated in a crime would represent the scandal of a lifetime. Especially if it’s connected to the unprecedented arrest of a former U.S. president. For Donald Trump, this wasn’t even the scandal of the weekend. The trail leading to Tuesday’s history-making indictment began on the gob-smackingly eventful second weekend of October […]
Mar 28 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — Here’s an attention-grabbing charge: the idea that Canada might be assisting an invasion of the United States by the other country on the continent. Even more surprising? The comment came from a member of the United States Congress during a congressional hearing in Washington. Less surprising? That member was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversy-courting Republican […]
Mar 22 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — When American presidents visit Canada, there’s a recurring pattern to their oratory. They deliver spoonfuls of sugar — sweet, syrupy odes to one of the happier nation-to-nation relationships in a troubled world. Then comes the dose of medicine — a shot of tough love along with the sucrose in the form of a request for […]
Mar 18 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — The United States ran a secret probe into national-security threats posed by Chinese overseas operations that drew alarming conclusions about Canada, alleges a new book co-authored by a former RCMP officer. The book says the project, code-named Operation Dragon Lord, led to an unnerving takeaway: that Beijing’s activities in Canada represented a security threat to […]
Feb 24 2023 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — The premier of Quebec wants a new migration deal with the U.S. He wants it urgently. He wants the prime minister of Canada to negotiate it. The prime minister? He wants it too. It’s become a pressing political priority and major federal-provincial irritant, with Canada eager to slow the flow of migrants entering on foot […]
Dec 16 2022 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — A Uyghur activist raised a concern during an event in Washington, D.C., this month. It came during a discussion about a new U.S. law targeting modern slave labour. At that think-tank gathering, people were evaluating how the law has worked and how it hasn’t since it took effect six months ago. During the discussion, Omer […]
Nov 25 2022 — Alexander Panetta — CBC — The Canadian government has an unequivocal position on what it intends to say regarding the just-announced political comeback of Donald Trump: nothing. Two years after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed the then-U.S. president for inciting a riot in an effort to cling to power, the Canadian government intends to keep mum. Conversations with Canadian officials […]