Evan Dyer

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How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada

How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada

"Nobody knows that Canada is charging our dairy farmers," U.S. President Donald Trump complained Friday in the Oval Office. "They have 270 per cent tariffs. Nobody knows that. Nobody knows it. They have up to 400 per cent. They have a couple of tariffs at 400 per cent. Nobody knows that. Nobody talks about that."

As Europe rearms, Canada has what it needs. That can be the basis of a post-NATO alliance

As Europe rearms, Canada has what it needs. That can be the basis of a post-NATO alliance

Canada is an energy and natural resources superpower in need of a new key ally. Faintly, but not slowly, the outlines of a new world order are coming into view — a world order of large power blocs and with far fewer rules than the one that is now slipping away. It remains unclear where Canada will fit into that...

The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public

The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public

Intelligence experts say young, economically vulnerable people would be likely target. Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of...

Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine

Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine

Speaking on borders, economics and security — the 2 leaders sound remarkably similar. It took a while for Canadian politicians to figure out that Donald Trump wasn't joking with his talk about annexing Canada. After Trump raised the idea at a dinner in Mar-A-Lago attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Nov. 29, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc said the...

Why Canada's spies worry about Trump's national intelligence nominee

Why Canada's spies worry about Trump's national intelligence nominee

Hillary Clinton once called her a "Russian asset" — and that was while Tulsi Gabbard was still a Democrat. Of all of Donald Trump's cabinet picks, none have caused so many reservations from within the Republican Party — and that's in a field that includes a health secretary nominee who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, a World Wrestling Entertainment executive...

Trump's threats reveal the trouble with Canada's pipelines running through the U.S.

Trump's threats reveal the trouble with Canada's pipelines running through the U.S.

"Continental energy security" was the watchword of both governments and industry for much of the past quarter century in North America: the idea that by linking the U.S. and Canada in a tight web of pipelines and refineries, both countries would protect themselves from threats and hostile trade actions that — it was assumed — would come from outside North...

Liberals say no changes coming for leadership race, despite risk of foreign interference

Liberals say no changes coming for leadership race, despite risk of foreign interference

You don't have to be a citizen, but the rules on exactly who can vote are fuzzy. The Liberal Party of Canada will be the first federal party to hold a leadership contest since the Hogue Commission on foreign interference revealed meddling by foreign governments in previous races, and there is every reason to expect governments that have sought to...

Trump's tariff threat could force Canada to face tough decisions on sovereignty

Trump's tariff threat could force Canada to face tough decisions on sovereignty

Trump's demands could squeeze Canada's sovereignty in many ways. It's hard to imagine President Emmanuel Macron of France joking about annexing Belgium. Donald Trump's posts and memes about turning Canada into the 51st state are almost without parallel among western democracies, said Carlo Dade, director of trade at the Canada West Foundation. "This isn't 'Lower Lukistan' and 'Upper Lukistan' calling...

Trump's tariff threat throws a spotlight on the whack-a-mole trade in drug precursors

Trump's tariff threat throws a spotlight on the whack-a-mole trade in drug precursors

President-elect Donald Trump this week cited drugs as a reason for his threat of crushing U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports."This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!" Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

India makes it clear it's not interested in a western alliance

India makes it clear it's not interested in a western alliance

A meeting Wednesday between India's Narendra Modi and China's Xi Jinping in Kazan, Russia was the first in five years, and will likely be viewed with dismay in Washington, Ottawa and other western capitals. While it probably doesn't mark the beginning of a new Beijing-New Delhi axis, it does seem to signal that India is not about to sign on...

Canada still hasn't recognized the likely winner of Venezuela's election — Venezuelans want to know why

Canada still hasn't recognized the likely winner of Venezuela's election — Venezuelans want to know why

Some Venezuelan-Canadians say the Trudeau government has failed to stand up for democracy in its response to the July 28 Venezuelan presidential election — an election tainted by widespread evidence of fraud and a government campaign of arrests, disappearances and torture of poll workers.

Liberal staffers pull support for party in Montreal byelection, citing government's stance on Gaza

Liberal staffers pull support for party in Montreal byelection, citing government's stance on Gaza

The Liberal Party of Canada is facing a revolt by ministerial staffers, mostly of Arab and Muslim origin, over the Trudeau government's handling of the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally. Fifty-two Arab and Muslim staffers working in the Liberal government signed a letter addressed to "the leader of the Liberal Party" that says they will not participate...

How Trump's promise of mass deportations could affect Canada's border

How Trump's promise of mass deportations could affect Canada's border

Relatively minor changes to US immigration policy in 2017 caused the Roxham Rd phenomenon. It was 2017 when Canadians first began to hear of an obscure border crossing near Hemmingford, Que., that was witnessing an unusually high number of illegal crossings on foot. Large numbers of Haitians, many of them families dragging heavy suitcases, were flying from homes in Florida...

Trump comeback could see familiar faces re-emerge — and they may spell trouble for Canada

Trump comeback could see familiar faces re-emerge — and they may spell trouble for Canada

Canadians are watching the U.S. election campaign with more than their usual mix of trepidation and fascination, as it careens from a near-miss assassination attempt on one candidate to an unprecedented step-aside from the other. Two-thirds of Canadians say a second Donald Trump term would be either '"bad news" or "terrible news" for Canada, according to a poll of 1,43...

As Israel and Hezbollah inch toward war, Canada braces for a repeat of the 2006 evacuation

As Israel and Hezbollah inch toward war, Canada braces for a repeat of the 2006 evacuation

Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly had a stark warning Tuesday for Canadian citizens in Lebanon."If the armed conflict intensifies, it could impact your ability to leave the country and our ability to provide you with consular services," she said. "Canada is not currently offering assisted departures or evacuations for Canadians in Lebanon, and these are not guaranteed.

Man charged with murder of Sikh activist arrested near site of planned Sikh gathering in Ontario

Man charged with murder of Sikh activist arrested near site of planned Sikh gathering in Ontario

The arrest in Brampton, Ont. on Nov. 3, 2023 of Amandeep Singh — one of four men charged in connection with a killing that Ottawa has linked directly with the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — happened just one day before a wedding in that city brought together a who's-who of New Delhi's Sikh enemies list, CBC News...

Mounties warn son of man acquitted in Air India bombing that his life may be in danger

Mounties warn son of man acquitted in Air India bombing that his life may be in danger

Warning comes as investigators probe possible Indian government links to Ripudaman Singh Malik's 2022 killing. The son of a man who was accused in the Air India bombing of 1985 has been officially warned by the RCMP that his life could be under threat, CBC News has learned. Hardeep Malik, a businessman in Surrey, B.C., is the son of Ripudaman...

Police make arrests in killing of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Police make arrests in killing of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators believe was tasked by the government of India with killing prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. last June, CBC News has learned. Sources close to the investigation also told CBC News that police are actively investigating possible links to three additional murders in Canada, including the...

Months after they were promised, Ottawa still hasn't imposed sanctions on violent Israeli settlers

Months after they were promised, Ottawa still hasn't imposed sanctions on violent Israeli settlers

The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. On Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced sanctions against Iran's minister of defence and its general staff.

Key Liberal MP rips his government's policy on Gaza war in private call with constituent

Key Liberal MP rips his government's policy on Gaza war in private call with constituent

Rob Oliphant, parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister, said he's considered quitting. A leaked recording of a phone call between a Liberal MP and a constituent suggests the depth of the divisions in the government caucus over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the war in Gaza, the genocide case against Israel and the decision to defund a UN...

Canada, allies condemn 'Victory Conference' as push to reoccupy Gaza gains momentum in Israel

Canada, allies condemn 'Victory Conference' as push to reoccupy Gaza gains momentum in Israel

On Tuesday, the Trudeau government appeared to criticize a jubilant "Victory Conference" in Jerusalem. Organizers of Sunday's conference — which was attended by about a third of the Israeli cabinet — presented plans for proposed Israeli settlements in Gaza. "Canada rejects any proposal that calls for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the establishment of additional settlements. Such...

Trudeau pushes back after Netanyahu again rejects two-state solution

Trudeau pushes back after Netanyahu again rejects two-state solution

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's position on Palestinian statehood after the Israeli prime minister claimed in a nationally-televised news conference that the so-called "two-state solution" is dead. "I was not surprised to hear Prime Minister Netanyahu share that. That has long been his position," Trudeau said Thursday when asked about the comments at a press conference in Iqaluit...

After days of confusion, Trudeau government says it will abide by ICJ on genocide case against Israel

After days of confusion, Trudeau government says it will abide by ICJ on genocide case against Israel

Canada will abide by all rulings arising from South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), officials at Global Affairs Canada have told CBC News. The clarification, issued Monday, comes after days of confusion following verbal and written statements issued Friday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in response to...

Trudeau says he's sensed a 'tonal shift' from India since U.S. reported alleged murder plot

Trudeau says he's sensed a 'tonal shift' from India since U.S. reported alleged murder plot

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he believes India's relations with Canada may have undergone "a tonal shift" in the days since the unsealing of a U.S. indictment alleging a conspiracy to murder a Sikh activist on American soil.The prime minister made the remarks in an end-of-year interview with the CBC's Rosemary Barton.

As U.S., U.K. and EU sanction violent Israeli settlers, Canada hangs back

As U.S., U.K. and EU sanction violent Israeli settlers, Canada hangs back

The Trudeau government still won't say if it's considering imposing sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the wake of travel bans announced by both the U.S. and the United Kingdom in recent days.The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said last week that he will recommend EU sanctions as well.