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Judy Trinh

Report alleges China linked to at least 18 overseas police stations in Canada

China has exponentially expanded its network of illegal overseas police stations, to “extend its tentacles” across a web of new community associations, according to a report by international human rights group Safeguard Defenders. In its latest report, the Spanish non-governmental organization (NGO) identifies nearly 1,250 overseas Chinese associations which they say are fronts for suspected police centres in 91 countries.

Democrat flips seat in special election for Florida district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort

Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to President Donald Trump's estate, Mar-a-Lago. The Republican president endorsed Gregory's rival, Jon Maples. In a social media post Monday, he urged voters to turn out, saying Maples was endorsed "by so many of my Palm Beach County friends."...

Ryan Wedding, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of being a drug kingpin, is arrested

Ryan Wedding, a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder allegedly behind one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations, was arrested, two law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation told NBC News on Friday.

Denmark says its sovereignty is not negotiable after Trump’s Greenland about-turn

Denmark’s prime minister insisted that her country can’t negotiate on its sovereignty on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he agreed on a “framework of a future deal” on Arctic security with the head of NATO. Trump said the outcome would be “all the military access we want” to Greenland. Trump on Wednesday abruptly scrapped the tariffs he had...

Mike Crawley

By suddenly declaring a deal on Greenland, Trump demolished his case for owning it

U.S. president's capitulation, along with contradictions in his Davos speech, revealed holes in his arguments. In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island. For weeks, Trump stuck firmly to a take-it-or-leave-it position on Greenland, insisting...

Steve Kopack

E.U. halts approval of U.S. trade deal after Trump's Greenland tariff threat

The European Union's legislative body on Wednesday halted work on the formal approval and implementation of the trade deal it reached last summer with President Donald Trump. "Given the continued and escalating threats, including tariff threats, against Greenland and Denmark, and their European allies, we have been left with no alternative but to suspend work" on the deal, said Bernd...

Trump threatens 200% tariff on French wine over Macron's refusal to join 'Board of Peace'

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 200 percent tariffs on French wines and Champagnes on Monday evening, a measure he said was intended to convince his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to join his "Board of Peace" aimed at resolving global conflicts.

Trump says he will tariff imports from 8 European countries for opposing U.S. control of Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10 per cent import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland, setting up a potentially dangerous test of U.S. partnerships in Europe. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado gifts her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has accepted Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize medal at a meeting in the White House. Mr Trump called the gift a "wonderful gesture of mutual respect" while Ms Machado said he "deserves it". Last week, the Norwegian Nobel Institute issued a statement clarifying that it was not possible for the prize to...

Iran demonstrations against regime continue as ayatollah, state media rail against 'terrorist agents'

Iran signalled on Friday that security forces would crack down on protesters, directly challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to support those peacefully demonstrating, as the death toll rose to at least 62. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump as having hands "stained with the blood of Iranians" as his supporters shouted "Death to America!" in footage aired by...

Two people shot by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, local police and FBI say

Two people are hospitalized after they were shot by federal agents, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. It is not immediately clear what their conditions are. The FBI Portland office said in a post on X that the shooting involved Customs and Border Protection agents and they are leading the investigation.

Matthew Lee And Farnoush Amiri, The Associated Press

US will exit dozens of international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.

Minneapolis mayor tells ICE to ‘get the f*** out’ after deadly shooting

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defence but that the city’s mayor described as “reckless” and unnecessary. The woman was shot during a traffic stop in a residential neighborhood...

Andrew Coyne

Donald Trump – and American democracy – is getting exponentially worse

I wish I could say I told you so. A point I have tried to make over the last year or so is that Donald Trump can only get worse: that however corrupt or incompetent or dictatorial or treasonous or insane he may appear at any given moment, it will inevitably come to be seen as a relative golden age...

Eric Tucker

Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts...

Jenn Jefferys

The youngest victims of genocide represent the last dying breath of our shared humanity

When the tiny lifeless body of Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish shore 10 years ago, the world stood still. We were horrified. That image inspired a column I wrote at the time lamenting the Harper government’s refusal to welcome and resettle more Syrian refugees. This was a time before genocides were livestreamed, and before desensitized doomscrolling gave way...

Suvolaxmi Dutta Choudhury, Tanya Dawar, Zoraver Cheema

Nepal’s Gen Z Protests Expose Deeper Frustrations, Regional Stakes

Nepal witnessed one of its most violent episodes in decades on September 8, when a youth-led uprising against the government’s ban on 26 social media platforms — including YouTube, Facebook, X, and Instagram — left 34 people dead and thousands injured. The demonstrations in Kathmandu and other cities forced four-time prime minister KP Sharma Oli to resign and triggered widespread...

Dylan Robertson

Carney condemns 'intolerable' Israeli strike on Qatar that killed Hamas officials

Canada condemned Israel's military strike on Qatar on Tuesday, saying the attack undermines the Gulf country's sovereignty and risks escalating conflict across the Middle East. An explosion killed Hamas officials Tuesday in the Qatari capital of Doha. Israel said it targeted senior Hamas leaders it holds responsible for the brutal October 2023 attack. Hamas said its main negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya...

Lin Chia-lung

“Chip in with Taiwan” for Global Peace and Prosperity

Elizabeth Renzetti

No one should be killed for trying to tell the world the truth

What happens when there are no messengers left to deliver the news we need to see and hear? This question should be the focus of our attention, as Palestinian journalists continue to be killed at a horrifying rate by Israeli forces in Gaza. Almost 200 are dead since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Committee to...

Julia Marich

In Ukraine, I still believe we can have peace on our terms, not Putin’s

Negotiations concluded last week at the White House involving Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several European leaders, who came to support the president of Ukraine. The Ukrainian delegation that travelled to Washington had critical objectives.

Andrew Coyne

The Ukraine emergency is far from over – because Donald Trump is the emergency

John Paul Tasker

Trump leaves Alaska without a Ukraine peace deal — and Putin gets a win

Putin got a meeting, dodged any commitment to a ceasefire and Trump said nothing about tariffs or sanctions. U.S. President Donald Trump set the bar low for the high-stakes meeting with his Russian counterpart in Alaska — and it became apparent why late Friday as things wrapped up with little more than a commitment to meet again. Trump had the...

Trump says no agreement on ending Russia's war in Ukraine as Putin says there was an 'understanding'

President Donald Trump said he and Vladimir Putin didn’t reach a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine after meeting on Friday — despite Putin saying they had come to “an understanding” — as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed while heaping praise on each other. In brief remarks as they shared a stage after meeting...

Karen Hui

Explainer: China’s Global Port Play and the Panama Canal

Over the past two decades, China has gained a foothold in ports across the world, expanding its control and influence over critical shipping routes and vital resource hubs. China’s power and influence extend not just to commercial matters; several of these ports could have dual-use functions — that is, both commercial and military — and have become a new point...

Don Newman

Donald Trump’s Siege of Washington

The decision by President Donald Trump to federalize law enforcement in Washington D.C. has serious implications far beyond his already worrying expansions and abuses of presidential power. Trump announced on August 11th that he was placing the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Force under the control of the United States Attorney-General and augmenting the existing force with agents from the Federal...

Steven Staples

Americans may launch Canadian weapons under Golden Dome

Prime Minister Mark Carney has removed any restrictions on Canada’s military to join President Trump’s Golden Dome, an unproven, half-trillion dollar program to try to shoot down nuclear-armed missiles launched against the United States by Russia or China. According to Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese, Defence Minister David McGuinty visited the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) headquarters in Colorado...

Michael Harris

Trump has the tools to treat his baseless conspiracy theories as if they were real, and that’s a problem

Bad faith from politicians has always been a feature of democracy. What politician hasn’t made a promise while running for office, only to break it when elected? Scandal is as much a part of everyday governance as talking points and taxes. From Brian Mulroney’s pasta payoff to Jean Chrétien’s ad sponsorship rip-off, leaders of all parties stray from the straight...

Rosie DiManno

Netanyahu’s plan to seize Gaza City will cause untold deaths and make Israel even more of a pariah

May their memories be a blessing. Because the hostages still held in Gaza have been condemned to die. By starvation, by Israeli bombardment, or by execution.

Marsha Lederman

What the Israeli flag debacle at Auschwitz really says about this moment

Andrew Coyne

Continuing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza can no longer be justified, morally or strategically

There is a tendency to the categorical in any discussion of Israel and Gaza. The obsessive focus of so many critics on Israel’s sins, real or alleged, as if it were the only such offender, or the worst, or even remotely comparable to the bestial dictatorships aligned against it, is met by an equal and opposite insistence that all such...

Two-in-three Canadians call humanitarian situation in Gaza a ‘moral outrage’; most say Israel is deliberately blocking aid

Canada’s move to recognize a Palestinian state has been welcomed by some and rejected by others – U.S. President Donald Trump being one of those occupying the latter view. The Canadian government’s decision to change its position on this issue, regardless of its motivations, are aligned with the shifting of opinion among the Canadian population. New data from the non-profit...

Trump to meet Putin soon, the Kremlin says as a White House deadline looms on Ukraine

A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump has been agreed, a Kremlin official said Thursday, the eve of a White House deadline for Moscow to show progress toward ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said a summit could possibly take place next week at a venue that has been...

Andrew Coyne

The final obstacle to Trump’s dictatorship may be the people he needs to borrow from

The president of the United States is commonly described as the most powerful man on earth. Nevertheless, his powers are ordinarily circumscribed in numerous ways, formal and informal. There is the Congress, of course, and the courts, and the rule of law they are sworn to uphold. But there are also the institutions under the presidency, which though they ultimately...

Robyn Urback

Netanyahu will win the war in Gaza, but he’s lost it in London, Ottawa and Washington

Joe Varner

Israel’s new war: seven fronts, one existential challenge

Rosie DiManno

Hamas wants two-state solution no more than it wants a one-way ticket to exile

Skeletal, dead-eyed Jews liberated from concentration camps. That’s what I thought of immediately, upon viewing the propaganda video Hamas released on the weekend of 24-year-old Evyatar David, abducted from the Nova musical festival on Oct. 7, 2023, on his 659th day of captivity.

Bruce Anderson

Trump's quarterly report card is coming up: will the money talk?

By most estimates, Donald Trump has collected at least $100 billion dollars from American consumers and businesses with his tariff policies this year. Every day he describes this as a “win” for America, pretending that it’s not a tax on Americans. To a lot of Americans, the effects of the tariffs have been hard to discern, and so the rhetoric...

Daniel Béland

Trump’s Spectacle Presidency and the Politics of Attention

Given the four-year preview of his first term, it should come as no surprise that even in the middle of summer, we can’t escape Donald Trump. Through ongoing executive orders, public announcements, press conferences, social media posts and shifting deadlines of tariffs, we are bombarded hourly by the former reality-show host’s presidential stylings. The difference in this term seems to...

Marsha Lederman

There is an abundance of shame – and rightly so – over the calamity in Gaza

We live in an age of abundance. Starvation should be obscene. Yet starvation is a deadly fact in too many parts of the world, including Gaza, where since October, 2023, Palestinians have endured the devastating effects of war. “The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable. And it’s rapidly deteriorating,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said this week, as he...

Rosie DiManno

Even those of us who love Israel cannot abide what it has done, and continues to inflict, upon Palestinians

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

Kamil Karamali

‘There’s no food’: Palestinian-Canadians watch starving family die in Gaza

Najah Ashour watches a video of her cousin, Enaia Shurrab, in Gaza City — sobbing over the lifeless body of her five-month-old son — who she says died from starvation. “I feel very sad,” Ashour whispers, sitting in her family’s apartment in Burlington, Ont. “She call[ed] me, ‘Please send me anything, can you buy milk for my baby?’ It broke...

Jaime Watt

Those who think the Epstein files will sink Trump are missing a key truth about the president and conspiracy theories

Donald Trump is reportedly in the Epstein files. To anyone paying attention, it’s less a revelation than a grim confirmation. And now — the big question: is this the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s political career?