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Wednesday, 24 April 2024 - Updated at 1845 hrs EDT

Canadian News

CBC News
Alberta enacts fire restriction as wildfire conditions grow extreme

CBC News
Table set for Honda's massive bet on Canada's electric vehicle sector

CBC News
Quebec man charged with conspiracy linked to illegal sale of Chinese drones to Libya

Toronto Star
Danielle Smith stands by pick of ‘contrarian’ chair to lead Alberta’s COVID-19 data review

CBC News
Nearly 1/3 of stolen vehicles may now have been title ‘washed’ and resold

City News
Ontario to increase speed limits on some highways, including Hwy. 401 and Hwy. 403

Toronto Star
Sixth anniversary of Yone Street van attack - More

Toronto Star
Meta’s AI is on your Facebook and Instagram now. Here’s how it works, and how to turn it off.

CBC News
U.K. tabloids abuzz with Canadian's 'Loch Ness monster' photo

The Ottawa Citizen
Defence Watch

The Maple Leaf
Defence Team News

Directorate of History and Heritage
Significant Dates in Canadian Military History

Agence de presse Reuters
Reprise des négociations sur un traité contre la pollution plastique

La Presse canadienne
Le traité sur le plastique doit inclure un plafond sur la production, dit Guilbeault

Agence QMI
Les conservateurs veulent sauver les pailles de plastiques

Radio-Canada
Demande d’enquête publique sur toute l’affaire Umar Zameer

Radio-Canada
Les Saskatchewanais recevront la Remise canadienne sur le carbone, selon Justin Trudeau

Radio-Canada
Il a tenté d’importer 25,5 M$ de meth au Canada

Radio-Canada
1 M$ en récompenses pour les criminels les plus recherchés au Canada

Radio-Canada
Plus de trois ans d’attente pour les nouvelles demandes d’asile

Radio-Canada
Québec demande au fédéral de protéger les travailleurs étrangers recrutés par des agences

TVA Nouvelles
Sondage Léger : oui aux pouvoirs en immigration, non au référendum

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Radio-Canada
Un élève sur 10 est absent des bancs d’école au Québec

La Feuille d’érable
Nouvelles de l’Équipe de la Défense

Direction - Histoire et patrimoine
Dates significatives dans l’histoire militaire canadienne

Canadian Commentary

John Ivison | National Post
Trudeau’s budget comeback tour isn’t proving popular enough to save his career

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
The Liberals weight-loss goal shows they are running out of options

John Ibbitson | The Globe and Mail
The Liberals’ immigration policies have accomplished the opposite of what was intended

Eric Posner | The Globe and Mail
Will Trump’s first trial change the course of the election?

Heather Mallick | Toronto Star
What if you were Umar Zameer and had parked in the underground City Hall garage that fateful night?

Vivian Bercovici | National Post
Trudeau's response to Ottawa hate rally too little, too late

Tristin Hopper | National Post
Amira Elghawhaby's wild claim that anti-Israel extremism is a "few individual protesters"

International News

CNN News
What to expect from the historic cicada emergence

Reuters News Agency
Trump 2.0: How U.S. allies are working to iron out the bugs

The Associated Press
What to listen for during Supreme Court arguments on Donald Trump and presidential immunity

Reuters News Agency
Biden to sign Ukraine aid package

The New York Times
The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg

The New York Times
Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted

Reuters News Agency
US TikTok bill sets up fight over free speech protections

Reuters News Agency
TikTok CEO expects to defeat US ban

Politico
During raucous Columbia visit, Johnson demands Biden send in National Guard - More

Reuters News Agency
Who is Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's lawyer in his hush money trial? - More

Intelligencer
Trump Is Furious He Got Caught Sleeping in Court - More

Intelligencer
Melania Trump Honors ‘All Mothers’ by Selling Ugly $245 Necklace - Photo

The Associated Press
Former leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party faces sex offense charges dating to 1985

The Associated Press
Household Cavalry horses run loose in central London, injuring four people and causing havoc

Politico
Britain sends a message to Trump: NATO is worth investing in

Reuters News Agency
German far-right politician digs in after aide accused of spying for China

Reuters News Agency
Italy to sign deal to rebuild Ukraine's Odesa and its cathedral

Reuters News Agency
Portugal celebrates democracy anniversary amid far-right surge

Reuters News Agency
North Macedonia votes for president in test before parliamentary poll

Reuters News Agency
The US quietly shipped long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine

The Globe and Mail
As war depletes its ranks, Ukraine takes a new tack to bolster its military recruits

Reuters News Agency
Ukrainian drones struck two Rosneft oil depots in attack, Kyiv source says

CNN News
Ukraine pressures military-aged men abroad by suspending their consular services

Reuters News Agency
Russian attack injures six people in Ukraine's Kharkiv

The New York Times
‘Kharkiv Is Unbreakable’: A Battered City Carries On

Reuters News Agency
Russia will expand Ukraine 'buffer zone' if Kyiv gets longer range missiles, says Kremlin

Reuters News Agency
Russia detains Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov for corruption

Reuters News Agency
Russian priest presiding over Navalny's memorial suspended from duties

Reuters News Agency
Some Palestinians forced to flee homes as Israel pounds northern Gaza

CNN News
Hamas releases video of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin in proof he survived Oct. 7 injuries

Reuters News Agency
Israel says it is poised to move on Rafah

Reuters News Agency
Iran, Pakistan urge U.N Security Council to take action against Israel

The Economist
How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes

CNN News
New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan

CNN News
New Delhi chokes as trash mountain fire spreads hazardous fumes

Reuters News Agency
Prabowo vows to fight for all Indonesians, urges unity among political elites

CNN News
Mount Ruang in Indonesia is erupting. Here’s what that could mean for weather and climate.

CNN News
US sends land-attack missile system to Philippines for exercises

Reuters News Agency
Taiwan happy with US aid package, China objects to arms sales

Reuters News Agency
Better US-China ties but still deep disagreements as Blinken starts visit

Reuters News Agency
Australian counter terrorism force arrests seven teenagers after Sydney bishop stabbing

Reuters News Agency
Explainer: What is happening with Venezuela's election?

The New York Times
On This Day: April 24 - BBC - This Day in Aviation

Agence de presse Reuters
Le Congrès adopte un plan d'aide de 61 milliards de dollars à l'Ukraine

Agence de presse Reuters
Le Sénat adopte le projet de loi visant à obliger ByteDance à céder TikTok

Agence de presse Reuters
Tesla va lancer de nouveaux modèles plus rapidement qu'attendu

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Agence QMI
Dauphin tué par balles : les autorités américaines offrent 20 000 $ US pour identifier le responsable

p>Agence de presse Reuters
Cinq migrants meurent en tentant de traverser la Manche

Agence de presse Reuters
Tesla veut supprimer 400 emplois dans sa méga-usine près de Berlin

Agence de presse Reuters
Le Parlement européen vote l'accord sur les freins aux importations agricoles d'Ukraine

Agence de presse Reuters
Russie : Le ministre adjoint de la Défense arrêté pour des accusations de corruption - Plus

Agence de presse Reuters
Le nord de la bande de Gaza soumis à d'intenses bombardements

Agence France-Presse
L'Iran a réduit sa présence militaire en Syrie

International Commentary

Leader | The Economist
Finally, America’s Congress does right by Ukraine

Nicholas Kristof | The New York Times
Biden’s Deep Miscalculation on Israel and Gaza: Where has our moral president gone?

Ed Kilgore | Intelligencer
2024 Voter Turnout May Be High Despite Apathy for Biden and Trump

Ed Kilgore | Intelligencer
Trump vs. Biden Polls: Kennedy Now Threatens Both Candidates

Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann | The New York Times
The Supreme Court Has Already Botched the Trump Immunity Case

Ankush Khardori | Politco
How to Know If the Supreme Court Is in the Tank for Trump

Robert Kagan | The Washington Post
We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it?

Russell Berman | The Atlantic
A Democrat’s Case for Saving Mike Johnson

Lexington | The Economist
The campus is coming for Joe Biden

Dan Halpern | 1843 Magazine
Arab-Americans are switching to Trump

Catherine Rampell | The Washington Post
You don’t want immigrants? Then tell grandma she can never retire.

George F. Will | The Washington Post
So, 112 ignoble, infantile Republicans voted to endanger civilization

Michelle Cottle | The New York Times
The Humbling of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Paul Butler | The Washington Post
Columbia’s president is committed to one principle: Keeping her job

Leader | The Economist
Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals

Wings of Change | The Economist
Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive?

Books

Deborah Dundas | Toronto Star
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau gets candid about her Justin Trudeau split

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