SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

Wednesday, 20 November 2024 - Updated at 0950 hrs EST

Canadian News

The Associated Press
U.S., Canadian embassies in Kyiv shut down

The Canadian Press
Trudeau says G20 leaders' statement on Ukraine is not strong enough

CBC News
Highways closed, thousands without power as 'bomb cyclone' hits B.C. coast

The Canadian Press
Hurricane-force winds hitting parts of the B.C. coast as 'bomb cyclone' develops

The Canadian Press
From atmospheric river to bomb cyclone, here are the ABCs of weather terminology - More

CTV News
What three storms raging in Canada have in common

CTV News
Runway closed for 'at least several days' after cargo jet incident at YVR - More

The Canadian Press
A ‘lot of ground’ remains between Canada Post, workers as strike talks progress

CBC News
Service Canada holding 85,000 passports as Canada Post strike continues

The Canadian Press
Canadians favour government intervention in Canada Post, port labour disputes: poll

CBC News
Authors miffed by publisher's offer to use their books for AI training

CBC News
Saskatoon lab helps with genetic analysis that points to COVID-19 origin

The Canadian Press
Human smuggling trial could hear from survivor of frigid cross-border walk

The Canadian Press
Canada has its eyes on Chinese investment in Mexico

CBC News
Canadian scientists urged to end government-funded research with China in sensitive areas

CBC News
Trump tariff man has made some reassuring comments. And some less so.

CBC News
Poilievre's office maintains tight control over what Conservative MPs say and do

CTV News
Emergency alert system to be tested in Atlantic Canada Wednesday - More

CBC News
Alleged 'potato cartel' accused of conspiring to raise price of frozen fries, tater tots across U.S.

The Canadian Press
Urban salmon return to Metro Vancouver streams to spawn

CBC News
Inflation rose to 2% in October - More

The Ottawa Citizen
Defence Watch

The Maple Leaf
Defence Team News

Directorate of History and Heritage
Significant Dates in Canadian Military History

Radio-Canada
Le Canada ferme son ambassade à Kiev

La Presse canadienne
Justin Trudeau trouve la déclaration du G20 sur l’Ukraine trop timide

Radio-Canada
Inquiétude « majeure, majeure, majeure » pour le saumon atlantique

La Presse canadienne
Libre-échange : Ottawa durcit le ton face au Mexique

La Presse canadienne
« On ne peut pas se permettre d’avoir un Roxham 2.0 », dit Legault

La Presse canadienne
Le Canada perd 35 % de ses immigrants francophones

Radio-Canada
Le chef présumé d’un réseau de passeurs de migrants a reçu un nouveau passeport canadien

Radio-Canada
Le nombre d’inscriptions d’étudiants étrangers en baisse dans les universités du 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

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
Stop playing defence against cyberattacks

Gary Mason | The Globe and Mail
Justin Trudeau needs a political lifeline. Could Donald Trump provide it?

Allan Lanthier | The Globe and Mail
Canada can learn from Trump and cut its bloated bureaucracy

Christian Noël | Radio-Canada
« Tout est surveillé » : la poigne de fer de Pierre Poilievre sur son caucus

Philippe Leblanc | Radio-Canada
La pandémie de COVID-19 a aggravé le problème mondial de myopie

International News

CNN News
Hundreds of thousands without power as bomb cyclone slams Washington state, British Columbia

ABC News
Conspiracy theories about "controlling" the weather have been circulating

CNN News
Jay Leno ‘all black and blue’ after falling down a hill

The Associated Press
SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket - More - More

CNN News
Trump’s turn to bask in Musk’s reflected glory

Reuters News Agency
Los Angeles passes 'sanctuary city' ordinance to protect migrants from mass deportation - More

ABC News
What will be the US military's role in Trump's mass deportation plan?

Los Angeles Times
Here’s a look at the number of women serving in U.S. military combat roles

The Guardian
House ethics committee to vote on publication of Matt Gaetz report - More

The Associated Press
Election offices report receiving mailed ballots misdirected from other states

The Guardian
Linda McMahon picked for education secretary

CBC News
Trump's cabinet choices so far - More - More

ABC News
Trump and Thune look to stop Biden's judicial nominees

The Associated Press
The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say

The Telegraph
Chinese ship under investigation over ‘sabotaged’ Baltic undersea cables

The Telegraph
Drones drop water bombs as Britain trains Ukrainians for changed war

The Telegraph
Britain blanketed in snow as temperatures plummet in Arctic blast

The Guardian
Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’

The Guardian
Latest Russian airstrikes on Ukraine threaten ‘catastrophic power failure’

The Guardian
US embassy in Kyiv closes over threat of ‘significant attack’ - More

The Washington Post
Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine - More

The Guardian
US and Europe fear escalation of Russian hybrid warfare

ABC News
Russia claims it shot down US-made ATACMS missiles

CBC News
Russia has updated its nuclear doctrine

The Guardian
What is hybrid warfare?

France 24
Lebanese army says soldier dies after Israeli forces target army vehicle in south

The New York Times
Flying Above the Bombs, a Lebanese Airline Becomes an Unlikely National Hero

The Telegraph
Shrapnel from Hezbollah missile attack rains down on Tel Aviv

The New York Times
Iran Suggests Pausing Its High Levels of Uranium Enrichment to Avoid Censure, IAEA Says

The Associated Press
US support for Ukraine and Israel is eating into weapons stockpiles, Indo-Pacific commander says

The Associated Press
Southeast Asian defense chiefs meet in Laos

The Guardian
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai defiant as he gives evidence in foreign collusion trial

The Guardian
US tariffs are coming, but some Chinese companies may already know how to avoid them

Agence France-Presse
N. Korea's latest weapon? Bombarding South with noise

The Guardian
Northern Mariana Islands governor backs $800m US military upgrade

Agence France-Presse
G20 Rio summit ends with Ukraine blame game as Lula pushes climate action

The Guardian
Brazil celebrates Black Consciousness Day as national holiday for first time

CNN News
Brazil police arrest five over alleged plot to assassinate President Lula

CNN News
Biden fades from view as he exits the world stage - More

The Associated Press
At least 28 suspected gang members killed in Port-au-Prince

The Telegraph
Charity workers pulled out of Haiti’s capital after police threaten to rape and kill them

The New York Times
On This Day: November 20 - BBC - This Day in Aviation

Agence France-Presse
SpaceX échoue à rattraper sa fusée Starship

Radio-Canada
Procès de Trump : le procureur new-yorkais propose de reporter la sentence à 2029

Agence France-Presse
L’avenir des enfants de 2050 « en péril », alerte l’UNICEF

Agence de presse Reuters
L’ambassade américaine à Kiev ferme en prévision de possibles attaques russes

Agence France-Presse
Première frappe de missiles ATACMS en Russie

Radio-Canada
L’Ukraine et les missiles de longue portée : trois questions pour mieux comprendre

Agence France-Presse
Cessez-le-feu au Liban : l’émissaire américain se montre optimiste

Agence France-Presse
Haïti : 28 membres de gangs tués par la police et par des habitants de Port-au-Prince

International Commentary

Tom Sharpe | The Telegraph
Scrapping Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers would be a costly mistake

Lewis Page | The Telegraph
Britain could be brought to its knees by Russian sabotage of undersea cables

Roland Oliphant | The Telegraph
Why Putin’s repeated nuclear threats could play into Trump’s hands

Owen Jones | The Guardian
An economic populism for the majority is the way forward

Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
Musk wants all of the US to embrace ‘extreme breeding’

Marina Hyde | The Guardian
Spare a tear for Don Jr – replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk

Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times
How Trump Can Earn a Place in History That He Did Not Expect

Sarah Zhang | The Atlantic
Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
Washington Is Shocked

Lydia Polgreen | The New York Times
I Never Panic. I’m Panicking Now.

Anne Flaherty | ABC News
How Trump could try to break the federal government

Matt Bai | The Washington Post
Sometimes, Donald Trump tells the truth