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Canadian News

CBC News
A new app is helping to rescue veterans' stories from fading memories - More

The Canadian Press
Some legion branches struggle to keep doors open

The Canadian Press
Dozens of art works by Canadian war artist at Calgary exhibit - More

CBC News
Gun violence is on the rise in Canada

Global News
As Trump promises deportations, Ottawa says there’s a ‘plan’ for the border

Global News
‘Moving to Canada’ searches spike after U.S. election

The Canadian Press
How to care for your mental health if you're struggling with U.S. election result

Global News
Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda a threat to Canada-U.S. trade, say Alberta business leaders

CBC News
Via Rail's performance has gone from bad to worse

CBC News
Panama: Gatineau couple survives violent attack during South American road trip

CBC News
Guilbeault wants emerging economies to contribute to a new climate fund

The Canadian Press
Nunavik: Inuk man killed by police in Quebec's Far North

Radio-Canada
Réélection de Donald Trump : Doug Ford « optimiste »

Radio-Canada
Trump menace le financement canadien des usines de batteries

TVA Nouvelles
Voici ce qui nous attend avec le retour de Donald Trump

La Presse canadienne
Jour 3 : aucune négociation en vue dans le lock-out des ports en Colombie-Britannique

Radio-Canada
Affrontements entre sikhs et hindous : « la peur, la colère et les tensions» augmentent

Radio-Canada
Plus de transparence demandée après la fusillade au Nunavik

Canadian Commentary

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
How Canada can survive Donald Trump, again

Andrew Coyne | The Globe and Mail
Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world

Lawrence Martin | The Globe and Mail
Trump’s amazing triumph: Americans make their sinner a historic winner

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
Same Trump. Different Canada. Different world.

Mark Rendell nd Jason Kirby | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s economy braces for an ‘unpredictable’ future with Trump back in White House

Rob Carrick | The Globe and Mail
Look out for these personal finance pain points in the U.S. election aftermath

Debra Thompson | The Globe and Mail
To understand Trump’s win, we need to drill into effects of gender, age and race

Claude Lavoie | The Globe and Mail
U.S. election’s greatest fallout: a new immigration challenge for Canada

The Globe and Mail
Start reading policy papers from U.S. right-wing think tanks, Canada

Carlo Dade | Kelly Cryderman | The Globe and Mail
Danielle Smith is the most unapologetic conservative leader in Canada

Fannie Olivier | Radio-Canada
Retour de Trump : Trudeau doit « boucler sa ceinture »

Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski | Radio-Canada
Comment Donald Trump a réussi à remporter l’élection présidentielle

Gérald Fillion | Radio-Canada
Donald Trump de retour avec un programme perturbateur

Raphaël Bouvier-Auclair | Radio-Canada
Donald Trump et l’Europe, prise 2

International News

CBS News
Ventura County Mountain Fire explodes to 14,000 acres - More

CBs News
Plea deals revived for Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, two others

The Associated Press
Biden guarantees a peaceful transfer of power

The Guardian
Trump prepares to choose top team as Harris tells supporters ‘do not despair’

NBC News
Susie Wiles seen as the frontrunner to be White House chief of staff - More

NBC News
Trump says there's 'no price tag' for his mass deportation plan

CBS News
Trump administration could be a boon for business for private prison companies in the U.S.

Politico
Trump promised to get revenge. Here are his targets.

CBS News
What is to be Tim Walz’s future?

The Guardian
Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10

CNN News
What Trump’s win means for Tesla

NBC News
Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate a quarter point - More

Politico
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says Trump can't fire him; `Not permitted under the law'

The Guardian
More tariffs, less red tape: What Trump will mean for key global industries

Reuters News Agency
How Donald Trump’s presidential win may impact his legal cases

NBC News
Judge blasts Rudy Giuliani's 'farcical' excuse for failing to turn over assets in defamation case

The Guardian
US diplomats brace as Trump plans foreign policy shake-up in wider purge of government

CBS News
Biden speaks to nation

CBS News
Biden still does not plan to pardon his son Hunter, White House says

NBC News
Some U.S. allies are reckoning with their scathing past comments about Trump

NBC News
Israel celebrates, Ukraine frets: What Trump’s win means for U.S. allies at war

The Guardian
‘America’s gone mad’: Disbelief in Ayrshire near Trump’s golf course - More

RFE/RFL News
Britain Slaps Massive Sanctions Package On Russia

The Guardian
Trump trade war ‘could push eurozone into full-blown recession’

The Guardian
European leaders struggle for show of unity in wake of Trump victory - More

The Guardian
Olaf Scholz faces calls for confidence vote after German coalition collapses - More

VOA News
NATO’s Mark Rutte warns of wider threat from Russia-North Korea cooperation

The Guardian
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme - More

The Guardian
False claims and hoaxes surge as Spain’s floods recede

VOA News
Trump's victory brings uncertainty, but also hope in Ukraine

RFE/RFL News
Zelenskiy Warns EU Leaders That Capitulation To Putin Is 'Suicidal'

RFE/RFL News
Ukraine's Forces Are Dangerously Stretched

RFE/RFL News
Dmitry Peskov Hints At Possible Putin-Trump Communication Before U.S. Inauguration

Reuters News Agency
Equatorial Guinea orders crackdown on sex in government offices

VOA News
Israelis, Palestinians welcome election of Trump

VOA News
Israel’s drawn-out conflict raises pressure – and questions – among Israeli reservists

The Guardian
2 million at risk of starvation in Myanmar state amid ‘total economic collapse’

VOA News
Taiwan braces for uncertainty following Trump’s victory

Reuters News Agency
China's exports soar past forecast as factories front-run Trump tariff threat

NBC News
Mount Fuji finally gets its first snow, a month later than last year

The Guardian
Death threats, bodyguards and a FARC commander called Smurf: Living dangerously in Colombia

The Guardian
How the climate crisis threatens the Panama Canal – and the country’s future

Reuters News Agency
Cuba's power grid collapses as Hurricane Rafael lashes the island - More

WGNO News
Hurricane Rafael upgraded to Category 3 with large shift in projected path

France 24
L'élection de Donald Trump, une mauvaise nouvelle pour le climat

Agence France-Presse
Biden va s'adresser aux Américains pour la transition avec Trump

Agence de presse Reuters
En plein désarroi, des électeurs démocrates inquiets pour leur avenir

Agence de presse Reuters
L'électorat afro-américain atterré par le triomphe de Trump

Agence France-Presse
Accord de peine négociée pour le « cerveau » du 11 septembre : il devrait éviter la peine capitale

Agence France-Presse
L'année 2024 s'annonce comme la première avec plus d'1,5° C de réchauffement climatique

Agence de presse Reuters
Macron dit ne pas vouloir « déléguer pour l'éternité notre sécurité aux Américains »

Agence France-Presse
Allemagne : le gouvernement de coalition d'Olaf Scholz éclate

Agence France-Presse
La Corée du Sud n'exclut pas l'envoi direct d'armes vers l'Ukraine

Agence France-Presse
Le Hezbollah se dit prêt à tenir dans la durée et lance 120 projectiles sur Israël

Agence France-Presse
Israël Katz, un « bulldozer » à la Défense aligné avec Benjamin Netanyahu

Agence de presse Reuters
La victoire de Trump inquiète avant la COP29 sur le climat

Agence de presse Reuters
L'élection de Trump galvanise la droite brésilienne, qui rêve d'un retour de Bolsonaro

International Commentary

Hayes Brown | MSNBC News
The most disheartening part of Trump's sweeping victory

Emma Brockes | The Guardian
Trump’s win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for.

Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

Paul Taylor | The Guardian
Why Donald Trump’s return is a disaster for Europe

Editorial | The Guardian
Ukraine after Trump’s victory: Bracing for what lies ahead

George Monbiot | The Guardian
Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Trump and Orbán “have big plans for the future”

Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian
Here’s how the American press can survive four years of Trump

Jessica Glenza | The Guardian
The first post-COVID presidential election elevates the antivax movement

Alon Pinkas | The Guardian
While the world’s eyes were elsewhere, Netanyahu fired his defence minister