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Canadian News

Global News
Blair defends Canada’s defence spending plan as ‘credible’ amid criticism - More

CBC News
$250 cheques meant to 'recognize hardworking' Canadians: PM

Global News
Irwin Cotler says Iran assassination plot should be ‘wake-up call’ to world

CBC News
Heavy snowfall expected through weekend across Alberta

CTV News
Wind, rainfall warnings in effect in Nova Scotia ahead of storm

CBC Radio
How would you rebrand these boring climate terms?

The Canadian Press
Two men convicted in case of frozen migrant family in Manitoba

Global News
Canada Post strike hits one-week mark

The Canadian Press
Pat King found guilty of mischief for role in 'Freedom Convoy'

CTV News
Food prices continue to outpace inflation in Canada

CBC News
A hydrogen-heated home in Alberta lays ground for future low-carbon communities

The Canadian Press
Halifax International Security Forum begins 16th year amid war, global uncertainty

CBC News
Will the Canadian dollar slip below 70 cents US?

CTV News
Canada's new income tax brackets in 2025: What you need to know

The Associated Press
Ground beef tied to U.S. E. coli recall, illnesses wasn't sold in Canada

CTV News
Nearly 46,000 electric vehicles recalled in Canada over potential power loss

Radio-Canada
Northvolt a offert de redonner à Québec une partie de son bloc d’électricité

Radio-Canada
Grippe : des milliers d’aînés en RPA doivent se déplacer pour obtenir leur vaccin

Canadian Commentary

The Editorial Board | The Globe and Mail
Justin Trudeau’s sales-tax holiday from reality

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
Justin Trudeau’s amazingly unsubtle pre-election giveaway

Tim Sargent | The Globe and Mail
An economist on Ottawa’s GST holiday. Spoiler alert: Santa Claus is not real.

Aaron Wherry | CBC News
Justin Trudeau tries to find a cure for 'inflationitis'

Gary Mason | The Globe and Mail
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks he can fix America’s obesity crisis. Good luck.

Michael Barutciski | The Globe and Mail
Ambiguous messaging won’t be enough to protect Canada from the U.S.’s mass deportation plan

Craig Damian Smith and Abdulla Daoud | The Globe and Mail
There’s a better way to manage refugee surges

Fannie Olivier | Radio-Canada
Un cadeau à 6 G$, sans garantie que les électeurs diront « merci »

International News

The Washington Post
Snow suddenly falls in D.C.

The Associated Press
Unruly American Airlines passenger duct-taped after trying to open a plane's door mid-flight

The Guardian
Deadly bomb cyclone batters north-west US

BBC News
Jet engines: The superpowers of coatings make possible the impossible

CNN News
Bears find a buffet of battlefield rations at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

MoneyWatch
Musk and Ramaswamy say DOGE will target $500 billion in spending

MoneyWatch
Jeff Bezos denies he urged people to sell their Tesla, SpaceX stock because Trump would lose

CBS News
Proposed tariffs could raise U.S. grocery prices, analysis finds

MoneyWatch
Bitcoin hovers near $100,000

The Associated Press
Texas is taking a final vote on allowing Bible-infused lessons in public schools

Agence France-Presse
Mexican cartel leader who faked own death to "live a life of luxury" in U.S. is arrested in California

The Sydney Morning Herald
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

ABC News
Some hospitals seeing increase in RSV, 'walking pneumonia'

CBS News
Why the latest avian flu case has experts worried about a potential pandemic

CBS News
Life expectancy gap in U.S. widens to 20 years "truly alarming"

The Associated Press
More aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, UN says

ABC News
'Suspicious package' found outside US embassy in London - More

The Guardian
‘Obscene’: Anger after cost of King Charles’s coronation revealed

BBC News
Scotland: Police warn against road travel during Storm Bert

France 24
Hybrid warfare? China sabotaging Baltic Sea cables would be ‘super surprising’, experts say.

Global News
Son of Norway’s crown princess accused of second rape

The Guardian
Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’

Deutsche Welle
Orbán to invite Netanyahu to Budapest despite ICC arrest warrant

The Associated Press
NATO and Ukraine to hold emergency talks

BBC News
NATO says it won't be deterred from supporting Ukraine, as Russia deploys new weapon

The Guardian
Russian ballistic missile attack a ‘severe escalation’, says Zelenskyy

The Guardian
Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was warning to the west

France 24
Putin says Moscow 'has right' to hit states whose weapons Ukraine uses to strike Russia

ABC News
Four Italian soldiers injured in rocket attack on UNIFIL headquarters in Lebanon

BBC News
Biden says ICC war crimes arrest warrant 'outrageous'

CBS News
Israel stands by as aid convoys come under attack in Gaza

The Associated Press
Many in Gaza are eating just once a day

Agence France-Presse
Tehran to launch ‘new and advanced’ centrifuges in response to IAEA censure

The Guardian
UAE urges countries to honour fossil fuels vow amid COP29 impasse

BBC News
Sixth foreign tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos - More - More

BBC News
Satellite images show Russia giving N. Korea oil, breaking sanctions

The Associated Press
Russia supplied air defense missiles to North Korea in return for its troops

Kyodo News Agency
China admits plane entered Japanese airspace in August but unintentional

BBC News
Tuvalu: The disappearing island nation recreating itself in the metaverse

ABC News
Five remaining Bali Nine members could soon be transferred to Australia

ABC News
After WWII battle with HMAS Sydney, German seamen landed on an outback sheep station

Agence France-Presse
Haiti summons French ambassador after Macron's 'total morons' comment

CBS News
Surge of guns and ammunition flowing from U.S. to Latin America and Caribbean, fueling conflict

Agence France-Presse
Donald Trump remplace le controversé Matt Gaetz à la Justice par l'ex-procureure Pam Bondi - Plus

Radio-Canada
Les immigrants de Springfield craignent le pire avec le retour de Trump

Agence France-Presse
Neige, froid et vent : la France entre dans son premier épisode hivernal de la saison

Agence France-Presse
Le Parlement ukrainien déserté par crainte de frappes russes

Agence France-Presse
Ukraine : les États-Unis justifient l'envoi de mines antipersonnel pour stopper les avancées russes

Agence France-Presse
Invoquant un conflit mondialisé, Vladimir Poutine menace de frapper les pays occidentaux

Agence France-Presse
Ce que l'on sait sur le missile stratégique russe sans charge nucléaire tiré sur l'Ukraine

France 24
Sénégal : le parti au pouvoir remporte une victoire écrasante aux législatives

France 24
Joe Biden juge « scandaleux » les mandats d'arrêts de la CPI contre Netanyahu et Gallant

Agence France-Presse
L’Iran riposte aux critiques de l’AIEA avec de « nouvelles centrifugeuses avancées »

Radio-Canada
COP29 de Bakou : « En Afrique, les changements climatiques sont violents »

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
What I got wrong about the 2024 election

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
There are a number of ways to think about Trump’s appointments

Adam Serwer |The Atlantic
The Trump-Trumpist Divide

David Smith | The Guardian
Those who try to emulate Teflon Trump often come unstuck – just ask Gaetz - More

Andrew Roth | The Guardian
Putin’s Ukraine missile a warning to west before second age of Trump

Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
The west’s reckless escalation of the war in Ukraine will cause more suffering, for no strategic gain

Steve Rosenberg | BBC News
After days of escalation, what will Putin do next?

Peter Singer | The New York Times
What a Lame Duck President Could Do for Lame Turkeys

Jamelle Bouie | The New York Times
The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king