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Canadian News

CBC News
11 killed after car driven through Vancouver street festival - More

The Canadian Press
WW II postcard campaign reminds Canadian homeowners that fallen 'lived where you live'

CBC News
How Ontario's forgotten Farmerettes helped feed the nation during WW II

BBC News
A stunning reversal of fortunes in Canada's historic election

CBC News
Not all claims in the federal election campaign were true

CBC News
Hundreds of Americans accept Nanaimo man's social media invite to visit Canada

CBC News
Trump tariffs could throw off Ford's path to balanced Ontario budget

France 24
Le bilan de l'attaque à la voiture-bélier à Vancouver passe à 11 morts - Plus

France 24
Mark Carney favori des élections fédérales au Canada, impactées par les menaces de Trump

Canadian Commentary

Paul Wells | The Walrus
What the Election Won’t Fix

Erica Ifill | The Guardian
Mark Carney is riding an anti-Trump wave. Will that be enough to win Canada’s election?

International News

NBC News
Man arrested in theft of DHS chief Kristi Noem's purse is in the U.S. illegally

CBS News
Trump's first 100 days seen as bringing big changes

CNN News
Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades

The Huffington Post
Trump Claims Steep Tariffs Could Lead to Taxes Being ‘Completely Eliminated’

The Hill
How Trump’s tariffs are snarling supply chains

BBC News
What should Democrats do now? Everyone has a different answer.

The Guardian
Trump golf club to host speaker who claims bleach can cure cancer and Covid

CBS News
British Airways flight makes emergency landing in Boston after suspected bird strike

BBC News
RMS Titanic survivor's letter sold for £300,000 at auction - More

BBC News
Navy tracks Russian warships through UK waters

Agence France-Presse
Napoleon's sword from 1802 to be sold at auction in Paris

BBC News
Eighty years on, survivors and families remember horrors of Bergen-Belsen

CNN News
Russian military turns to motorbikes to evade Ukrainian drones on frontlines

BBC News
Huge blast at key Iranian port kills 28 and injures 800

Deutsche Welle
India, Pakistan swap fire for third day after Kashmir attack

The Guardian
US treasury secretary says ‘there is a path’ with China over tariff negotiations

The Associated Press
Brazil’s former president arrested and ordered to begin prison sentence

The Associated Press
Today in History: 30 April

This Day in Aviation
30 April

International Commentary

Simon Tisdall | The Guardian
Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned

Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: As a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool

S.V. Date | The Huffington Post
However Scared You Are, You Are Not Scared Enough

David Smith | The Guardian
Chaos unleashed by Musk’s DOGE is starting to wane – what does that mean?

Bill Nicholov | The Hill
Here’s what USAID really did — it wasn’t bunnies and rainbows

Jonathan Turley | The Hill
‘Here we are again’ — federal district courts piling on injunctions to stop Trump

Stacy Torres | The Guardian
I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more

Emma Beddington | The Guardian
The hero dogs who save lives

John Harris |The Guardian
We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost.

Sophian AUBIN | France 24
Tensions entre l’Inde et le Pakistan : faut-il craindre une escalade nucléaire ?

Book Reviews

Martin Lukacs | The Walrus
The Book That Built Pierre Poilievre

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