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Canadian News

CBC News
The Canadian Army is investigating members allegedly involved in 'abhorrent' Facebook group

CBC News
700 people stranded in northern Sask. community after wildfire blocks road

CBC News
Canadians in ICE detention centres left in legal limbo as families try to secure release

Canadian Commentary

Colby Cosh | National Post
Mark Carney's surrender to Trump was inevitable

Todd Hirsch | The Globe and Mail
To up defence spending, Canada must cut deeper, tax harder and borrow more – all at once

John Paul Tasker | CBC News
Poilievre has to contend with Alberta separatists as he vies for a Commons seat

Tony Keller | The Globe and Mail
Trump has yet to kill the golden goose that is the U.S. economy. But he’s working on it

Tristin Hopper | National Post
EU exempting heavy industry from carbon tax as Canada doubles down

David Booth | Driving
Can Trump really deport Elon Musk?

International News

BBC News
A dark day for our country’: Democrats furious over Trump bill’s passage

The Guardian
Trump kicks off 4 July celebrating tax-and-spending bill and promising UFC fight at White House

CNN News
Trump signs his agenda bill, with a flyover and fireworks to mark the occasion

Axios
What to know about Fourth of July anti-Trump protests

MSNBC News
Trump reportedly didn’t realize his bill strips Medicaid

Axios
Trump pleads ignorance after using antisemitic slur

Global News
Biden laments changes in U.S. since he left office

MSNBC News
Jewish leaders call out President Trump’s use of antisemitic slur

NBC News
Florida has so far received no FEMA money for 'Alligator Alcatraz'

MSNBC News
Report shows Trump milks presidency for badly needed bailout - More

Reuters News Agency
Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite lost in space

The Telegraph
RAF nuclear jet base protected by 5ft fence

The Associated Press
Trump says US has given Ukraine too many weapons

BBC News
Kyiv hit by barrage of drone strikes as Putin rejects Trump's truce bid - More

BBC News
Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening

BBC News
Mali coup leader granted five-year term in power

BBC News
Hamas says it is consulting other Palestinian groups on Gaza ceasefire plan

NBC News
China's first homemade aircraft carrier sails into Hong Kong in a show of military prowess

BBC News
American teen pilot detained on small island in Antarctica

The Associated Press
U.S. military's attempt to retain strategic land for training runs into Native Hawaiian opposition

Agence France-Presse
Ukraine : un appel téléphonique "riche" entre Trump et Zelensky, selon Kiev

International Commentary

Heather Cox Richardson | Substack
America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal

Chris Hayes | MSNBC News
‘Lipstick on a pig’: Trump, Republicans try to hide ‘terrible’ impact of megabill

Susan B. Glasser | The New York Times
Trump’s Megabill and the New Art of G.O.P. Capitulation

Russell Berman | The Atlantic
No One Loves the Bill (Almost) Every Republican Voted For

Charlie Hunt | The Conversation
One ‘big, beautiful’ reason why Republicans in Congress just can’t quit Donald Trump

Chris Stein | The Guardianr> Trump’s big bill achieved what conservatives have been trying to do for decades

Rogé Karma | The Atlantic
The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Adam Gurri | MSNBC News
America declared independence from the crown 249 years ago

Robert Reich | Substack
What Patriotism Requires

George Monbiot | The Guardian
Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but this repressive government is

Max Boot | The Washington Post
Why hasn’t Trump stopped Russia? He doesn’t understand the stakes.

Sébastian SEIBT et Louise NORDSTROM | France 24
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