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Canadian News

CBC News
Parts shortages, snarled supply chains are sidelining Canadian vehicles and troops in Latvia

CBC News
MFA Anita Anand says she has 'utmost confidence' in ICC judge sanctioned by U.S.

CBC News
Carney says he spoke to Trump on Monday but doesn't expect tariffs to be lifted soon

CBC News
Carney meets with cabinet amid an unresolved trade war and looming budget

Reuters News Agency
Families of airplane crash victims get chance to object to Boeing non-prosecution deal

CBC News
Alberta premier says new order banning school library books with sexual content coming soon

RCI News
Margaret Atwood takes another shot at Alberta’s book ban with satirical story

CBC News
70 leading Canadians, civil society groups ask Carney to protect Canada's 'digital sovereignty'

CBC News
Premier pours out a bottle of Crown Royal to protest Diageo closing an Ontario plant

CBC News
Large wildfire in B.C.'s Cariboo region sparks evacuation order

CBC News
Why is it so hard to find the source of a legionnaires' outbreak?

Canadian Commentary

Kevin Lynch and Jim Mitchell | The Globe and Mail
Implementing Canada’s new defence priorities will take more work than just finding the money

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
There is no flood of newcomers anymore, Mr. Poilievre

David M. Shribman | The Globe and Mail
Is there no end to Trump extending the prerogatives of presidential power?

André Picard | The Globe and Mail
Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with his ban on animal research

Trevor Neiman | National Post
Canada must treat fighting espionage as a national priority

International News

MSNBC News
Pentagon to provide hundreds of military lawyers to serve as immigration judges

CNN News
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser aiming to ‘get out of’ Trump’s takeover

CNN News
Confirmed: America Is in a Serious Jobs Slump

The Associated Press
More files from Epstein sex trafficking investigation released

CNN News
Epstein survivor says his impact on her is clear from her school yearbooks

CNN News
Epstein abuse survivors speak on Capitol Hill

BBC News
Epstein accusers say they are compiling list of his associates

CNN News
The Trump Administration's Elaborate Mirage of Transparency on Epstein

CNN News
Epstein files push hits a ‘boiling point’ in Congress as Trump dismisses it as a hoax - More

MSNBC News
Trump family’s crypto deal insulates them from their meme coin’s falling value

CNN News
Trump is primed to cash in on the crypto gold rush he’s helping create

Reuters News Agency
Trump to ask U.S. Supreme Court to save tariffs but faces tough legal questions - More

CNN News
If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion

MSNBC News
The problem(s) with Kristi Noem accusing CBS of ‘deceptively’ editing an interview

BBC News
Tesco trials avocado ripeness scanners

CBC Radio
The threat next door: How Finns prepare for a Russian attack

Agence France-Presse
Russian drone and missile strikes leave thousands without power in Ukraine

CNN News
Winter is coming for Ukraine: What it will take to keep the lights on?

BBC News
Putin says Russia will achieve all aims militarily if Ukraine does not agree deal

BBC News
Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks

France 24
Kim and Putin join Xi Jinping at massive military parade in Beijing - More

BBC News
What new weapons on show at huge parade say about China's military strength

BBC News
What do we know about Kim Jong-un's daughter - and potential successor?

BBC News
Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality

CNN News
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up

The Associated Press
U.S. military kills 11 in strike on alleged drug speedboat leaving Venezuela

BBC Verify
US strike on 'Venezuela drug boat': What do we know, and was it legal?

Agence France-Presse
Affaire Epstein : une commission du Congrès américain publie des dizaines de milliers de documents

Agence France-Presse
Ukraine : des milliers de foyers privés d'électricité après de nouveaux bombardements russes

Agence France-Presse
Xi Jinping s'entoure de Vladimir Poutine et Kim Jong-un pour un défilé militaire géant à Pékin

Agence France-Presse
Les États-Unis affirment avoir frappé un bateau parti du Venezuela et tué 11 "narcoterroristes"

International Commentary

David Frum | The Atlantic
The Fight for Truth

Michael Schuman | The Atlantic
Putin and Xi Are Holding the West Together

Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times
The One Danger That Should Unite the U.S. and China

Rachel Monroe | The New Yorker
Texas Democrats’ Weapons of the Weak

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
The Trump Administration Gets a Serious Scolding

Thomas B. Edsall | The New York Times
Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
The economy has slowed significantly since Trump instituted his tariffs

Jarvis DeBerry | CNN News
Jeanine Pirro’s promise to fight D.C. crime comes with this glaring caveat

Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC News
The most perverse thing during Blanche/Maxwell interview was their laughter

Books

Joan Biskupic | CNN News
Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book