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Canadian News

CBC News
CDS apologizes for racial discrimination and harassment - More

CBC News
Carney tours newly completed South Korean submarine - More

The Canadian Press
Religious symbols ban: Quebec passes law to prevent students, staff from covering their faces

National Post
Two Canadian airports are briefly closing towers over paucity of air traffic controllers

The Canadian Press
CN Rail lays off some 400 managers as tariffs take a bite out of shipping volumes

Postmedia News
CSIS employees applaud director's blunt memo on 'systemic' issues at spy agency

CBC News
Former senator Don Meredith found not guilty in sexual assault case - More

CBC News
Bank of Canada lowers key interest rate to 2.25%

Radio-Canada
La Banque du Canada réduit son taux directeur de 25 points de base, à 2,25 %

Radio-Canada
L’ambassadeur américain s’en prend au représentant de l’Ontario à Washington

Radio-Canada
L’État québécois achète de moins en moins québécois

Radio-Canada
Filière batterie : Lithion Technologies se protège de ses créanciers

Canadian Commentary

Chris Brown | CBC News
If China invades Taiwan, these islands would be on the front line. But there's little panic here.

André Pratte | National Post
Thirty years on from the 1995 referendum, we are now three solitudes

Aidan Kallioinen | National Post
A majority of Canadians see Canada as one nation: poll

Jesse Kline | National Post
Carney proves he wasn't the man to take on Trump, after all

John Ivison | National Post
Watch for Carney to deliver a ‘draconian’ budget by stealth

Patrice Dutil | National Post
Mackenzie King's power was in his pragmatism

David Pugliese | Ottawa Citizen
Who will win Canada’s multi-billion dollar submarine competition?

Kelly McParland | National Post
30 years of bad climate policy comes home to roost

International News

NBC News
Trump orders Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons 'on an equal basis' with other countries - More - More

The Associated Press
Trump’s comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here’s what to know about it.

The Guardian
Senate passes bill to nullify Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on more than 100 nations

NBC News
Tens of thousands of layoffs are being blamed on AI

CBS News
Day 30 of the government shutdown

The Associated Press
Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering U.S. It’ll be mostly white South Africans.

CBC News
Prince Andrew to lose 'Prince' title and longtime home - More

NBC News
Five new suspects arrested in Louvre heist - More

Agence France-Presse
French justice minister visits jailed former president Sarkozy

The Associated Press
Russia blasts Ukraine’s power grid again, causing outages across the country

The Associated Press
Ukraine denies Putin claim that Russian troops have surrounded two cities

The Guardian
Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine

The Guardian
Putin boasts of nuclear-driven torpedo that would swamp cities with radioactive tsunami

The Guardian
Trump directs Pentagon to match Russia and China in nuclear weapons testing

The Guardian
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan - More

The Guardian
Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid

NBC News
Trump lowers fentanyl tariffs on China, while Xi delays rare earth export controls - More

The Guardian
Five key takeaways from Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping - More

The Guardian
Trump gives South Korea permission to build nuclear-powered submarine

NBC News
South Korean mayor protested Trump's steel tariffs outside the White House

The Guardian
Argentinians contemplate future after Trump-backed Milei coasts to victory

CBC News
Jamaica took out an insurance policy for itself, and it’s about to pay off after Hurricane Melissa

The Guardian
Hurricane Melissa heads to Bermuda

Agence France-Presse
Trump ordonne de relancer les essais des armes nucléaires américaines

Agence France-Presse
Le prince Andrew dépouillé de ses titres et de sa résidence

Agence France-Presse
France : nouveau coup de filet dans l’enquête sur le cambriolage du Louvre

Le Monde
Ukraine : les attaques russes de la nuit ont fait plusieurs morts, dont une enfant

Agence France-Presse
À El-Fasher, au Soudan, plus de 460 personnes tuées dans une maternité, selon l’OMS

Radio-Canada
« Nous ne sommes pas venus en Corée du Sud pour voir le Canada », dit Trump

Agence France-Presse
Trump et Xi s’entendent pour apaiser leur conflit commercial

International Commentary

Patrick Wintour | The Guardian
Xi-Trump meeting: America has discovered that bullies can be bullied back

Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American
Operation Midway Blitz

Paul Krugman | Substack
How We Lost the Trade War

Books

Agence France-Presse
Ségolène Royal publie un livre, Mais qui va garder les enfants ? - Plus

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