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COMMON GROUND
AS PARLIAMENT RESUMES, POILIEVRE AND CARNEY FACE THE SAME CHALLENGE: TO TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP ON POWER — OR WATCH IT SLIP AWAY
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‘Canada thrives because we are Canadians’
Days after a commanding speech that earned him praise on the world stage, Prime Minister Mark Carney was back in the country to hammer the values and choices that have set Canada apart for centuries — and will continue to do so, he said. He also had a...
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CANADA LIVES BECAUSE OF THE UNITED STATES. REMEMBER THAT, MARK
Among those who are freaking out about Donald Trump, no one is behaving like he’s actually a threat. Either they don’t believe their own doomspeak, or they’re too incompetent to prepare for an allegedly imminent invasion. On Wednesday, the U.S....
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PM LAYS OUT ‘BRUTAL REALITY’
One of the most sage voices on social media in these nebulous days is that of Polish academic Slawomir Debski. To those lamenting that NATO is dead as a result of Donald Trump’s intrigues over Greenland, and the imposition of tariffs on allies that...
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Showdown in Greenland could be a win for Canada
Donald Trump’s threat to impose fresh tariffs on his European allies unless Denmark agrees to sell Greenland is further proof that the world cannot afford to base policy on what the U.S. president may or may not do, and that efforts to negotiate with...
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Xi welcomes steady stream of leaders shaken by Trump’s new world order
Donald Trump’s tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world’s other major economy. South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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SHAKEUP
OT TAWA • While Parliament Hill swirls with speculation about potential floor-crossings, one Conservative MP is raising his hand, but for a different reason: to assist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government navigate the Canada-u.s. relationship. “I...
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Iranian refugee in Canada inspires viral meme
It was an iconic image: A photogenic young Iranian woman filmed herself lighting a cigarette with a picture of Iran’s leader, an evocative protest against the misogynistic clerics who run Iran. It grabbed the attention of a world captivated by the...
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‘PREPARED FOR WAR’
As the popular uprising against Tehran’s Islamic regime enters its third week, Iranian-canadians are doing all they can to show solidarity and call for revolution. Their message is clear and united: the mullahs governing Iran are illegitimate and must...
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WHO CANADA IS NOW
Canada has a demographics problem. Is immigration still the answer? Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to 41.58 million people, according to the latest population estimates, and the average age was 41.7. At the time of the last census, just over...
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What happens next could change the Mideast
It appears Iranians have had enough of the terrorist regime that rules their lives. After nearly two consecutive weeks of protests, and the murder of over 30 people by the Mullah’s henchmen, videos circulating widely on X show that Iranians are still...
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Diehard snowbirds say ‘you can’t beat the weather’
Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn’t see themselves as tourists anymore. “We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our...
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IT’S NOT JUST VENEZUELA, IRAN IS PART OF THIS, TOO
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran may seem an unlikely pairing in the effort to make sense of the world at the moment, but the dramatic events unfolding in these two decrepit kleptocracies aren’t just coinciding in...
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Will top U.S. court end the tariff turmoil?
’Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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BROKEN FAITH
Seven years for fatally stabbing a stranger. Eighteen months for a string of sucker-punch attacks. Time served for a fatal swarming of a homeless man. Canadians no longer understand or trust their justice system. Chris Selley says the public, and...
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Magnetic North Pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia
Alesser known feature of the planet Earth’s magnetic field has recently gained a special Canadian connection that is often overlooked in the better known science story about the magnetic North Pole drifting away from Canada toward Russia. The...
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Canada promised Jews safety. Instead, we face runaway hate
My name is Harley Finkelstein. I am a proud Jewish-canadian, an entrepreneur and the grandson of Holocaust survivors. I am also the son of immigrants who came to Canada more than half a century ago after fleeing Hungary following the 1956 revolution....
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Ex-oligarch loses fight to lift Canadian sanctions
Abillionaire and former Russian oligarch who renounced his Russian citizenship in the summer of 2023 has failed in his bid to get Canadian sanctions against him lifted. Igor Viktorovich Makarov’s case wound up at the Federal Court of Appeal after...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three-per-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
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When a criminal enterprise on the scale of Vladimir Putin’s Russia can expect to get away with invading a European country ... and fear no U.s.-enforced consequences, it’s hard to figure how any democracy’s national sovereignty is sacrosanct.
It was an ignominious end to a squalid year for the “rules based” world order. It came in the last days of the second decade of democracy’s global retreat from the advances of Russia, China and the rest of the police-state bloc in Eastern Europe, the...
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Merry Christmas
The first thing you notice at Tom Thomson’s grave in winter is the little cluster of paintbrushes bursting like flowers through the snow. Look closer and you read that it is in fact three graves, also containing the great painter’s infant brother James...
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What happened to Lilly and Jack?
Lilly and Jack Sullivan’s names grace decorations on their paternal grandmother’s Christmas tree, but Belynda Gray is under no illusion the children are still alive. Lilly, 6, and her four-year-old brother, Jack, were first reported missing from their...
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BOOM AND GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world’s largest automakers is building Canada’s biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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the incredible shrinking CARRY-ON
When Ontario resident Cindy Mckay was preparing for a month in Europe this year, travelling with her 12-year-old grandson and living out of the contents of two carry-on bags, she knew she had homework to do. “British Airways, Ryanair, Scandinavian,”...
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FROM A STATEMENT BY AN ACTIVIST GROUP IN MONTREAL.
Three individuals, dressed in Santa costumes, joined by about 40 elves, filled multiple bags full of groceries and exited without paying, in an assumed political act.
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Newest Liberal faces questions on China stance
The surprise defection of former Conservative MP Michael Ma to the Liberals has prompted allegations of an overly close orientation to Chinese-government views, as well as protests and a petition urging him to resign. A small group of demonstrators...
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‘He was a hero ... He put himself in the face of danger’
A Jewish couple in their 60s tried to stop one of the alleged Bondi Beach attackers by grabbing his gun, dramatic dashcam footage shows. Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61, were set to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in January, but on...
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THEY DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE JEWISH
Among the victims of the deadly terror attack that targeted the Jewish community gathered at Australia’s Bondi Beach on Sunday was a Holocaust survivor who died while shielding his wife. Alex Kleytman, 87, was at the event celebrating the start of...
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CATASTROPHE
Homelessness isn’t just a plague on big cities anymore. Addiction, danger and despair are overwhelming small towns as well, with growing fear among residents that it’s just going to get worse. Allen Abel takes a tour of the front lines of a Canadian...
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DESPITE WAR, INTIMIDATION AND BDS ... ISRAEL THRIVES
Sunday evening is the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the victorious Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Greeks in second century BC. The menorah, lit with a jug of oil for eight days, serves as a symbol of the triumph of Jewish...
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Critics of MAID, Medicare latch on to woman’s plight
A Saskatchewan woman who got approved for a medically assisted death because of a years-long wait to receive surgery for her chronically painful condition may finally get treated. American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has offered to pay for her...
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Young mother sounds alarm on energy drinks
A 10-year-old New Brunswick girl suffered an apparent seizure after buying, and quickly gulping back, two large energy drinks, terrifying her family and spurring calls for a federal ban on the sale of the caffeinated beverages to minors. When Kayla...
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I don’t think that three years ago, anybody would dream that such a thing would happen.
Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman, after prayer scrolls were Ripped from the Jewish doors of toronto seniors at a building. apartment
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor’s place in the country’s booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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CANADIAN GLORY
Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on gamechanging people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oilsands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting...
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Canada drifts into darkness as the rot grows ever deeper
Canada continues to drift into darkness. These past few weeks, I have written about what I would call the flag of terror (the Palestinian flag) shamelessly raised over our cities. This is the same flag worn this week by Hamas terrorists on their...
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AN ASSISTED-SUICIDE TIME BOMB IS TICKING FOR MARK CARNEY
Prime Minister Mark Carney has displayed a remarkable willingness to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor across the public policy board. In the coming months, he may be tempted to take another look at one of the more indefensible decisions made by...
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‘Early on, it was very lonely,’ wife says of Bruce Willis’s decline
It was the return of Bruce Willis’s childhood stutter that gave his wife Emma Heming Willis her first hint that something was wrong. “Never in my wildest dreams did I realize that was a symptom,” she told an audience in Toronto on Tuesday. Bruce...
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ONTARIO THE NEW ‘WILD WEST’ OF ‘ SAFER SUPPLY’
Canadian addiction experts say Ontario needs to better regulate “safer supply” prescribing because unscrupulous doctors have been cashing in by opening “electronic pill mills” — video terminals where addicts can receive enormous opioid prescriptions...
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Hiroshima survivor ‘so disappointed’ in the U.S. president
Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing words at a three-day international meeting about peace, when U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he wanted to resume testing of nuclear...
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SITTING IN JUDGMENT
In the end, the verdict came late on a Friday afternoon when Toronto’s courthouse was quiet, and the only other observers in the gallery were a few curious staff. But two weeks previously, it was a bright and bustling fall morning when Tamar Cupid,...
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If Ukrainian troops withdraw from the territories they occupy, hostilities will cease. If they don’t withdraw, we will achieve this by force.
U.S. proposals to end the war between Russia and Ukraine offer a starting point for talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, as he told Ukrainian forces to pull back or be overrun by Russia’s bigger army. “We need to sit down and discuss...
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Goal is ‘more autonomy,’ not separation: minister
• Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-barrette says his goal is not to unilaterally declare Quebec independence with his recently tabled draft constitution. In an interview with the National Post, Jolin-barrette, who is also minister responsible for...
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Carney’s tunnel vision on trade
Even Justin Trudeau’s own former global affairs minister, the late Marc Garneau, thought his government’s foreign policy prioritized style over substance — a perception that he said weakened Canada’s standing on the international stage. It was to be...
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Why Canada can’t back Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine
Point No. 4 of President Donald Trump’s plan to bring peace to Ukraine screams the quiet part about the new world order at top volume: “a dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States, to resolve all security...
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Is your doctor receiving payments from a drug company?
In Canada, when a doctor hands you a prescription, you trust that what’s been recommended is the best drug for your health. What you can’t know is whether your physician has benefited financially from a relationship with the company that made the drug...
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SHOULD WE START WRITING OUR NATION’S OBITUARY, OR SHOULD WE STOP BEING OUR OWN WORST ENEMY?
Ipresent the following thought exercise to you: if some overeager, industrious journalist were to write an obituary for Canada, how would it read? “Today, the world marked the passing of Canada, younger than most, older than some. Canada, on her best...
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‘EVERYONE IS AGREED THAT IT’S AWFUL’
You’re a Canadian farm kid, sitting in a European trench in 1915. A man you’ve never met is dying across a stretch of open land, 100 yards away, as you pen a letter home. Death is everywhere. You’ve shot moving bodies, you’ve huddled against incoming...
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AN OLD PHOTO AND SILVER WINGS REVEAL A LOST WARTIME LOVE,
I had looked at that picture of my mother hundreds of times as it sat on her dresser in the nursing home where she spent the last 18 months of her life in Qualicum, B.C. — a beautiful Scottish 19-year-old with dark long curls framing her face and...
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‘Complete depopulation’ of ostriches
OTTAWA • Crews from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency wearing hazmat suits entered Universal Ostrich Farms in B.C. to round up more than 300 ostriches after the Supreme Court dashed the flock’s last chance of survival on Thursday. Supporters, who...
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Floor-crossing MP hints more Conservatives might follow
The Liberals’ newest addition to caucus, Chris d’entremont, said on Wednesday that he was not “aligned” with his former leader Pierre Poilievre’s political ideals and hinted that other Conservatives may be following his example. The Nova Scotia MP...
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WHAT AUSTERITY?
• After 18 months without a budget, the minority Liberals tabled their “Canada Strong” plan containing nearly $126 billion in new spending and $60 billion in savings, which they hope will convince at least one opposition party to prevent an early...
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The Government is of the view that ... judicial salaries are adequate.
OTTAWA • The federal government rejected a recommendation by an independent commission to increase judges’ salaries by $28,000, saying it can’t justify the raise in this economy. In a statement posted online Monday, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said...
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INSIDE TRUMP’S GOLDEN DOME
Since ordering the Pentagon in January to erect a U.S. missile defence shield partly based in space, President Donald Trump has claimed that it would be completed by the end of his term and cost $175 billion. His signature national security effort will...
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THE MILITARY WANTS TO ADD 370,000 RESERVISTS. IS THE AGE OF NEGLECT OVER?
The sight of Prime Minister Mark Carney emerging from a South Korean submarine flying the Maple Leaf flag this week was symbolic of the urgency with which the prime minister appears intent on restoring the rusting Canadian Armed Forces. Carney was in...
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BRACING FOR A ‘DRACONIAN’ BUDGET BY STEALTH
The Carney government tried to inoculate itself against charges of austerity on Wednesday as François-philippe Champagne promised “sustained funding” for gender equality programs. But what the finance minister’s right hand giveth, his left hand is set...
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Awkward in Gyeongju
Donald Trump may not have wanted to meet with Mark Carney “for a while,” but the U.S. president couldn’t avoid facing the prime minister at a state dinner in South Korea on Wednesday. The two world leaders are in the country this week for the...
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Lobby targets Zionist groups
The campaign to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state in the eyes of Canadian policy-makers and the general public has now set its sights on the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), one of this country’s leading advocacy groups for Israel...
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Dismantle UN’S anti-israel commission
On Tuesday, a UN commission of inquiry on Israel will yet again present a report accusing the Jewish state of genocide. Days later, all three members will step down. Instead of replacing them, however, the UN would better serve the cause of humanity...
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Access to cheap Canadian meds on life support
Linda Klonsky usually orders her prescription eye drops from a Canadian pharmacy that charges US$250 for a three-month supply. But that came to an abrupt halt late this summer when it came time for her to reorder, as the Trump administration’s latest...
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Unable to bench press 100 pounds with cameras rolling at a ‘Men’s Day’ athletic festival this summer, Mamdani is urbane if not grittily urban.
ALLEN ABEL TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT ZOHRAN KWAME MAMDANI, THE 33-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM WHO COULD SOON BE MAYOR OF NEW YORK. ALLEN ABEL TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT ZOHRAN KWAME MAMDANI, THE 33-YEAR-OLD MUSLIM WHO COULD SOON BE MAYOR OF NEW YORK.
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Hacked by Iran, activist fears ‘the Salman Rushdie syndrome’
A Muslim Pakistani-canadian activist journalist who is critical of Islamic fundamentalism fears for her life after fielding two warnings recently that she’s in the digital crosshairs of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Raheel Raza, a...
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CHILDREN AMONG DEAD AS RUSSIAN DRONES STRIKE MULTIPLE TARGETS Rescuers in Kharkiv evacuate children after Russian drones hit a kindergarten during an attack that included Kyiv, Odesa and other regions, jeopardizing a summit between Russian President Vlad
Russia launched multiple drone and missile strikes on Ukraine as the latest peace attempts by U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to be floundering. The attack killed at least seven civilians, including children, with more than a dozen injured across...
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MILITARY IS FAILING RECRUITS: AUDITOR
Not only has the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) not recruited and trained the members it needs to meet its operational requirements, but the living accommodations of the existing CAF members have been found to lack basics like safe drinking water. These...
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Property rights panic in B.C.
The City of Richmond has launched the first salvo in what will ultimately be the battle to decide the future of private land ownership in British Columbia. By failing to make its best arguments to defend the public interest, British Columbia’s NDP...
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THE ACCIDENTAL POWER COUPLE
For five long years, Belarusian opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky was held in total isolation. When he was abruptly freed this June in a “miracle” prisoner release made possible by U.S. President Donald Trump, he returned to a world and a home he no...
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Well, look, truth is, the only certain thing in life is death, but we are effective.
A HUMAN SMUGGLER FROM QUEBEC IN A TEXT TO THE HUSBAND OF A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO LATER DIED IN A FRIGID ATTEMPT TO SNEAK ACROSS THE U.S. BORDER.
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HAMAS TIGHTENS GRIP ON POST-WAR GAZA STRIP
They blindfolded eight men accused of collaborating with Israel, made them kneel and executed them at pointblank range on a busy street in Gaza City. They sent jeeps filled with fighters to pursue the Astal militia, whose leader said it co-ordinates...
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CANADA’S LAGGING GROWTH FORECAST
A Crown corporation is forecasting that the Canadian economy will officially fall into a recession this calendar year, part of a global downturn directly linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. Export Development Canada (EDC) is...
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Couple pulled apart by terror reunited
As relief and grief flow from the release of the last living Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza the reunion of former hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or symbolically completes the circle of the hostage crisis for a watching public. The...
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ISRAEL’S HOSTAGE NIGHTMARE ENDS
Even Donald Trump’s harshest critics — among whom I count myself — have to concede that he has orchestrated a landmark deal in the Middle East that maximized American leverage. Trump declared it the “end of an age of terror and death,” which is...
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Canadian steel billionaire, and trump supporter, barry Zekelman on what he thinks of liberal steel-import days. policies these he is not a fan.
I called them socialist, communist bastards, and I said you should all rot in hell. I texted it to them ... and Joly, she’s like, ‘Barry, calm down ...’ I’m like, ‘Nope, go f--- yourself.’
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PEACE, MAYBE
Well, that’s it then. The hostages are to be released, the Israel Defense Forces will withdraw from Gaza and the Israeli-palestinian war is over. Except Hamas is still armed to the teeth, the IDF will remain in Gaza, and the war is not over. But there...
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100, 000, 000, 000
It’s quite a challenge to conventional thinking but Stéfane Marion is optimistic about the upcoming federal budget, even though he predicts the deficit will hit $100 billion. The chief economist of National Bank Financial has been a vocal critic of...
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