The U.S. Air Force released this week its strategy for defending the United States and Canada from threats posed by Russia but also China and other adversaries as beefing up continental defences increasingly takes the centre stage in relations between… »
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Violence engulfs South Sudan as UN warns of looming famine
Ten years after independence, staggering levels of violence have engulfed more than three-quarters of South Sudan, while hunger looms over 60 per cent of the country’s population, UN agencies warn. In a report released Friday, the UN Commission on Human… »
Economy, International, Politics
Biden’s 1st call to foreign leader will be to Trudeau Friday, says White House
U.S. President Joe Biden’s first call to a foreign leader will be with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters yesterday. Speaking during her first briefing with the media, Psaki said the two… »
Canada will ‘review’ U.S. findings of genocide in China’s Xinjiang: Garneau
As Beijing lashed out at the outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for designating China as a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity in the western province of Xinjiang, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said Canada takes those… »
Health, International, Politics, Society
Trudeau and Merkel discuss problems with global vaccination efforts
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his German counterpart, Chancellor Angela Merkel, discussed on Monday efforts to secure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and treatments, as the UN health body warned that “the world is on the brink of… »
Canada takes command of another NATO maritime task force
Barely two years after Commodore Josée Kurtz made NATO maritime history by becoming the first woman to command a multinational naval task force, Canada is once again leading another allied naval task force. Commodore Bradley Peats of the Royal Canadian… »
Economy, International, Politics
Joe Biden plans to cancel Keystone XL permit on 1st day in office
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to rescind the permit for the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day in office, CBC News reports. CBC News obtained over the weekend a purported note from the Biden transition… »
Aid groups worry U.S. terrorist designation of Yemen rebels will hasten famine
Aid groups and United Nations humanitarian agencies are calling on the U.S. government to reverse its decision to declare Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels a terrorist group, warning it could lead to massive famine and exacerbate the already dire humanitarian situation in… »
International, Longform, Politics
Unravelling the Nagorno-Karabakh knot
A rude awakening On Nov. 10, at 3 a.m., Raffi Elliott was roused from sleep by a huge commotion on the street outside his apartment building in downtown Yerevan. Looking out of the window, Elliott, a Canadian-Armenian journalist and entrepreneur… »
Burkina Faso faces ‘astounding’ displacement crisis: report
Burkina Faso is facing one of the world’s fastest growing displacement crises threatening to engulf the entire West African country and spill over into neighbouring Ghana, Benin, Togo, and Cote d’Ivoire, warns a report by the U.S.-based NGO Refugees International.… »
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