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Many Canadians will recall the prime minister’s announcement last June that Canada would reach defence investment equal to two per cent of GDP in the current fiscal year, and the subsequent commitment to meet NATO’s even more ambitious five per cent target by 2035. Even at the time, these seemed like ambitious goals. As we approach the final quarter of the year, the specifics of how the spending is happening has slipped from the headlines, but the increasing chaos around the world confirms its importance. Read More
In April, 1996, newly-graduated biologist Patricia Wyman was mauled to death at her “dream job,” tending captive wolves at the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre Sanctuary. Commenting on the fact that she had entered the wolf enclosure alone, a wolf biologist rather delicately commented, “Her love of wolves perhaps made her a little more bold than she should have been.” Read More
Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said.
Even as dozens of political prisoners have been freed, at least 66 people taken by state authorities and never heard from again remain missing, relatives and rights groups say.
A super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is running ads against Tom Malinowski, who is hoping to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey in the House.
Baltimore homicides plummet to 134 in 2025, down from 334 in 2022, as prosecutors target repeat violent offenders with aggressive sentencing strategies.
Senate Democrats are ready to break a fragile truce that would avert a partial government shutdown after a Minneapolis man was fatally shot by a border patrol agent Saturday.
I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters
By 8 January, Iran’s anti-regime protests that began in late December had spread across the country with reports of at least 45 people killed by security forces. Over the next three days the regime appears to have instigated a brutal crackdown on protesters that is now estimated to have led to the deaths of more than 5,000 people.
By the time I reached the hospital in Tehran on Thursday (8 January) night, the sound of the city had already changed.
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