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Carson Jerema: There is no ‘business case’ for pipelines because Liberals want it that way

There is something perverse about a government that once claimed there is "no business case" to sell natural gas to Europe so our allies don't have to rely on Russia, but whose prime minister is happily going to China to talk energy exports. That energy, by the way, could very well end up powering a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The Liberal party's disreputable habit of siding with authoritarian enemies of the West aside, the government's position on whether there is a "business case" for an energy project has nothing to do with the market, and everything to do with politics. Read More
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Adam Zivo: The Shah of Canada — Iranian-Canadians pulling for crown prince

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 be replaced with a transitional government led by exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi. Read More
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The pet I’ll never forget: Dory the 10kg rabbit, who saved me from a diabetic coma

My Flemish giant bunny loved chomping on carrots, computer cables and my skirting board – and being walked on a leash. When I suffered a medical emergency, she jumped into action

The first time I saw a Flemish giant rabbit was at TruckFest in Peterborough in 2002. Among a sprawling maze of stalls at the East of England showground, I was led into a tent filled with the biggest rabbits I’d ever laid eyes on. I’d never heard of Flemish giants before, but I knew then that I needed one. I couldn’t have predicted in that moment that one of these beautiful creatures might save my life.

Dory was a baby when I met her, but even as a bunny she was already bigger than most normal-sized rabbits. We brought her home in a cat carrier, but she soon outgrew it. By the time she was fully grown, she weighed nearly 10kg, and I was walking her on a leash like a dog.

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© Photograph: Courtesy of Simon Steggall

© Photograph: Courtesy of Simon Steggall

© Photograph: Courtesy of Simon Steggall

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Trump is repeating mistakes of Iraq in Venezuela | Mohamad Bazzi

As it did in 2003, the US is underestimating the potential for instability as Trump resurrects one of the Iraq war’s biggest myths

“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!” Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in Iraq, famously declared at a press conference in Baghdad on 14 December 2003, a day after US troops had captured Saddam Hussein. Iraqis in the audience broke out in cheers, leapt up from their seats and pumped their fists in the air – many had waited decades for that moment. “This is a great day in Iraq’s history,” Bremer said, adding: “The tyrant is a prisoner.”

I was in the audience that day in Baghdad, covering the Iraq invasion’s aftermath as a correspondent for a US newspaper. It quickly became clear that Bremer and other jubilant US officials would use the occasion – US soldiers dragged the disheveled former Iraqi dictator out of a hole in the ground where he had been hiding near his home town – to declare that America’s war had reached a decisive turn. Despite a growing insurgency led by ex-members of the Iraqi security forces, US officials in Baghdad and Washington projected confidence that victory was in sight now that Saddam was locked up and headed for the gallows.

Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University

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© Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images

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One look at my baby’s dungarees was all it took to give me the rage

Why should he, an eight-month-old boy, have more pockets on his clothes than I do?

There’s much about becoming a new mother that could be filed under “maddening”. The phrase “sleep when the baby sleeps”. The way people stop asking how you are, instead only asking after the baby. The sheer volume of unsolicited advice – some barbed, some so painfully obvious it’s borderline offensive, and all of it totally inescapable. (I suppose I could try living on a desert island, though no doubt someone would send a plane to skywrite: “They’re probably just hungry!”)

But it was while doing the laundry last week that I found something truly unhinged. I was sorting my infant son’s clothes from mine when I noticed that he had more pockets on his clothes than I did. What exactly does an eight-month-old need with a tiny pocket? Is he supposed to keep something in there? A dummy? Bits of rice cake? All the sleep he’s stolen from me (in which case he’d need a bigger pocket)?

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© Photograph: Posed by model; Tetra Images, LLC/Alamy

© Photograph: Posed by model; Tetra Images, LLC/Alamy

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Iran Prepared for War but Ready to Negotiate With U.S., Foreign Minister Says

The comments came after President Trump said he was “ looking at some very strong options” to curb Iran’s harsh repression of anti-government protests.

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Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Beirut, Lebanon, last week. On Monday, he expressed an openness to negotiations with the United States.
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US will have Greenland ‘one way or the other’, says Trump – Europe live

US president repeats his desire for the territory as he mocks its defences as ‘two dog sleds’ and shrugs off impact on Nato

Chair of the Danish parliament’s Greenland committee, Aaja Chemnitz, told reporters that the planned meeting with US senators was “good news” as it was “important for us to use all the diplomatic connections we have at our disposal.”

Chemnitz, a Greenlandic politician sitting in the Danish parliament, said there were “lots” of incorrect claims about Greenland, and “it is absolutely crucial we get some truths on the table.”

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© Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

© Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

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Sikh activist in UK told to increase security over Hindu nationalist threats

Police ask Paramjeet Singh Pamma to install security cameras and reinforce door locks at his home

Police have advised a high-profile Sikh activist in the UK to install security cameras at his home and reinforce door locks because of threats from Hindu nationalist elements.

Paramjeet Singh Pamma, 52, said he had been visited by police and received verbal advice to increase his security due to intelligence suggesting threats to his safety.

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© Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

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