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Carson Jerema: The phoney Donald Trump annexation crisis

So it turns out Donald Trump doesn't really want to annex Canada. Seriously. Anyone who watched his news conference Tuesday, and not just the short clip shared on social media, should come away assured, as much as one can be with Trump anyway, that his comments about this country becoming the 51st state really are little more than trolling. Certainly, the U.S. president-elect repeatedly musing about absorbing Canada has never been funny, and the words themselves undermine Canadian sovereignty, but nothing Trump said Tuesday was much different than what he's been saying for weeks. Read More

Bird flu brought a B.C. teen close to death. Here’s what we know about H5N1

The bird flu virus that brought a Canadian teen to the "brink of death" may have mutated while inside her body to become more efficient at spreading among humans. The case, and the death of a Louisiana resident over the age of 65 who was hospitalized with a severe H5N1 avian flu infection in December, are stark reminders "that this is not a mild virus," said Matthew Miller, Canada Research Chair in viral pandemics at McMaster University in Hamilton. The Louisiana fatality marks the first U.S. death from highly pathogenic avian influenza. The B.C. girl's infection is Canada's first domestically acquired case of H5N1. Read More

Chris Selley: Liberals seem suicidal for sticking with Trudeau’s insane leadership rules

It’s far from the craziest thing about the current state of federal politics, or of the Liberal Party of Canada specifically, but it was still amazing to see someone from the party asserting that Liberals intend to head into their woefully ill-timed leadership campaign under the same rules, if they can be so called, that they adopted in 2016. Read More

Derek Burney: Lengthy U.S. government transition process must be overhauled

The protracted, often precarious two-and-a-half-month transition between the election and inauguration of a new U.S. president needs reform. The contrast with the timing of transitions in parliamentary democracies like Britain (two days) or Canada (about two weeks) is striking. Both are more efficient in ensuring peaceful transfers of power and orderly deliveries of campaign promises. Read More
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