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Usually, if a child swats another child with a toy dinosaur, it does not cause catastrophic injury. Read More

Less than a day after the U.S. launched air strikes against Venezuela and captured its president, U.S. President Donald Trump started spouting off about his desire to take over Greenland, highlighting the fundamental problem with his approach to foreign affairs: while many of his policies — such as imposing tariffs on China and toppling Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro — could strengthen the West and weaken its enemies, his propensity to impose equally punitive measures on friendly nations has us continually fighting among ourselves, playing right into the hands of our adversaries. Read More

The Danish people are feeling shocked, and not a little betrayed, by President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, a constituent part of the Kingdom of Denmark, says one of the country’s most senior diplomats. Read More

A New Brunswick paper mill worker fired for equating Zionists to Nazis has seen his dismissal replaced with four months of unpaid leave. Read More

On Tuesday, Albertans learned (thanks to CP’s Jack Farrell) of an interesting data point in labour’s quiet voter-recall war against the United Conservative government. In October, the Alberta assembly passed a statute ordering striking schoolteachers back to work — something that was routine throughout Canada until 2015, when the Supreme Court discovered an unwritten and previously undetected right to strike in the Charter. The back-to-work bill invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, overriding the novel Charter right, in order to get schools open before autumn turned into winter. Read More

In space, no one can hear you fight. Read More

The endless stream of YouTube videos and articles about how to detach from the social media’s digital quicksand in the new year suggest a turning point: we’ve officially had it with our phones. Read More

Did the Liberal government lie about the effects of mass immigration, or simply get it wrong? It is almost certainly a heady mix of both. Canadians were told not to notice what was happening right in front of them, and they have every reason to be angry about the impact it had on their lives, most notably on affordability or the sudden emergence of shady “career” colleges in strip malls. Read More

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. government to pull out of 66 international organizations that the White House said “no longer serve American interests.” Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump levelled fresh criticism toward NATO, days after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said his desired takeover of her nation’s territory of Greenland would mean the end of the military alliance. Read More

OTTAWA — With time ticking down until the Liberals launch their long-awaited "buyback" program for government-banned firearms, the federal government confirmed on Wednesday that only 25 guns were turned over as part of a test run.  Read More

The Trump administration released updated nutrition guidelines that bring back a revamped version of the food pyramid, while urging people to eat less sugar and more protein. Read More

Policing issues in the United Kingdom’s third-largest urban area wouldn’t normally interest Canadians. But Craig Guildford, chief constable of the West Midlands Police (Birmingham being the biggest city under his watch) is currently in very hot water of a sort that some Canadian police chiefs should be, perhaps, as well. A Nov. 6 Europa League soccer match between storied Birmingham club Aston Villa and storied Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was contested in front of roughly 43,000 empty seats, has become emblematic of Jews in the U.K. essentially being punished for their own persecution. And it happens here too. Read More

The owner of a Toronto sex toy shop says the business has received two letters from the U.S. Department of War asking it to stop sending butt-plugs to its Bahrain naval base in the Persian Gulf.  Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government estimates there are nearly 2,500 businesses or people in Canada working surreptitiously on behalf of foreign states to influence local politics and governments who will need to register publicly. Read More

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman during a confrontation in Minneapolis, sparking anger from local officials over the presence of ICE agents in the city. Read More

Another Canadian member of Parliament has revealed that the Liberals have invited her to cross the floor to their side of the House of Commons, tipping it in their favour to form a majority government. Read More

Diana Fox Carney, the usually low-profile wife of Prime Minister Mark Carney, not only attended the opening of a women's-only hockey rink in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on Tuesday — she strapped on her skates and tested it out. Read More

While many brands are looking to modernize, Montreal-based clothing brand Kanuk is returning to its roots. Read More

A phone call proved costly for the CRA after a collections officer "provided minimal reasoning" to a Toronto financial firm for refusing to refund $879,092.36 collected for allegedly owed GST. As a result, the federal tax agency has been ordered by the Federal Court of Canada to pay $9,500 in legal costs. Read More

Denmark and Greenland are seeking a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, hoping to calm tensions between the two countries after the Trump administration doubled down on its intention to take over the Danish territory. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The new year began with a stark demonstration of U.S. power on Jan. 3 when American forces conducted a military raid in Caracas to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney will make an official visit to China next week as his government tries to rebuild relations with the Asian superpower and reduce Canada’s economic reliance on the US. Read More