Two members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet will be in Palm Beach, Fla., Friday to meet with members of Donald Trump’s team.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly and newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are making the trip south to further discussions with members of the future Trump administration, ahead of inauguration day on Jan. 20.
The 2024 presidential election dragged on for what seemed like forever and was certainly a rollercoaster of emotions for Democrats. During all that time, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View had made several proclamations and predictions about the state of the race that didn’t age as well as they hoped.
From high-pitched declarations that “the candidate is Joe” to claims that Democrats would cure America of their Trump amnesia to conspiracy theories of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. trying to “buy” the election, their attempts to manifest a Democratic victory fell flat. But in other instances, their worst fears came to be realized.
Canadians preparing to head to the polls in the new year are likely to be voting with their wallets.
Cost-of-living issues continue to dominate the list of priorities for Canadians, according to the findings of new Ipsos polling conducted exclusively for Global News.
An attempt by the rapper Jay-Z to dismiss a federal lawsuit in which he was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs at a party in 2000 has been dismissed.
The lawsuit was filed in October by an anonymous woman accusing Combs of rape at a party after the MTV Video Music awards. It was then refiled this month with Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, accused of taking part.
Canadians are losing millions of dollars in cryptocurrency fraud schemes and at least one Ontario detective specializing in the area predicts such scams will soon outpace wire transfers as the largest payment method used by fraudsters.
Ontario Provincial Police are warning potential cryptocurrency investors to do more to protect themselves as the digital currency’s popularity grows.
OPP Det.-Const. John Armit with the anti-rackets branch says crypto scam cases are difficult for police to solve because the currency can be quickly sent to exchanges in different jurisdictions around the world that may or may not be willing to cooperate with police in the province.
A Houthi political official says the group will continue attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians despite the escalating Israeli air strikes in Yemen.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told the BBC that the Houthis would “escalate our military targeting of Israel” until it stopped what he described as “the genocide in Gaza”.
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes struck the international airport in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and ports and power stations on the Red Sea coast, killing at least four people.
In his 1997 book National Dreams: Myth, Memory and Canadian History, which explores the roots, foundations and part-truths that form the basis of Canadian identity, historian Daniel Francis wrote that civic ideology in a country like Canada must be a deliberate product: something that needs to be “continually recreated and reinforced.” Canadians rely on this social construct more than other people, Mr. Francis argued, “because we lack a common religion, language, or ethnicity, because we are spread out so sparsely across such a huge piece of real estate.” It is not, as Mr. Francis wrote, something “we come by naturally.”
Surely that is even more true now than it was more than 25 years ago.
One of the big rumors that hung over Joe Biden’s term as president was foreign business dealings. Through his son Hunter, we heard that the Biden family was making business deals with firms in China, Russia, and Ukraine, with percentages funneling to “The Big Guy,” aka then-Vice President Biden, for selling the “Biden brand” and sealing deals based on Papa Joe’s influence as a mover and shaker in Washington, D.C.
The recent spectacular and decisive presidential election victory by Donald Trump — a self-styled benevolent “dictator” swept to power with an unequivocal mandate from U.S. voters — has become what can only be described as a political tsunami for left-leaning observers.
Vast change is in the offing. The political tectonic plates have shifted, prompting shattering eruptions along a number of predictable fault lines.
The city of Magdeburg and its police department may be held criminally liable for failing to prevent last week’s Christmas market attack that killed five, with criminal charges filed and an investigation into their competence underway.
OTTAWA – Indian law enforcement agencies say they are investigating alleged links between dozens of colleges in Canada and two “entities” in Mumbai accused of illegally ferrying students across the Canada-United States border.
A news release Tuesday from India’s Enforcement Directorate — a multi-disciplinary organization that investigates money laundering and foreign exchange laws — said a multi-city search has revealed “incriminating” evidence of “human trafficking.”
The Morrison Hotel, the famous backdrop for The Doors’ 1970 album named after it, was destroyed by a huge fire Thursday while being occupied by dozens of homeless squatters.
Almost 100 firefighters worked for at least two hours from 11 a.m. to control the fire at the downtown Los Angeles hotel best known for being on the cover of the legendary rock album.
The blaze destroyed the roof of the building now red-tagged as being unlivable.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA—Every day, just before sunset, 33-year-old Ryan Hemsley heads to Clover Point, a scenic stretch along the southern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province. When the weather is clear, he can look across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and see the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.
“Subconsciously, there’s something that keeps bringing me here every day,” Hemsley told me. Watching the Seattle ferry return to the U.S., his thoughts drift to an unlikely fantasy.
“How can I be a stowaway so I can be an American?” he said.
#REPORT: Global Affairs Canada, which is overseen by Trudeau Liberal foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly, spent $51,000 on average per month on alcohol-related expenses in 2024. pic.twitter.com/cZrAZgkpyE
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) December 26, 2024
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Germany’s head of state started the countdown to a general election on Friday by dissolving the country’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
“I have decided to dissolve the 20th German Bundestag to fix the date for an early election for February 23,” said President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, adding that “political stability in Germany is a precious asset.”
Steinmeier’s decision follows a request to do so after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence in the legislature on December 16.
