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Critics of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to re-establish Canada-China relations are trotting out the same misdirections. While China is not the solution to Canada's problems, it can be part of a solution to many of them, writes Senator Yuen Pau Woo. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
NATO and European leaders participate in a meeting on Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, on Dec. 15, 2025. Photograph courtesy of NATO/Flickr
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Thanks to Trump's recent capture of the Venezuelan president, Canada is massively effed, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Former Canadian diplomat Louise Blais said the American seizure of power in Caracas provides a key 'deliverable' for Trump: 'A pathway back to Venezuelan crude, under conditions Washington controls, at a time when global supply discipline is politically valuable.' Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikimedia
Brazil President Luiz Lula da Silva at an event in Fortaleza, Brazil, on March 12, 2025. In the space of 13 months, led by efforts from Lula, Brazil has catalyzed coalitions of the willing on hunger, artificial intelligence, forests, and more, Edward Jackson writes.   Photograph courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Wkimedia Commons
Monday, January 12, 2026