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Trump does not rule the world

Donald Trump

The Trump administration cannot be allowed to get away with this thuggish behaviour that risks global depression, global peace and security and sustainability. It can be stopped and we have to do everything, with allies, to ensure that.

Trying to keep fear out of a fearful topic

Some 24 parliamentarians, including federal Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, sent a letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on Feb. 25 urging Joly to participate in nuclear disarmament discussions at the UN this week.

Canada’s foreign influence problem is about to escalate, here’s why

U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance has dismissed disinformation as a fabrication of ‘old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words’ to justify censorship. Similarly, U.S. President Donald Trump is amplifying pro-Russian propaganda, blaming Ukraine for starting Russia’s war of aggression against itself.

Time for Canada to work with Europe

U.S. President Donald Trump has put both Canada and Europe at the children’s table in deciding on Ukraine’s fate and other global conflicts.

First as tragedy, then as farce

Donald Trump is probably not going to start a war. Adolf Hitler was the tragedy; Trump is the farce. But even farces can do great damage. In this case, the principal victim of his antics will be the international rule of law, a fragile and relatively recent invention that has probably spared us from a nuclear war for the past 80 years.