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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump had their first direct conversation in months, discussing trade, security, and Ukraine during a lengthy and substantive phone call. The call, initiated by Carney, marked the first high-profile contact between Ottawa and Washington since they failed to reach a trade
Deportation
Uganda, a country ruled by President Yoweri Museveni for over 39 years, has agreed to accept deportees from the United States, joining a list of authoritarian regimes accepting millions of migrants and asylum seekers. The Ugandan government initially denied the reports, citing a lack of infrastructure, but later acknowledged the
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Jerome H. Powell, the outgoing chair of the Federal Reserve, is facing a critical moment in his tenure as he weighs the risks of renewed inflation against a fragile labor market. The Fed's goals of low and stable inflation and high employment are increasingly at odds, with inflation
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Mexico and Canada, long viewed as distant partners, are now exploring ways to collaborate as they face increasing trade pressure from their powerful neighbor, the United States. With President Trump's new tariffs and threats to their countries' sovereignty, Canada's foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand, and
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European leaders rushed to Washington to reassure President Trump that a bad deal for Ukraine would not be accepted, but despite a show of support, a road map for peace remains elusive. The meeting, which had a "dreamlike quality," saw European leaders present a unified front, but ultimately,
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S&P Global has announced that it will maintain its sovereign credit rating on US government debt at 'AA+/A-1+', citing the revenues generated from President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policies as a key factor. The agency's analysts predict that "broad revenue
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late senator and the current health secretary, has announced that he will be halting government funding for mRNA vaccines, a type of vaccine that uses messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct cells to produce a specific protein. This decision has raised eyebrows, given
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A 50 per cent levy on semi-finished copper imports, announced by the US government, aims to develop a domestic industry and reduce America's dependence on China for critical minerals. However, mining executives and analysts question whether copper tariffs are enough to incentivize new smelters in the US, citing
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European leaders, including President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, will accompany President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to the White House for a meeting with President Trump, marking a united front against Russia. The European leaders aim to show solidarity with Ukraine and avoid being
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As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine prepares to meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office, an array of European prime ministers and presidents are flying in to ensure a viable and defensible Ukraine survives the ongoing crisis. Their primary concern is to safeguard against the risk of the
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Canadian leaders have often viewed trade relationships as akin to family ties or friendships, but the truth is that countries we trade with are simply jurisdictions that do business with us. This wide-eyed view has led to complacency and deepened the economic consequences when trade relationships evolve or break apart.
Crime prevention
The Trump administration's policies and actions have significantly impacted Washington's efforts to reduce crime, with city officials accusing the administration of making the problem worse. Despite Mr. Trump's claims that Washington is a "dystopian hellscape," most categories of violent crime peaked in
