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Pakistani cop ordered deported from Canada for contributing to ‘crimes against humanity’ wins another shot at refugee status

22 janvier 2026 à 13:00
A Federal Court judge has given a former head constable with Pakistan's Punjab Police Service (PPS), who was ordered deported from Canada for making ‘a voluntary, significant and knowing contribution to the crimes against humanity’ committed by the notorious force, another chance to stay in Canada. Read More

John Herdman led Canada to a long-awaited World Cup. Can he do the same with Indonesia?

22 janvier 2026 à 12:00

The South Asian nation is among the world’s most populous and is mad for football, but qualifying for the World Cup is a big ask

There’s a simple change of scenery, and then there’s John Herdman’s latest coaching move.

The 50-year-old has taken quite a jump from Canada, a huge country where soccer is not the biggest sport, to Indonesia, a huge country where it definitely is. If he can repeat his 2022 heroics for 2030, he will be a hero to a nation of 280 million people who are just desperate to return to the global stage. Canada had a gap of 36 years between their first and second World Cup appearances. If the new coach in Jakarta is successful next time, then what will be a 92-year wait would come to an end.

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© Photograph: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

© Photograph: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

Terry Newman: UBC profs push back against campus wokeism with ‘dangerous ideas’ course

22 janvier 2026 à 12:00
A new course you probably wouldn't expect to exist at a Canadian university just wrapped up. "Dangerous ideas" invited students to tackle difficult and polarizing topics by debating both sides, and the students loved it — suggesting that they would rather examine and discuss ideas than be told that they're off-limits. Could this be the beginning of the end of wokeism in Canadian universities? Read More

Does the temperature affect the sound of snow underfoot?

22 janvier 2026 à 07:00

Canadians believe they can tell the temperature by the sound of the snow – and there’s science to back this up

Canadians like to claim that they can tell the temperature outside by the sound the snow makes underfoot.

The topic has not been well studied, but researchers from the University of Wisconsin suggest that, at temperatures above -10C, the pressure of a foot causes a thin layer of snow to melt, producing a crunching sound as it compresses. Closer to zero, the sliding of grains becomes a squelch as the snow approaches the condition of slush, but as the temperature approaches -10C the snow becomes progressively crunchier.

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Europe must heed Mark Carney – and embrace a painful emancipation from the US | Paul Taylor

22 janvier 2026 à 06:00

Trump’s tariff retreat should lull nobody into dropping their guard. The EU must join forces with Canada, Japan and other like-minded countries

EU leaders would do well to meditate on the seminal lesson that the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, delivered at this year’s World Economic Forum.

In an incisive analysis of the new age of predatory great powers, where might is increasingly asserted as right, Carney not only accurately defined the coarsening of international relations as “a rupture, not a transition”. He also outlined how liberal democratic “middle powers” such as Canada – but also European countries – must build coalitions to counter coercion and defend as much as possible of the principles of territorial integrity, the rule of law, free trade, climate action and human rights. He spelled out a hedging strategy that Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made automobiles.

Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre

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© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

Trump’s Davos speech, explained: From who calls him ‘Daddy’ to why ‘Iceland’ came up

22 janvier 2026 à 01:40
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a speech heavily aimed at a domestic audience and focused on America's economy, but which also made crucial reference to the many geopolitical storms that involve America today, from Greenland and Gaza to Venezuela and Ukraine. He said America is owed legal title to Greenland, though said he would not take it by force. He referred to the Russian president as "Vladimir," the French president as "Emmanuel," the former president of the Swiss Confederation as "a woman," and the NATO secretary-general as "Mark," and fondly remembered the time Mark Rutte called him "Daddy." He called Greenland "Iceland" a few times. It all stood in contrast to the speech on Tuesday by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney — whom Trump also called "Mark," but in a less conciliatory manner — which quoted both the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides ("the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must") and the modern corporate aphorism that "if you are not at the table, you are on the menu," and was over in about 15 minutes with a standing ovation. Trump's was well over an hour. The National Post annotates some of the key portions of Trump's speech. Read More

‘You have to be very, very strong’: Freed October 7 hostage describes 491 days in captivity in new memoir

22 janvier 2026 à 00:13
After seeing phone messages and videos that kibbutzim were being ravaged on October 7, Eli Sharabi thought surrendering himself to Hamas terrorists would save his British-born wife and two daughters. Instead, he spent 491 days as a hostage in Gaza and, upon his release in February 2025, learned they had been murdered minutes after he was dragged from their Kibbutz Be’eri home. Read More

The Guardian view on Keir Starmer and Donald Trump: quiet diplomacy has reached its limit | Editorial

21 janvier 2026 à 19:39

The prime minister has a duty to be candid with the British public about the scale of the global realignment caused by a volatile US president

One foreign policy achievement that Donald Trump prefers not to boast about is his role in helping Mark Carney win last year’s Canadian general election. The incumbent Liberal party faced crushing defeat before Mr Trump threatened to annex Canada. Mr Carney’s candidacy was buoyed up by a patriotic rally against US bullying.

Perhaps because his country has also been coveted by Mr Trump, Mr Carney has given one of the most clear-sighted responses of any democratic leader to the US president’s designs on Greenland. Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the Canadian prime minister set out the challenge for countries whose security and prosperity have depended on a global system underwritten by the US.

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© Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

© Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances

21 janvier 2026 à 18:09

As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide ‘to live in truth’, what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump?

Donald Trump has told the Davos economic forum “without us, most countries would not even work”, but for the first time in decades, many western leaders have come to the opposite conclusion: they will function better without the US.

Individually and collectively, they have decided “to live in truth” – the phrase used by the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and referenced by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, in his widely praised speech at Davos on Tuesday. They will no longer pretend the US is a reliable ally, or even that the old western alliance exists.

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© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

Annexer le Groenland pour se protéger ? Pourquoi l’argument sécuritaire de Trump ne tient pas

Tous les regards sont tournés vers le Groenland… Eh oui, les États-Unis y ont installé un radar d'alerte précoce. Et dans bien d'autres endroits aussi. Futura fait le point sur ce système qui permet aux États-Unis de détecter une attaque de missiles. Il viendrait s’intégrer au dôme d’or voulu...

‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney

21 janvier 2026 à 15:24

In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here

Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics – where the large, main power, geopolitics – is submitted to no limits, no constraints.

On the other hand, I would like to tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states.

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© Composite: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Alamy Stock

© Composite: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Alamy Stock

Annexer le Groenland pour se protéger ? Pourquoi l’argument sécuritaire de Trump ne tient pas

Tous les regards sont tournés vers le Groenland… Eh oui, les États-Unis y ont installé un radar d'alerte précoce. Et dans bien d'autres endroits aussi. Futura fait le point sur ce système qui permet aux États-Unis de détecter une attaque de missiles. Il viendrait s’intégrer au dôme d’or voulu...

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