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Adam Zivo: Forget ‘international law,’ Maduro’s arrest was the moral thing to do

Although Latin Americans are widely celebrating the United States’ abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, some voices, predominantly western progressives, have condemned the operation as destabilizing, illegal and immoral. Don’t listen to them: their arguments are specious and rife with contradictions.   Read More
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‘Can’t beat the weather’: Canada’s snowbirds still flocking to the U.S., but some are going ‘quietly’

Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn't see themselves as tourists anymore. "We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our best to blend in," Leslie said from their long-term winter rental where the weather reached 21 degrees Celsius this week under "Windex-blue" skies. Read More
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Chris Selley: Canada’s impotence on Venezuela doesn’t mean we’re impotent everywhere

It is unfortunate that Chrystia Freeland decided to accept an economic-development position from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a quintessentially flaky Trudeauvian flourish: Instead of resigning her seat in the House of Commons immediately after taking on a role in a foreign government, as anyone halfway sane would have advised her to, she first said nothing about it, and then 12 hours later said she would step down “in the coming weeks.” So the MP for University—Rosedale is now at least nominally in a position of stewardship over the economic redevelopment of a war-ravaged country halfway around the world with roughly the same population as Canada’s. Read More
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