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Confusion and backlash as Trump pushes Moscow-influenced deal for Ukraine

The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded not only Ukraine and its allies but even some key U.S. officials. Read More
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Chris Selley: Toronto’s nightmare is apparently neighbourhood shops and cafés

To live in Toronto, to be subjected to its politics, is to watch the perfect lay waste to the good over and over again. So it’s tempting to side with the admirably uncynical activists and advocates who championed what passes for a recent major change in this city: Neighbourhood retail, which is to say retail in neighbourhoods, has been “legalized.” Read More
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Halifax throws its founder under the bus: The fall of Edward Cornwallis

This is from a story about the scalping of British settlers and militia by Mi’kmaq warriors in what became known as the "Dartmouth Massacre" on May 13, 1751, from John Wilson’s eyewitness account: "These Indians chain the unfortunate prisoner to a large thick tree, and bind his hands and his feet, then beginning from the middle of the craneum, they cut quite round towards the neck; this being done, they then tear off the skin, leaving the skull bare; an inflammation quickly follows, the patient fevers, and dies in the most exquisite tortures." Read More
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