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Khamenei says Iran won’t ‘back down’ amid mass protests and Trump threat

President Donald Trump warned Iran that “you better not start shooting” at mass protests spreading across the country, “because we’ll start shooting, too.” There would be no U.S. “boots on the ground,” Trump said Friday, but “if they start killing people like they have in the past, we’ll be hitting them very hard where it hurts.” Read More
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Comfort TV shows for the dead of Canadian winter

Sometimes you want television that challenges you. Something that’s genre bending, envelope pushing, plot twisting. Something that’s the screen equivalent of an exercise routine. But other times, you want a show that carries adjectives you’d use for a sweater — cosy, comforting, familiar. Something built around a good yarn. Read More
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Chris Selley: Queen’s Park flirts with maximum ‘Buy Canadian’ incoherence

Sometimes I wonder if Doug Ford and his quite accomplished team of political advisers are on a mission to discover the extent to which Ontarians will tolerate their province being run purely according to the inscrutable whims of their premier. Last week was one of those times. As is often the case with Ford — who doesn't drink — alcohol was involved. Read More
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Conrad Black: What Carney should have said about Venezuela

The enfeebling ambiguity of Canada as a government and a state among the nations of the world is underlined almost every week. The prime minister's statement on the removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was commendably critical of the former president and skirted international law questions in a way that permits Carney to claim to recognize them without aggravating our relations with the Trump administration with whom delicate trade negotiations are underway. All the while, agitation continues in Parliament for the criminalization of those who would justify the native residential school system or minimize the negative consequences of it. Read More
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