Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed former federal cabinet minister and Toronto Member of Parliament Chrystia Freeland as an adviser on Ukraine’s economic development. Read More

The Islamic regime will get “hit very hard” if it starts killing protesters, U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Sunday, upping his rhetoric as demonstrations continued for the eighth day. Read More

President Donald Trump's claim that the United States is "in charge" of Venezuela will be underscored Monday when the oil-rich nation's deposed leader is hauled before a New York court, while his successor offers to cooperate. Read More

The ousting of Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's president puts to the test his "Chavista" factions that have governed the oil-rich nation for 27 years. Read More

In North America, centre-right parties typically reliably win the votes of older people. The Conservative Party of Canada, however, is an exception. Figuring out how to win back support among seniors is a new challenge facing the party. Read More

Is antisemitism a trivial problem in Canada? Are the protests that many Jews decry as antisemitic really just anti-Zionist? Are nearly half of Canada’s Jews non-Zionists? According to Avi Lewis, who’s running for the leadership of the NDP, and Corey Balsam, national co-ordinator of Independent Jewish Voices, an anti-Zionist group, the answer to all these questions is “yes.” They are wrong. Read More

When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits’ views on the floor crossing were all over the place. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2020, then U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer described the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free-trade agreement (CUSMA) as the “new gold standard against which all future trade agreements will be judged," after the deal he helped put together was passed in the Senate. Six years later, in 2026, CUSMA will be facing scrutiny on its real-world results as the three countries begin renegotiating its terms. Read More

Denmark called on the United States to stop "threatening" Greenland Sunday, as President Donald Trump told U.S. media he "absolutely" needed the territory, a day after Washington seized the leader of Venezuela. Read More

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will use leverage over oil to force further change in Venezuela as he seizes a long-awaited chance to try to shape Latin America in Washington’s favor. Read More

Britain and France on Sunday said they had carried out joint strikes on the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria to prevent the Islamist extremists from resurging. Read More

Authorities investigating a New Year's blaze at a bar in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana have identified 24 of the 40 people killed, including 11 minors and six foreign nationals, police said Sunday, as its owners were probed for negligent manslaughter. Read More

Venezuelans around the U.S. celebrated the downfall of Nicolás Maduro, expressing hope for the future of their country even as uncertainty swirls after the longtime leader’s forced removal and arrest by U.S. forces. Read More

With his removal of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, Donald Trump has opened another front in his economic assault on Canada by indirectly targeting our oil industry. Canada must respond decisively with diversification to the world market via the rapid construction of at least another pipeline to the coast, and ideally more. Read More

New deadly clashes between protesters and security forces erupted in Iran over the weekend, rights groups and local media said Sunday, as demonstrations first sparked by anger over the rising cost of living entered a second week. Read More

President Donald Trump has been “unequivocal,” both in private and in public, that Hamas needs to disarm as a condition for his 20-point peace plan to proceed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Read More

Denmark on Sunday made its displeasure known after the wife of President Donald Trump's most influential aide posted a social media picture of Greenland painted in the colours of the U.S. flag. Read More

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will work with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to transition to a democratically elected government after Nicolás Maduro’s capture early Saturday, but she and other regime leaders have thus far appeared uncooperative. Read More

With a major attack to arrest Venezuela's leader, President Donald Trump is showing that the United States will impose its will in its neighbourhood — and the lesson may not be lost on Russia and China. Read More

The United States has a really bad record when it comes to regime change. Read More

Could it be just a year ago that Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as prime minister? Read More

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The capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicholás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores by U.S. forces is cause for global celebration, though caution is warranted so long as the Maduro regime’s remaining leadership clings to power. Read More

U.S. negotiators will join European leaders in Paris on Tuesday in the latest effort to hash out post-war security guarantees for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Read More