Has NATO outlived its purpose?
As the NATO summit wraps up in Washington, D.C., this week, Canada has finally committed to spending two per cent of its GDP on defense, as required by the treaty. But NATO is an alliance forged in a ...
12 Jul 202426min
Preparing for ‘war’: the Alberta blockade trial so far
In 2022, a convoy of truckers angry with COVID-19 measures staged an 18-day blockade, shutting down a busy border crossing with the U.S. in Coutts, Alberta. It ended with the RCMP arresting 13 protest...
11 Jul 202421min
Grappling with Alice Munro’s dark family secret
The late Canadian author Alice Munro remains one of the best-known fiction writers in the English language. She won a Nobel prize for her work, and was celebrated for her intimate portrayals of the li...
10 Jul 202426min
Canada vs. Messi, Argentina
The Canadian men's soccer team is set to take on Lionel Messi and Argentina, the current holders of the World Cup and No.1 ranked team in the world, in the semi finals of the Copa America soccer tourn...
9 Jul 202422min
Where does Joe Biden go from here?
On Friday, in an exclusive interview with ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos, U.S. president Joe Biden insisted that only the “Lord Almighty” could get him to quit. But as calls for him to step dow...
8 Jul 202427min
President as ‘king’, and other giant Supreme Court cases
The U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling grants presidents the ability to break the law without fear of criminal prosecution as long as it counts as an “official” act. It’s the latest in a string of wid...
5 Jul 202428min
Why is France’s far right surging toward power?
After his centrist coalition suffered a humiliating loss to the far right in European elections early last month, French President Emanuelle Macron called snap elections for France’s own Parliament in...
4 Jul 202422min
A massive collapse and the troubling history of Yukon mining
A landslide caused by a heap leach failure at the Eagle mine site in the Yukon has been called a “disaster” by some local residents.Hundreds of workers are currently laid-off and there’s a chance that...
3 Jul 202424min
