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Donald Trump
United States President Trump’s hyperactive foreign policy record is clearly driven by his obsessive pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok

Trump’s many ‘peace’ deals turn sour

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • The U.S. president has tried to end warring in Gaza, the Congo, and along the Cambodian-Thailand border. He’s also tried to take credit for ending other conflicts, but those claims don’t hold water.
Donald Trump

Trump’s many ‘peace’ deals turn sour

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • The U.S. president has tried to end warring in Gaza, the Congo, and along the Cambodian-Thailand border. He’s also tried to take credit for ending other conflicts, but those claims don’t hold water.
Mark Carney, left, Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and White House photograph by Daniel Torok

Canada’s China reset just got much harder

OpinionBY VINA NADJIBULLA

Czech Republic marks national day with song

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA
Opinion

Steel tariff missteps threaten Canada’s energy future

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Trumpworld is going to be a place in which the great powers do what they want, limited only by the strength of other great powers, while the lesser countries do what they are told, writes Gwynne Dyer. White House photograph by Daniel Torok

Venezuela strikes are nothing but performative murder

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • We are all back in the 19th century when the Western Hemisphere was the exclusive domain of the U.S.

Venezuela strikes are nothing but performative murder

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • We are all back in the 19th century when the Western Hemisphere was the exclusive domain of the U.S.

Minister called to de-haze budget math on cuts to veterans’ medical cannabis reimbursement

NewsBY STUART BENSON
Carlos Leitao
Parliamentary Calendar

Parl Sec Carlos Leitão talks globalization under pressure in Montreal on Dec. 11

Donald Trump
A sustained posture of political appeasement or passivity would be a strategic error for Canada since U.S. President Donald Trump will not value its democratic stability or shared security commitments, writes Ann Fitz-Gerald. White House photograph by Daniel Torok

The new U.S. National Security Strategy poses hard questions for Canada

OpinionBY ANN FITZ-GERALD
  • Canada should regard the new strategy as a strategic warning, and move quickly to build its own integrated policy frameworks that protect sovereignty, reinforce national security, and set the terms of our bilateral engagement.
Donald Trump

The new U.S. National Security Strategy poses hard questions for Canada

OpinionBY ANN FITZ-GERALD
  • Canada should regard the new strategy as a strategic warning, and move quickly to build its own integrated policy frameworks that protect sovereignty, reinforce national security, and set the terms of our bilateral engagement.

Between a rock and a hard place

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR

Between a rock and a hard place

OpinionBY SCOTT TAYLOR
Prime Minister Mark Carney, second right, and U.S. President Donald Trump, right, in the White House's Oval Office on Oct. 7, 2025. Maybe Carney is playing a long game, concentrating on getting past the curse of Trump on the world before making any giant moves. Maybe, writes Douglas Roche. Photograph courtesy of the White House

I’m still trying to figure out who Carney really is

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE
  • Underneath the welter of new alliances Mark Carney is forming to save Canada economically and recover some of our strength internationally, I sense that he's holding back from boldly advancing UN principles and international law. 

I’m still trying to figure out who Carney really is

OpinionBY DOUGLAS ROCHE
  • Underneath the welter of new alliances Mark Carney is forming to save Canada economically and recover some of our strength internationally, I sense that he's holding back from boldly advancing UN principles and international law. 
A constituent of Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she was told by the cabinet member that she wouldn't speak about matters under her ministerial responsibility while in Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Constituent seeking help for brother and others fleeing Sudan civil war says immigration minister ‘angry, rude, and dismissive’ in phone call

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • A Halifax constituent and an advocate for Sudanese applicants are both calling for Immigration Minister Lena Diab to be shuffled out of her role as the federal program for Sudanese resettlement is marked by increasing delays.

Constituent seeking help for brother and others fleeing Sudan civil war says immigration minister ‘angry, rude, and dismissive’ in phone call

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • A Halifax constituent and an advocate for Sudanese applicants are both calling for Immigration Minister Lena Diab to be shuffled out of her role as the federal program for Sudanese resettlement is marked by increasing delays.

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