Evan Dyer

1 week ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

The Israeli government's response to last week's unprecedented joint statement by Canada, France and the U.K. could hardly be clearer, says former Canadian ambassador to Israel Jon Allen, now a senior fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School. "It's basically telling the world that we don't really care about what you think at this point in time," he told CBC News.

2 weeks ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

Warning: This story includes an archival image of dead bodies. Canada's relationship with Israel has travelled a long way since 2015, when prime minister Stephen Harper and aspiring rival Justin Trudeau competed to claim the title of best friend of the Jewish state. After winning his majority in 2011, Harper realigned Canada's votes at the United Nations, joining a firmly pro-Israel bloc comprised of the U.S. and a group of Pacific island microstates that normally follow Washington's lead.

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Verity Stevenson |Evan Dyer |Andrew Kurjata |Catharine Tunney

48 minutes agoConservatives drop another candidateVerity StevensonSimon Payette has been dropped as the Conservative Party candidate in the riding of Berthier-Maskinongé, following comments he made about Polytechnique survivor Nathalie Provost. (Radio-Canada)The Conservative Party has dropped a fifth candidate, this time in Quebec. The party ousted Simon Payette, my Radio-Canada colleague Laurence Martin has confirmed.

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

"Nobody knows that Canada is charging our dairy farmers," U.S. President Donald Trump complained Friday in the Oval Office. "They have 270 per cent tariffs. Nobody knows that. Nobody knows it. They have up to 400 per cent. They have a couple of tariffs at 400 per cent. Nobody knows that. Nobody talks about that."In fact some people have talked about it a lot, most prominently Trump himself and his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

2 months ago | cbc.ca | Evan Dyer

Faintly, but not slowly, the outlines of a new world order are coming into view — a world order of large power blocs and with far fewer rules than the one that is now slipping away. It remains unclear where Canada will fit into that new world. But there are hints of what could be the path forward for this country as it grapples with the painful realization that its strongest and closest ally has turned on it, every new day bringing shocking evidence of Washington's embrace of the Kremlin.