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2 weeks ago | 
readtheorchard.org | Jeremy Appel |Arshy Mann |Jordan Cornish
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1 month ago | 
readthemaple.com | Adam King |Jeremy Appel |Nora Loreto
On March 10, Mark Carney became the new leader of the Liberal Party, and four days later, the sitting prime minister until the upcoming election on April 28. Carney received nearly 86 per cent of leadership votes, trouncing runner-up Chrystia Freeland, who secured just 8 per cent. In every riding association across the country, Liberal members broke decidedly for the former central banker.
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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Jeffrey St. Clair |Jeremy Appel
On the night of March 8, Mahmoud Khalil and his wife Noor Abdalla were walking back to their apartment on the campus of Columbia University, after eating their Iftar meal, when they were approached by ICE agents, who had followed the couple into their. The lead agent, Elvin Hernandez, asked Mahmoud if he was, “Mahmoud […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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2 months ago | 
readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Peter McFarlane |Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is signalling what Canadians can expect if his party forms government later this year. “We need a massive patriotic tax cut,” he said last month. “We […] need fewer bureaucrats,” he said a few days before. "We’re going to cut bureaucracy, cut the consultants, cut foreign aid, cut back on corporate welfare to large corporations,” he told Jordan Peterson before that. While those comments were short on specifics, the top-line agenda is clear: cut, cut, cut.
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2 months ago | 
counterpunch.org | Jeremy Appel |Jeffrey St. Clair
During Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Canada in September 2023, Speaker of the House Anthony Rota introduced his nonagenarian constituent Yaroslav Hunka, whose “fighting for Ukraine independence against the Russians” during the Second World War Rota praised. After Rota called him “a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero” Canadian parliamentarians from all parties raised […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
readthemaple.com | Peter McFarlane |Emma Paling |Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel
Few wars have been more often and more accurately predicted than the current Russia-Ukraine war. From the 1990s on, American and European diplomats and scholars warned that expanding NATO into Ukraine was the “brightest of all red lines” for Moscow — under any Russian leader.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel |Alex Cosh
Canadians have been clear: they don’t want their country to be absorbed by the United States. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CNN last week, one of the main things Canadians are proud of is not being American. Other points of pride — and difference — include our public programs, specifically universal health care, which Canadians consistently tell pollsters they feel pride in.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
readtheorchard.org | Jeremy Appel
In December 2012, Conservative citizenship and immigration minister Jason Kenney, who spent the previous several years ranting and raving about “bogus refugees” and “false [asylum] claimants” who were cheating the system, announced plans to fast-track asylum claims from countries he deemed “safe.” Starting that month, refugee claimants from 27 countries classified as designated safe countries of origin—all European Union states and the U.S.—would have one opportunity to make their case for...
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
open.substack.com | Jeremy Appel
In December 2012, Conservative citizenship and immigration minister Jason Kenney, who spent the previous several years ranting and raving about “bogus refugees” and “false [asylum] claimants” who were cheating the system, announced plans to fast-track asylum claims from countries he deemed “safe.” Starting that month, refugee claimants from 27 countries classified as designated safe countries of origin—all European Union states and the U.S.—would have one opportunity to make their case for...
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
readthemaple.com | Christy Somos |Jeremy Appel |Alex Cosh
Disclaimer: The author of this article, Christy Somos, worked at CTVNews.ca as a digital journalist and CTV National News as associate producer from 2019 until 2023, when she resigned. Donald Trump is about to become president of the United States for a second term, a development that has governments around the world re-evaluating how they will interact with the U.S. across all sectors — from foreign policy and trade deals, to intelligence.
