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Canada has signed a wide-ranging defence pact with the EU, as Donald Trump and global instability prompt traditional US allies to deepen their alliances. Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, on Monday joined European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and head of the European Council, António Costa, in Brussels, where they signed a security and […]
At Home filed for bankruptcy on Monday and said tariffs played a central role in its financial struggles. The chain of 260 stores sells home goods and has been struggling to manage its debt load for several years as the housing market slowed down and inflation-wary customers pulled back on spending. This year, tariffs proved […]
Toronto AP — Canada will meet NATO’s military spending guideline by early next year and diversify defense spending away from the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday, asserting that Washington no longer plays a predominant role on the world stage. The announcement means Canada will achieve NATO’s spending target of 2% of gross […]
Joachim Streit has never stepped foot in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped the German politician from launching a tenacious, one-man campaign that he readily describes as “aspirational”: to have the North American country join the EU. “We have to strengthen the European Union,” said Streit, who last year was elected as a member of the […]
A water bomber aircraft battles a wildfire in southeast Manitoba as shown in this handout photo provided by the Manitoba government on Tuesday. Manitoba government/via The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Manitoba government/via The Canadian Press via AP FLIN FLON, Manitoba — More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated […]
I remember the line. It ran diagonal to the grain of the library’s hardwood floor. It escapes me whether the line was black paint or black electrical tape back in the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s tape today—scuffed and trodden upon, as though it were just some line to be stepped on that didn’t matter […]
When Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, met with Donald Trump at the White House this week, the notoriously over-prepared former central banker was no doubt expecting to discuss tariffs, trade and defence policy. But as he sat beside the president, he was instead treated to a discourse on one of Trump’s more recondite fixations: the […]
CNN — Canadians hit the polls on Monday in an election overshadowed by tariffs, economic uncertainty and annexation threats from the United States. Voters will decide whether to grant interim Prime Minister Mark Carney a full four-year mandate or give the Conservative Party a turn at the wheel after more than nine years of Liberal […]
There is only one building in North America, probably in the world, where one can browse bestsellers and children’s books by crossing an international border and then sit for an amateur theatre troupe in a regal opera house with each half of your body in two different countries. Standing near the Tomifobia River, a rushing […]
By Special To The Black Star News Photos: YouTube Screenshots The United States and Canada have turned women’s soccer into a cross-border cage match that’s been raging since 1986, when the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) was in its toddler years and Canada’s program was just getting its skates on. By April 2025, they’ve clashed […]