China has played Canada in impressive fashion over the last six months and the meat ban is a masterful stroke
Canada is losing the food safety optics game against China. While Canada has demonstrated many times that its food safety record is outstanding – in fact, one of the best in the world – none of it matters now. Since Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018 on…
Canada's diplomatic juveniles have jeopardized the Canadian target of $75 billion in agriculture and food exports by 2025
Two recent cases make Canada’s political elite look like diplomatic juveniles. The SNC-Lavalin debacle refuses to go away, garnering global media attention for weeks. The Meng Wanzhou case in Vancouver has made things much worse. The arrest of Meng – a Huawei vice-president and daughter of the company’s CEO – in December exposed Canada to…
Apparently it’s wrong for Russia to interfere in U.S. or Canadian elections, but okay for the U.S. and Canada to pick Venezuela’s leader
Last spring, much of the opposition in Venezuela boycotted a presidential election, which they lost. Canadian monitors of the election reported that they “witnessed a transparent, secure, democratic and orderly electoral and voting process” and “felt confident that the result of the elections represents the will of the majority of Venezuelans who voted.” Prime Minister…
Many thought his staunch nationalism would kill the economy and spark international conflict. They were wrong
“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently told the United Nations. His overstatement inspired some chuckles, to which he quipped, “So true. … Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay,” he smiled as the laughter grew, overtaken…
The international media is so blind in its disdain for Trump that they are whitewashing the crimes of one of the world’s most repressive regimes
The government of Kim Jong-un is one of the world’s most repressive, holding North Korea’s 25 million people in a virtual slave state. A third or more of North Koreans suffer from malnutrition. The regime’s penal camps are among the harshest on Earth, with a reported 20 per cent of inmates dying within 12 months…
Staring down Donald Trump, and then addressing the American people directly about the need to combat global warming, shows a man willing to lead and inspire
With what should have been a simple and forgettable handshake, newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron showed his intention to be a thorn in the side of U.S. President Donald Trump. Meeting for the first time at the recent NATO summit in Brussels, Macron and Trump shook hands. Then, to the apparent consternation of Trump, Macron…Canada can no longer sit passively by while the world decides when and how it will exploit what Canada has long claimed as its territory
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When the wind blows south, a big wall along the border is just going to trap all the plastic bags and soda cups right up against it
Infamous phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull will become the stuff of legend