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Business Brief: The costs of aging at home
Good morning. Many Canadians want to stay in their homes as they get older, but few are prepared for the financial and emotional costs. As our population ages, The Globe and Mail’s Aging Well series explores the country’s longevity economy.…
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Iran knocks out Elon Musk’s Starlink with ‘kill switch’ as protests rage: Did China or Russia provide the technology?
Iran’s clerical leadership under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has intensified its crackdown as nationwide protests entered their third week, leaving the country cut off from the outside world. With reports suggesting that more than 500 people have been kille…
Opinion | Trumpianism: How The West Morally Hollowed Out The Order It Built
Donald Trump has eviscerated idealism with the wrecking ball of neo-imperialism
The West has always positioned itself as a beacon of progressivism. An enlightened hemisphere standing for a rules-based global order underpinned by democracy, respect for …
Starmer is set to approve China’s ‘super embassy’
Keir Starmer is set to travel to China and has appealed for business leaders to accompany him. You don’t do that if you’re anticipating holding a foreign government to account, says Eliot Wilson
At the end of this month, Sir Keir Starmer is due to trav…
Greenland’s political parties: We don’t want to be Americans
“We don’t want to be Americans,” Greenland’s political parties said after US President Donald Trump again suggested using force to seize the mineral-rich Danish autonomous territory.
The statement late Friday came after Trump repeated that Washington w…
Trump says US will deal with Greenland easy way or hard way
US President Donald Trump on Friday again suggested the use of force to seize Greenland as he brushed aside Denmark’s sovereignty over the autonomous Arctic island.
“We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not,” Trump said at…
Why a ‘Venezuela-Style Snatch’ of Taiwan’s Leaders Could Prove Tricky for China
Hong Kong: Some Chinese online users are calling for a lightning Venezuela-style snatch of Taiwan’s leaders in a prelude to taking over the island, but analysts, scholars and security officials say China’s modernising military is still far …
‘Deeply Troubling, Unacceptable,’ Danish MP Condemns US Threat To Nation
Danish Conservative MP Rasmus Jarlov said that it was deeply troubling for Denmark to be threatened with military forces.
Jarlov, while speaking on Trump’s remarks on Denmark, said that the only threat to the nation is the US.…
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David Knight Legg: The law demanded Nicolás Maduro’s capture
Concerns about adherence to international law are important as a matter of principle. But when the precedent of the 1990 capture of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is understood — and the horrific facts of Maduro’s reign of terror are better known — t…
Why Trump chose Delcy, not Machado
Amid the many questions swirling since last weekend’s dramatic events in Caracas – and there are many – one that refuses to go away centres on the bespectacled woman now leading what US officials are calling Venezuela’s “interim autho…