Watching Canada’s behaviour to China over the past several months has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion, and one could not be blamed for coming to the conclusion that this display of consistent diplomatic incompetence on the part of Canadian policy makers was intentional. Believe it or not, but efforts were being…
Trump might be preparing for a summertime showdown with Trudeau if the reports are correct that he’s seriously considering ordering the US Navy to sail through the Northwest Passage that Canada claims as its internal waters, though this would be less of a negative signal to Russia and China than a positive one to his…
Whether the Arctic will become a platform for cooperation or warfare has been a question often posed throughout the past 150 years. As early as 1875, a vision for Eurasian-American cooperation was becoming realized as leading Americans and Russians alike foresaw the construction of telegraph and even rail lines across the 100 km Bering Strait…
Canada’s Liberal government is front and center in Washington’s drive to overthrow Venezuela’s elected president, Nicolas Maduro, and install a virulent right-wing regime that will throw open the country—site of the world’s largest oil reserves—to unbridled imperialist exploitation. Earlier this week, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland hosted a meeting in Ottawa of members of the…
18-year-old Saudi citizen Rahaf al-Qunun ran away from her family during a vacation in Kuwait after boarding a flight to Thailand where she planned to transit en route to Australia after asking for asylum. She claimed that her family physically and mentally abused her and that she’d face certain death if she returned home after…
Bending to the will of Washington, Canadian PM Trudeau is on a collision course with Beijing following the arrest of a senior Huawei executive in December. What sort of madness motivated Trudeau to make such a decision? Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 47, is famous for his good looks and quick smile, but unfortunately being…
