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Employers begin layoffs as Canada-U.S. trade war intensifies
Over the past three weeks, numerous businesses from furniture manufacturers to steel producers have announced layoffs to cope…
March 13, 2025
Rearming Europe is the EU’s ‘next folly’, says Yanis Varoufakis
The left-wing economist believes expanding Europe’s military would “dissolve the social fabric” without guaranteeing security. “It’s a way…
March 13, 2025
Sweden’s Northvolt files for bankruptcy in major setback for Europe’s battery industry
The bankruptcy of Northvolt, founded in 2016, is a setback for Europe’s attempts to develop its own technology…
March 13, 2025
Europe’s military heavyweights call for defense industry deregulation
“We are calling for the defense industry to no longer be treated as just another industry,” France’s Sébastien…
March 13, 2025
51st state?: Former senior Canadian intelligence officials warn Trump could wage covert destabilization campaign against the country amid annexation threats
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has worked to destabilize many governments and nations in the past, using…
March 13, 2025
Trump’s FBI moves to criminally charge major climate groups
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at…
March 13, 2025
‘It’s just been chaos’: Steelmakers in Hamilton begin to feel the pain of Trump’s tariffs
According to Mr. Crowder, who works at the company as a pipe welder, 85 to 90 per cent…
March 13, 2025
China now builds more ships than the rest of the world combined and what that means
The striking growth of China’s shipbuilding industry — commercial and military — poses national security concerns for the…
March 12, 2025
Germany ‘buried’ spy report that COVID started in Wuhan lab
Chancellors Merkel and Scholz are said to have kept secret an explosive intelligence assessment of how the pandemic…
March 12, 2025
EU strikes back against US steel and aluminium tariffs with retaliatory package
“We deeply regret this measure. Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business, and even worse for consumers.…
March 12, 2025
China bets on Tazara railway to take on the US in Africa
Tazara project showcases Beijing’s leaner approach to overseas development just as western aid appears to retreat. Whether it…
March 12, 2025
Trump cuts more than a dozen pollution rules in rapid-fire deregulation
The administration was announcing rollbacks and actions in such rapid succession — 31 in around two hours —…
March 12, 2025
Canada hits U.S. with tariffs on $29.8B worth of goods after Trump slaps levy on metals
Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s point person on Canada-U.S. relations, said Trump’s attack on Canadian industry is “unjustified…
March 12, 2025
Portugal faces third election in three years as government loses confidence vote
The government asked for the confidence vote, saying it was needed to “dispel uncertainty” about its own future…
March 11, 2025
Trump’s economic messaging rattling his own advisers
President Trump’s stop-and-start trade policy and uneven economic messaging have rattled some of his own allies, triggering a…
March 11, 2025
Ukraine agrees to proposal for ceasefire with Russia as US restores aid and intel sharing
“Ukraine accepts this proposal, we consider it positive, we are ready to take such a step, and the…
March 11, 2025
Romania: Constitutional court upholds ban on far-right Georgescu’s presidential candidacy
Georgescu, an anti-EU, Moscow-friendly populist, surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s presidential…
March 11, 2025
Nervous Googling: Searches for ‘recession’ and ‘tariff’ surge as U.S. mood sours
An unprecedented number of Americans are now googling the word “tariff,” an issue of minimal interest to them during last…
March 11, 2025
Macron’s defence spending plan drives open political divisions in France
President Macron proposed to raise defence spending from 2 % of the country’s GDP to up to 3.5%,…
March 11, 2025
Hacktivist collective Anonymous claims responsibility for massive cyberattack on X
Anonymous posted this message to claim credit for the cyberattack on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
March 10, 2025