Trump gets a 51st state
Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians was his threat to make Canada the 51st state. No…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians was his threat to make Canada the 51st state. No…
What, the curious are asking, is Trump up to with Venezuela. He has positioned an armada of warships in the Caribbean Sea, including an aircraft…
The recent proposal for a peace deal worked out between the U.S. and Russia has attracted a range of reactions. Putin was quite pleased with…
Good things are happening at this year’s UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. These annual conferences, named for the number of years the meeting…
It’s more than a bit late, but as they say, better late … Canada, along with Great Britain and Australia are officially recognizing a Palestinian…
That a South American country’s democracy might be healthier than that of the United States is a notion that would have been unthinkable only a…
We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planer that is. To live is to burn fuel and human beings are burning…
The little island nation of Tuvalu, population 11,342, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has a problem. It’s disappearing into the sea. Climate change…
The recent altercation between Israel and Iran culminating in the U.S bunker-bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities prompts a number of questions. Is Iran’s nuclear program…
The U.S., under new management, has taken a remarkable U-turn. Long recognized as the “leader of the free world,” it now seems to have switched…
Lord Peter Mandelson has not always been a fan of Donald Trump. The long-time member of the British Labour Party and former cabinet minister, has…
In these days of increasing international tensions, we hear incessantly about the magic two percent. Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have agreed…