U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra's speech at a Fourth of July party in Ottawa included a political nudge aimed at Canada, with American F-35 fighter jets flying over the crowd and a comment abo...

The UCP refuses to tally risks to nature and people. This expert did it for them.

The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Diocese officials in south Texas say a nun walking to church dressed in her habit was detained by ICE officers and later released after members of Congress intervened.

Move follows supreme court refusal to hear Trump’s appeal of civil case verdict in sexual abuse and defamation case The New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she publicly described in 2019 being attacked by him in a city department store. Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in a federal court in Manhattan one day after the US supreme court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the civil case verdict in 2023. Continue reading...

Elizabeth Warren and colleagues demanded tighter rules on political figures’ crypto dealings, citing disclosures of large-scale Trump family profits * US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has again been accused of “brazen crypto corruption” after financial disclosures revealed his family’s cryptocurrency ventures generated more than $1bn in his first year back in the White House. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee, said the figures showed why US Congress needed to act. “The crypto legislation heading to the Senate floor must prevent the President, Vice President, senior administration officials, members of Congress, and their families from profiting off the crypto industry,” she said. “If it does not, it will only turbocharge Donald Trump’s brazen crypto corruption.” Continue reading...

A report from the Alberta Medical Association has found gaps in supports for kids with mental health and developmental conditions.

Based on groundless fraud fears, it will create headaches for seniors and families.

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European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life Temperatures on the ocean surface have hit a record high, raising fears of another burst of extreme heat this summer. On 21 June, temperatures outside the polar regions exceeded the extraordinary highs observed at the same time in 2023 and 2024, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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Is Alberta's pipeline fight actually a fight over the future of Canada? The stakes just got a lot higher than energy policy.

Former NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the federal government to review the appointment of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to the advisory board of a Vancouver mining company, arguing ...

The Trump v Slaughter decision allows the president further influence over agencies Congress itself created

IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’

A dark constellation is forming in our political sky, and it needs to be called out.

Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion

The controversial Alberta businessman denies allegations he strong-armed a firm building publicly funded treatment centres.

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Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

Canada’s Texas is threatening divorce, and it could eventually become the 51st state, with serious impacts on how much Americans pay for gasoline. The idea of energy giant province Alberta leaving Can...

Late singer ‘absolutely not high’ when she fell on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009, says estate after Winfrey claimed she had relapsed Whitney Houston’s estate has refuted what they call “inaccurate and unfair” claims by Oprah Winfrey that the singer was drug affected when she fell off the stage during an appearance on her talkshow. Speaking on Tuesday at the Cannes Lions conference in France, Winfrey claimed Houston was “back on drugs” during her two-part appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009, during which she spoke about being clean after years of substance abuse and two spells in rehab. Continue reading...