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Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday he was ending the consumer carbon price, touting the move as helping “hard-pressed Canadians.” While that fulfilled growing calls from premiers across the country — both progressive and conservative — some economists say Canadians will notice a difference both in some costs and also in the lack of rebates.The carbon price was geared towards putting a price on pollution to get people to use fewer fossil fuels, but it has faced criticisms for years and seen pushback at both the provincial and federal levels.The federal government tried to offset its carbon pricing plan with…

THE SCAM SYNDICATE CRISIS Certainly, thousands have been lured to scam centres clustered around Thailand’s borders like barnacles around the hull of a ship.  They are usually hard-up, unemployed youth from places like India, Pakistan, China, Myanmar, the Philippines, and even as far as Ethiopia and Somalia. Lured by promises of a job, they often arrive in Thailand first but then are taken to a scam centre where their passports are confiscated. Stripped of their freedom, they become today’s equivalent of drug mules trapped in an illicit economy worth billions of dollars, run by wealthy and powerful individuals, most of…

In his first overseas trip as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney went on a whirlwind tour of France and Britain on Monday to showcase Canada’s deep European bonds as President Trump threatens his country’s economy and sovereignty.Just three days after being sworn into office, Mr. Carney had lunch with President Emmanuel Macron of France in Paris, before heading to London, where he had an audience with King Charles III, Canada’s sovereign, and also met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain.“I want to ensure that France and the whole of Europe works enthusiastically with Canada, the most European of non-European…

President Trump announced that tens of thousands of pages of the JFK assassination files would be released to the public Tuesday.”People have been waiting decades for this,” the president said of the release of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Trump, who was speaking at the Kennedy Center Monday, added that he didn’t believe the material, “approximately 80,000 pages,” would be redacted.”I said during the campaign that I’d do it, and I’m a man of my word,” the president said of the impending release.Last month, the FBI said it had discovered roughly 2,400 records related to…

The death of a water polo coach murdered by her boyfriend inside an elite Sydney school will be probed at an inquest on Tuesday.

Since 2019, Hilary Perkins had proudly served as a career lawyer for the government. She took seriously a basic tenet of the job, which is to argue the position of the administration, no matter the political stripes of the boss you serve. A Christian conservative hired under President Trump, she went on to defend the availability of the abortion pill under President Biden.But last week, three days after becoming chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration, Ms. Perkins abruptly resigned, forced out by a pressure campaign instigated by Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri. “It turns out this Biden…

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has made it official: a future Conservative government would eliminate Canada’s carbon pricing system entirely, including for large industrial emitters. The question now is what, if anything, a Conservative government would do to address the existential threat of climate change in Canada. Poilievre’s approach would be to let provinces and territories decide their own policies, rather than the federal government leading.Poilievre told reporters Monday that the carbon price was a “bad idea” even before U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade war against Canada and suggested Prime Minister Mark Carney would re-impose the consumer price should…

Trump earlier this month raised a 10 percent blanket tariff he previously imposed on Chinese products to 20 percent. Beijing responded with levies of up to 15 percent on a range of US agricultural goods including soybeans, pork and chicken. China, the world’s top steel producer, has also vowed to take “all necessary measures” in response to separate new US tariffs on steel and aluminum. Xi last visited the United States in Nov 2023, when he met with Republican Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden in California in a bid to ease growing tensions between the two superpowers.

The Israeli army said it had targeted military sites in southern Syria that posed a ‘threat to the State of Israel’.At least two people were killed and 19 others wounded after an Israeli air strike on the outskirts of the southern Syrian province of Deraa, the Syrian state news agency, SANA, has reported. The Israeli military confirmed the strikes Monday night and said it was targeting military sites that contained weapons and vehicles that belonged to the forces of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli army “is currently striking military targets in southern Syria, including command centres and military…

To hear President Trump describe it, he and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are about to have something akin to their own Yalta moment, great powers determining borders within Europe.He didn’t explicitly refer to the 1945 meeting, where Churchill, Stalin and a deathly ill Franklin D. Roosevelt carved the continent into the American-aligned West and the Soviet-dominated East, creating spheres of influence that became the battlegrounds of the Cold War.But talking to reporters on Air Force One while returning from Florida on Sunday night, Mr. Trump made clear that his scheduled phone conversation with Mr. Putin on Tuesday would…