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Thursday, 19 June 2025

Canadian News

CBC News
NATO head 'fairly confident' Canada will hit new defence spending target

The Canadian Press
Carney to attend NATO, Canada-EU summits in Europe

CBC News
Canada 'must remain vigilant' about Indian foreign interference, CSIS report cautions - More

CBC News
Flourish or flounder: How wildfires affect boreal forest wildlife

CBC News
What farmers' adaptation to climate change means for the future of food

CBC News
Veterans board grants or improves benefits in 9 of 10 cases reviewed

The Canadian Press
Average family to save $280 per year from Liberal tax cut: PBO

CBC News
Toronto's Iranian diaspora watches with worry, mixed feelings

The Canadian Press
Canada's population growth at 0.0% so far this year

The Canadian Press
New EV rebate program in the works, environment minister says

CTV News
Once the tallest structure in the world, Sudbury's Superstack to be dismantled piece by piece

Canadian Commentary

Robyn Urback | The Globe and Mail
The March to Gaza strides face-first into the complicated reality of the Middle East

Tony Keller | The Globe and Mail
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East reveal how unready Canada is

Aaron Wherry | CBC News
In Kananaskis, the G7 held together, but showed signs of strain

Campbell Clark | The Globe and Mail
Some success for Carney, not a win for the G7

Andrew Coyne | The Globe and Mail
The G7 is dead – time to move on to the G6

John Ivison | National Post
Trump came to Alberta to bury the G7, not to praise it

Laurence B. Mussio | The Globe and Mail
At the G7, Canada’s globalist ambitions put our domestic problems in stark contrast

Terry Newman | National Post
The protesters excited for Iran to 'kill' us all

Jesse Kline | National Post
It is disingenuous to claim there is 'no looming nuclear-weapons threat from Iran'

Raymond J. de Souza | National Post
Yes, Trump Always Chickens Out, TACO is accurate

Tasha Kheiriddin | National Post
Carney knows he has to choose Trump over China

International News

Defense One
U.S. Army expects to make more than a million artillery shells next year

The Associated Press
ICE arrests 84 people in raid at Louisiana racetrack

CNN News
Two tall flagpoles installed at the White House - More - More

The New York Times
Trump Says He Hasn’t Made Up His Mind on Iran Strikes

BBC News
Trump's Iran dilemma exposes bitter split in president's circle - More

NBC News
Federal Reserve set to keep interest rates steady

NBC News
Trump weighs U.S. strike as Iran's Khamenei says the 'battle begins'

BBC News
Trump's Iran dilemma exposes bitter split among MAGA faithful

The New York Times
Mapping the Israel-Iran Conflict

The Associated Press
Iran's secretive nuclear site and the bomb that could destroy it

BBC News
Russia fears another loss in Middle East from Iran's conflict with Israel

The Guardian
US intelligence told senators Iran not building nuclear weapon despite Trump claim

CBS News
Trump getting comfortable with taking out nuclear facility, source says

Axio`s
Trump presses aides on whether bunker-buster plan to bomb Iran will work

Scientific American
the GBU-57/B is the Only Bomb That Could Destroy Iran's Nuclear Bunker

NBC News
Trump weighs U.S. strike as Iran's supreme leader says the 'battle begins'

Reuters News Agency
Trump privately approved attack plans for Iran pending final order

The Guardian
Trump says Iran deal ‘could still happen’

The Associated Press
Iran’s leader rejects call to surrender, saying U.S. intervention would cause ‘irreparable damage’

Global News
What are the stakes in Strait of Hormuz if Iran-Israel conflict worsens?

BBC News
How the Air India crash investigation is unfolding

The Associated Press
Eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano creates ash plume visible 90 miles away - More

The Associated Press
Today in History: 19 June - More

This Day in Aviation
19 June

Agence France-Presse
Comment Trump a chamboulé les marchés mondiaux

Agence France-Presse
La Bourse de Paris prudente face au conflit militaire entre Israël et l'Iran

France 24
Frappes puissantes et régulières sur Téhéran, Israël rapatrie ses ressortissants

Agence de presse Reuters
Ali Khamenei : implacable adversaire des États-Unis et d'Israël

International Commentary

Heather Cox Richardson | Substack
Trump talks like a mob boss

Lawrence O’Donnell | MSNBC News
Trump's ‘heartlessness’ was outdone by Sen. Lee’s ‘perverse’ tweets

Peter Nicholas, Peter Alexander, Jonathan Allen and Dan De Luce | NBC News
Amid escalating global tensions, Trump struggles to be a 'peacemaker'

Howard W. French | Foreign Policy
The Many Ways U.S. Involvement in the War on Iran Could Go Badly

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
The Democratic Party Slides Into Irrelevance

Jonathan Lemire and Isaac Stanley-Becker | The Atlantic
The MAGA Coalition Has Turned on Itself and Donald Trump is caught in the middle

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