Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says U.S. President Trump has given him his cellphone number. Zelenskyy believes Trump is the key to ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Zelenskyy spoke Friday to the Munich Security Conference. Trump this week upended years of steadfast U.S. support for Ukraine. Zelenskyy is expected to meet with U.S. Vice President JD Vance…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Economic uncertainty from U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs has left the B.C. government tightening its purse strings. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey announced on Thursday that the government will pause the $1,000 rebate promised in the election in advance of the March 4 provincial budget. Bailey said…
Kyiv and its European allies demanded on Thursday that they be included in any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO. Russia’s financial markets soared and the price of Ukraine’s debt rose at the…
Two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered Elon Musk to “go get” astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, NASA has announced the pair will likely arrive back on Earth a little sooner than planned. The space agency announced Tuesday that SpaceX will switch capsules for upcoming astronaut flights in order to bring Wilmore and…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state is a “non-starter” as he vowed to respond to incoming tariffs. Speaking to reporters in Brussels on Wednesday, Trudeau said Canada does not want to be in a trade…
U.S. President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce. The Associated Press reviewed a White House fact sheet on the order, which is intended to advance Musk’s work slashing spending with his…
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has accepted nearly US$300,000 in donations from fans as he awaits trial. According to a fundraiser on GiveSendGo, the December 4 Legal Committee has made contact with Mangione’s legal team, which accepted the US$297,000 (nearly C$425,176) raised at the time of contact to pay…
British Columbia Premier David Eby says he’s hopeful a trip to Washington, D.C., will help convince U.S. decision-makers to step back from the brink on tariffs. But he said regardless of the outcome of the mission he’s undertaking with other Canadian premiers, the relationship between the two countries has permanently changed. 1:48 U.S. aluminum, steel…
The Vatican’s charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis’ point-man on development aid insisting that the Trump administration remember Christian principles about caring for others as it begins governing. Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit, is one of the cardinals most…
It’s been years since the prospect of a pipeline to carry oil from the West to the East of Canada has been front and centre. But new comments by the federal energy minister amid U.S. tariff threats have many asking: could it finally happen? Trump has threatened a 10 per cent tariff on energy resources…
