A recent visit to Cuba reminded me that Soviet-style state planning is no way to run a healthy economy. So it’s safe to say the New Hampshire primary win by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — who has variously referred to himself as a socialist and a democratic socialist — is not a request by voters…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s “first-in-the-nation” primary last night and this morning the “also ran” campaigns face existential questions of varying urgency. Can former vice-president Joe Biden recover in the more diverse South Carolina primary at the end of the month? Is the race over for Sen. Elizabeth Warren? Is “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg still…
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The top official with U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted border officers wrongly held and interrogated Iranian-born travellers — many of them Canadian and American citizens — at the Canada-U.S. border after military tensions with Iran escalated last month. “That was not in line with our direction and so that was immediately corrected,” said Mark Morgan, CBP’s acting commissioner,…
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today visited one of the most notorious entrepôts of the African transatlantic slave trade. Gorée Island, a rocky outcrop of just 28 hectares off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, operated as a slave trading post from the 15th century until the 19th century. Trudeau toured the Maison des Esclaves, a notorious last stop…
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Slow and unsteady, the woman with the cane steps off the sidewalk onto the six-lane boulevard. It’s a well-travelled road in the middle of Beijing, normally full of dangerous cars and hurtling buses. On this day, it’s a safe stroll to the other side. For almost three weeks, Beijing has been a ghost town, eerily…
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The polls are winding down in New Hampshire’s Democratic primary, and the first results will soon be released. Sen. Bernie Sanders is fighting for front-runner status. The party is hoping the primary will bring some clarity to a presidential nomination fight that has so far been marred by confusion and doubt. But for voters in…
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