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We all need things to read other than articles where liberals and the left yell at each other over the election, depressing election post-mortems, and pieces describing the horrors to come. So how about some good reading on the colonial booze trade? In 1713, because of the lobbying of the powerful brandy producers frantic at having lost the British market during the War of Spanish Succession, a law was passed in France making it illegal to either produce or import distilled alcohol made from anything but wine, a law that stayed in effect for most of the eighteenth century.
The annual Halifax International Security Forum brings together senior Canadian, European, and U.S. military and civilian officials, and you can guess what was on everyone's mind this year: To be more specific, the crowd was eager to pump U.S. participants, including a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators, about whether Trump would turn his back on NATO and cozy up to Vladimir Putin. Many asked whether the president-elect might hold an early meeting with Putin even before getting together with NATO allies - which would send a dangerous signal.
Jobless and with graduation looming, a computer science student at the premier university in the nation of Georgia decided early this year that money could be made from America's voracious appetite for passionately partisan political news. He set up a website, posted gushing stories about Hillary Clinton and waited for ad sales to soar.
Canada's pipeline gridlock is harming its global reputation as an attractive place to invest in oil and gas projects, says a leading industry group. Tim McMillan, CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said Donald Trump's election in the United States adds pressure to Canada to clear regulatory hurdles blocking new projects.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump acknowledges his supporters between vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, left, and his daughter Ivanka, right, at a campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. Ontario politicians are worried about what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for this province's huge reliance on trade with the United States, and none of them is really sure what to do about it. Trump, who takes office in January, promised over and over to restore traditional manufacturing jobs in the United States, especially in states whose economies have been hollowed out by international competition.
After three days of discussion, the Halifax International Security Forum ended with a collective shrug as political thinkers from around the globe expressed uncertainty about how the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. might affect the international order. Canadian politicians made it clear that whatever the president-elect's foreign policy may entail, the country is prepared to hold its own on the world stage - with or without its neighbour.
Washington : President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. AP/PTI It was 22:30 on November 8th and I was in the "Irish Village", an Ottawa complex of inter-connected pubs and site of the largest US Election-Night party in Canada's capital city.
The publisher of a small southern Manitoba family of weekly newspapers made an appeal for back-to-basics local reporting Thursday to a group of MPs examining Canada's beleaguered news industry. The gruff, to-the-point testimony by Ken Waddell of the Neepawa Banner, Neepawa Press and River Banner helped ground a Commons committee inquiry mired in months of often contradictory hearings.
Less than two weeks after Republican Donald Trump's stunning electoral victory, the Democratic contender for U.S. vice-president, Tim Kaine, is scheduled to attend an international foreign affairs and defence conference in Halifax. Kaine, a U.S. senator from Virginia, is among a list of high-profile political and military leaders expected to join the weekend meeting, which will include U.K. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Robert Work and France's defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian.
OBAMA SAYS U.S. UNDER TRUMP WILL MAINTAIN ALLIANCES: U.S. President Barack Obama says the U.S. under Donald Trump will remain the "indispensable nation" for global security and praised the president-elect for vowing to maintain America's alliances. Obama said relationships and policies go beyond presidents and military officials, diplomats and intelligence officers would with their foreign counterparts as before.
The chill of the Cold War will run through Cuba when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in the country this week. The warming of relations between Cuba and the United States could end next year when Donald Trump takes over as president, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress that has vowed to renew sanctions and roll back the re-opening of diplomatic relations.
Michelle meets Melania: First Lady's meeting with her successor is kept behind closed doors and photo is only released after media pressure How Obama out-manspreaded Trump: Body language expert reveals the truth behind that very awkward-looking first meeting between the pair at the White House Saudi prince who declared Trump 'a disgrace to America' on Twitter - and received a blunt retort from The Donald - tries to make amends following his election victory 'Now we're going to make American great again!' President-elect Trump is greeted at the Capitol by Paul Ryan - who uses his slogan and points out his hotel Running for the HILLS! Clinton is spotted for first time since conceding election defeat - and smiles like the world has been lifted off her shoulders Democrats at war: Staffer screams at pro-Clinton DNC leader Donna Brazile for helping Trump take the White House while her DNC pals ... (more)
The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, all but dead under U.S. President Barack Obama, may find new life under pro-oil president-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to reverse course on much of Obama's energy and environmental agenda. TransCanada Corp. said Wednesday it is considering how to pitch the next president on the benefits of the proposed, and denied, pipeline that would give oilsands crude better access to U.S. markets.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers remarks at the WE Day celebration, an annual youth empowerment event, in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Trudeau vowed Wednesday to work with President-elect Donald Trump "in a positive way."
Diesel leaches into tidal pools after a spill in the Great Bear Rainforest last month. Canada Transportation Minister Marc Garneau made headlines this weekend when he announced that by the end of the year, a long-promised ban on oil tanker traffic will be put in place off the North Coast of British Columbia-weeks after the government was harshly criticized for its bungled response to a spill in that same region.
Local radio DJ Tyler Glen travelled to Fargo, N.D., in November 2008 to help with Barack Obama's presidential campaign. On Nov. 4, 2008, I was up at 5 a.m. ready to knock on doors and make phone calls on behalf of the Obama campaign.
Mie Larson, left, and Cheryl Conley-Strange, pose for a photo at the provincial legislative building in Winnipeg, Man., on Oct. 20, 2016. They're part of a group of a dozen Manitoba friends, now headed down to help the Democrats in a crucial region of the crucial swing state of Florida.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met EU leaders in Brussels on Sunday to finally sign a giant trade deal seven years in the making that was almost torpedoed by a small region of Belgium. The ceremony had been pushed back from Thursday after French-speaking Wallonia, with just 3.6 million people, initially vetoed a deal affecting more than 500 million Europeans and 35 million Canadians.
Writer Madeleine Thien poses for a portrait in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Canadian authors Thien and David Szalay are both in the running for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction being awarded later today in London.
Infighting among Putin's inner circle has led to a series of disclosures over the past few months that have shined a harsh light on the private dealings of the Kremlin court -- much as Hillary Clinton has endured the airing of thousands of e-mails as a result of what the U.S. calls Russian hacking of her campaign. As the Kremlin gears up for Putin's last re-election bid in 18 months, anti-graft crusader Alexei Navalny has emerged as the conduit of choice for rival factions to scoop dirt on each other as they jostle to retain their fiefdoms.