A legislative proposal to unify Romania with the Republic of Moldova has cleared the Chamber of Deputies without a vote, advancing to the Senate despite opposition from the Romanian government and multiple parliamentary committees. Submitted by SOS Romania parliamentarians on April 14, the bill never received a plenary debate. Instead, it advanced automatically under Article […]
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Aframax-class tankers departing Trans Mountain’s Westridge Marine Terminal have been limited to loading roughly 80 per cent of capacity due to draft restrictions in Burrard Inlet’s Second Narrows. That constraint is now set to be addressed. The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has obtained all necessary federal permits, among them a federal authorization under the Fisheries […]
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Two powerful earthquakes struck north-central Venezuela in rapid succession on Wednesday, collapsing buildings in Caracas and triggering tsunami warnings across the Caribbean. The U.S. Geological Survey rated the back-to-back quakes at magnitudes 7.1 and 7.5, making them among the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century. The agency warned that high casualties and […]
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Trump canceled a planned signing ceremony at the Capitol for a sweeping housing affordability bill Wednesday, demanding Congress first pass his signature voting reform legislation — a bill Republicans have failed to move five times in the Senate.
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A fuel depot in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai was reported burning again, putting a southern distribution node back in the spotlight barely more than a week after an earlier strike. The reported target was the Poltavskaya oil depot in Krasnodar Krai. Videos posted by local residents appeared to show flames at the site, while Alexander Kharlitonov, […]
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At least three deaths are confirmed in one Caracas municipality after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's northern coast 40 seconds apart. The USGS projects a final toll of 10,000 to 100,000.
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Operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab ran nearly 29 million unauthorized exchanges with Claude through fake accounts over six weeks, Anthropic told US senators — a campaign it says dwarfs every prior distillation attack it has detected.
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China's Ministry of State Security wants fishermen to report spy turtles. China is also building the most ambitious underwater surveillance network any nation has attempted.
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Cuban state-owned companies can no longer claim sovereign immunity to block the case. About 40 similar lawsuits were waiting on this decision.
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Nearly $2 trillion in North American trade is heading into a July 1 review without the political alignment needed for a clean extension, turning what Canada wants to treat as a stability exercise into a bargaining round over tariffs, autos, dairy, softwood lumber, and industrial supply chains. The core tension is simple: Canada and Mexico […]
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The studio and DeepMind are partnering to build AI tools for filmmaking.
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The Senate passed a war powers resolution on Iran for the first time in nearly four months of conflict. Under the 1973 law, it may already be legally binding on Trump.
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Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and the Food and Drug Administration allowed a single 79-year-old man to receive retatrutide, Lilly’s still-unapproved obesity drug, through the FDA’s expanded access pathway. The request was made in April, according to STAT, which attributed the information to three people familiar with the matter who were not named because they feared […]
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A new account from Regime Change, the book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, says Vice President JD Vance floated India and Saudi Arabia as possible non-European contributors to a postwar Ukraine security force. President Donald Trump reportedly laughed off the idea, saying India would not pay for such a mission, […]
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The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $17.5 billion in conditional loans to help build 10 new large-scale nuclear reactors, with construction targeted to begin by 2030 with power to begin flowing in the mid-2030s. The move is designed to shave up to three years off the development timeline and drive down costs by rebuilding […]
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Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR) has agreed to acquire Vacuumschmelze, the century old advanced magnetics maker known as VAC, in a cash and stock deal that values the target at roughly $1.9 billion and pushes the uranium and rare earth producer into the downstream end of the magnet supply chain. The agreement, struck with private equity […]
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AbraSilver Resource Corp (TSX: ABRA) has unveiled a definitive feasibility study for its Diablillos silver-gold project, framing the asset as one of the more compelling undeveloped precious metals stories in the sector. The study assigns Diablillos an after-tax net present value of US$3.0 billion, or CAD$4.2 billion at a 5% discount rate, alongside a 41.9% […]
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Kirkland Lake Discoveries (TSXV: KLDC) has released a fresh batch of assay results from its 2026 diamond drilling program at the Mirado Project, with the results continuing to expand the area of mineralization. The standout is KLM26-010, drilled roughly 120 metres south of any previously known mineralization. The hole returned narrow but exceptionally high-grade gold, […]
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Cambria Gold Mines (TSXV: CAMB) has named Cleveland Rueckert as Vice-President (USA), the latest hire as the company assembles a management team to push its Mt. Margaret copper-gold project toward a planned spinout. Rueckert arrives with two decades in capital markets experience across investment management, equity research and investor relations. He most recently led investor […]
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The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion in supplemental funding, according to Wall Street Journal reporting, to help cover the US war against Iran and rebuild stocks of high-end munitions used since the conflict began earlier this year. The request is not part of the regular defense budget. President Donald Trump is […]
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Seven Ontario First Nations are set to become owners of a significant minority stake in the Darlington New Nuclear Project, backed by a C$715 million loan guarantee that breaks records for Indigenous financing in Canada. The federal and Ontario governments jointly announced the support for the Williams Treaties First Nations, split evenly between the federal […]
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A 60-day sanctions waiver on Iranian oil has already moved markets, pushed more tankers back through the Strait of Hormuz, and lowered crude prices. But the central political claim behind President Donald Trump’s latest Iran victory lap remains unresolved: whether Tehran actually agreed to the sweeping nuclear inspections Washington says it secured. Trump said Tuesday […]
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Canada’s news industry is not facing a simple trust crash. It is facing a split market. Pollara Strategic Insights’ latest Trust in Media study found that 51% of Canadian adults tend to trust information from the news media, compared with 35% who tend not to trust it. That is higher than Pollara’s readings in 2022 […]
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Canada’s new cybersecurity law does not just tell critical infrastructure operators to harden their systems. It gives Ottawa a lever to force action, require reporting, and penalize non-compliance, while leaving some of the government’s most sensitive cyber orders shielded from public view. Bill C-8, An Act Respecting Cyber Security, received royal assent on June 15, […]
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Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Russia is prepared to resume peace negotiations with Ukraine, but only on terms rooted in the 2022 Istanbul draft treaty and the framework discussed at last year’s Alaska summit between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. Putin’s conditions center on agreements that Ukrainian negotiators initialed in Istanbul in spring 2022, […]
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First Majestic Silver (NYSE: AG) (TSX: AG) has completed the sale of its Del Toro silver mine to Sierra Madre Gold and Silver (TSXV: SM), closing a transaction valued at up to US$60 million. The deal, struck under a share purchase agreement dated December 17, 2025, saw Sierra Madre acquire the asset via a mix […]
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Canada’s first ever National Nuclear Energy Strategy sets an ambitious target of up to 10 new reactors over the next 15 years, with officials acknowledging the build-out could cost more than $100 billion. The federal government has not specified how that bill would be paid. Released Monday by Energy Minister Tim Hodgson, the strategy calls […]
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MP Materials (NYSE: MP) and USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR), two companies at the heart of Washington’s push to build a domestic rare earth supply chain, are among 10 American firms that China has cut off from dual-use exports after Beijing accused them of ties to the U.S. military. China’s Ministry of Commerce made the […]
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Total Metals (TSXV: TT) has released the first set of assay results from its winter drill program at the Electrolode critical metals project in northwestern Ontario. The assays come from the first ten holes of a 25 hole, 8,408 metre program completed early in 2026, with the work concentrated on the Arrow and Garnet zones. […]
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Canada’s annual inflation rate reached 3.2% in May, its highest reading since late 2023, surprising analysts who had forecast a rise to three per cent from 2.8% in April, according to Reuters polling. Fuel costs were once again the dominant factor, with gasoline prices posting a 33.2% year-over-year gain in May, steeper than the 28.6% […]
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