Canadian political leaders expressed shock and dismay at events Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as a violent mob loyal to U.S. President Donald Trump paraded through the Capitol building, stealing items and vandalizing property.
If the least surprising thing in the world is that a mob of Trump extremists would storm the U.S. House and Senate as they met to confirm the president-elect, the most shocking was that it would be so easy, writes Sandy Garossino.
What was supposed to be a historic day in the U.S. capital lived up to that billing for all the wrong reasons Wednesday as an angry throng of Donald Trump supporters managed to overpower police and lay siege to Capitol Hill.
The battle for control of Capitol Hill came down to the wire on Tuesday, January 5, 20201, as a late surge of votes from Atlanta's suburban outskirts put Democrats within shouting distance of the two remaining seats in the U.S. Senate.
If Donald Trump has anything in common with Canada, it might be this: a shared craving for the attention of the American people that at times can border on the pathological.
As America is ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump squats with his eyes glued to his phone, tweeting. A petulant grin on his face, he seems oblivious to the virus spilling out all around him in this cartoon by Michael de Adder.
Conspiracy theories, including those propagated by the once-fringe QAnon movement, have gained traction as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels fear, social and economic insecurity, and mistrust in authorities, experts in Canada say.
In conversation with Canada’s National Observer on Thursday evening, Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein flagged a tangential result of the past four years of Donald Trump: a deluge of hard-hitting, gobsmacking investigative journalism, Luke Ottenhof writes.
The United States will "work with the world" to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday, December 8, 2020, even as he signed an order aimed at putting Americans at the head of the line.