Addressing Canada’s productivity gap: A journey towards global leadership

November 3, 2025 | Article

Canada can reverse its economic slowdown and embrace its potential for global excellence—but it will take audacious, targeted moves that shift from a narrow focus on internal optimizations to bold moves that raise labour productivity and scale exports.

Ukraine talks gain momentum as US and Russian officials meet in Abu Dhabi

Updated 1:28 AM EST,

Tue November 25, 2025

Where things stand

• US-Russia talks: US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is holding meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi about a proposed plan for ending the war in Ukraine, a US official told CNN.

• Diplomatic push: The meetings follow days of talks in Switzerland, where American and Ukrainian officials negotiated the plan, which was authored by the US with input from Russia and Ukraine.

• Sticking points remain: Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said he would discuss “sensitive issues” in the proposal with President Donald Trump, whom the White House said is “optimistic that a deal can be struck.”

Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation

Nov. 23, 2025

By David French

Opinion Columnist

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re an American pilot flying an F-16 over Iraq. The troops on the ground have been pursuing a small group of Iraqi insurgents. They report that they’ve cornered the insurgents in a small farm house. Rather than take the risk of assaulting the house on the ground, the commander has called you in to make a precision strike from the air — to blow up the entire building.

Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?

Visual Capitalist

on November 23, 2025

By Bruno Venditti

Graphics/Design:

Anna Diederichs

Key Takeaways

• Luxembourg ranks first in global coffee consumption in 2025, averaging more than five cups per person per day.
• India ranks last among the 65 countries analyzed, consuming just 0.02 cups per person per day.

Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed

Lindsey Halligan was appointed after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the former FBI director and New York attorney general.
Nov. 24, 2025
By Dareh Gregorian, Gary Grumbach and Ryan J. Reilly

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James after finding the prosecutor who brought the cases, former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan, was not lawfully appointed.

An ancient planet smashed into Earth. We now know its origin

Matthew Ward Agius

November 20, 2025
A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy neighbor.

Royal Navy intercepts Russian warship and tanker off UK coast

The Royal Navy intercepted a Russian warship and tanker in the Dover Strait and English Channel

The Independent

James C. Reynolds

Sunday 23 November 2025 

The Royal Navy intercepted a Russian warship and a tanker off the coast of the United Kingdom. HMS Severn, a patrol vessel, shadowed the RFN Stoikiy corvette and a tanker vessel in the past fortnight, the Ministry of Defence said on Sunday.

An unusual trend in the economy is worrying the Fed

Analysis by Bryan Mena

15 hr ago

Washington — Something in the US economy isn’t adding up, and it’s rattling the people charged with wrangling inflation and keeping the labor market intact.

Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis, another Kennedy family tragedy

Story by Meg James • 1d • 

Los Angles Times

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, is battling a rare form of leukemia and may have less than a year to live.

In an essay published Saturday in the New Yorker, the 35-year-old environmental journalist wrote that her illness was discovered in May 2024 after she gave birth to her daughter. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3 and has undergone several treatments, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.

Zohran Mamdani Knew How to Handle Donald Trump

Story by Peter Dreier for Jacobin

Donald Trump loves to pick “winners” and “losers.” And right now, in the eyes of the American people, Trump can sense that he is a loser and Zohran Mamdani is a winner.

Why was Donald Trump so solicitous toward New York’s democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani when he visited the White House on Friday? Throughout his mayoral campaign, Trump attacked Mamdani as a Communist who would destroy New York. He even gave Andrew Cuomo a last-minute endorsement.

Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries

Story by STEVE KARNOWSKI and JULIE CARR SMYTH 

23 November 2025 

5 min read
The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Since it was created in 2018, the federal government's cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials how to protect polling places from attacks, and gamed out how to respond to the unexpected, such as an Election Day bomb threat or sudden disinformation campaign.

Ukraine seeks urgent changes to Trump peace plan that appeases Russia

Negotiations are continuing in Geneva on Sunday as a U.S.-imposed Thanksgiving deadline approaches

23 November 2025

Story by Lizzie Johnson, Catherine Belton

KYIV — U.S. and Ukrainian officials are in Geneva on Sunday working through a new version of a controversial plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine ahead of a Thanksgiving deadline imposed by the United States, as President Donald Trump faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and his own base over the proposal.

Sow and 2 cubs likely involved in Bella Coola grizzly attack on school group: conservation officer

Witness accounts indicate there were 2 other grizzlies in the area at the time of the attack

Shaurya Kshatri · CBC News · Posted: Nov 22, 2025 3:06 PM PST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Three bears — a grizzly sow and two cubs — were “likely” involved in the attack on a school group in Bella Coola, B.C., according to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS).

Pam Bondi’s comments suggesting Luigi Mangione deserves execution shouldn’t affect death penalty case, prosecutors say

Luigi Mangione appears at Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on September 16. - Mike Segar/Reuters

Associated Press
Sat, November 22, 2025, at 7:52 AM PST
4 min read

Prosecutors said Friday that Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should carry on unimpeded, urging a judge to reject a defense push to dismiss charges and rule out capital punishment over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public statements suggesting Mangione deserves execution.

The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right

The conservative backlash against Nick Fuentes has yet to challenge the president who had him over for dinner.

Opinion by Peter Wehner

• 16h •

11 min read

Last month, Tucker Carlson, the host of one of the country’s most popular podcasts, interviewed Nick Fuentes, a white-nationalist influencer, for more than two hours. The two men got along famously, and it was little wonder why. Carlson has become a fierce and obsessive critic of Israel; he has interviewed a Holocaust revisionist and said that “Christian Zionists” have “been seized by this brain virus.”

Trump says Zelensky can agree to peace plan or ‘fight his little heart out’

Story by Tobi Raji • 5h • 3 min read

President Donald Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he can either agree to the White House’s peace proposal by Thursday, or “continue to fight his little heart out.”

The comment, made to reporters in Washington, is part of a White House push to get Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to end the war that began with Russia’s invasion in February 2022. It has drawn criticism, including from Republican lawmakers, for being favorable to Moscow.

Scientists detect a magnetic reversal near Earth for the first time

 11-21-

ByRaquel Brandao

Earth.com staff writer

A NASA fleet has spotted the first magnetic switchback near Earth, a zigzag in the magnetic field at the edge of our planet’s shield. The result shows that twists once seen near the Sun also appear in our space neighborhood.

Newly Discovered Bach Pieces Are the Fruits of Decades of Detective Work

Performances

A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the composer’s official catalog.

By Adam Nagourney

Nov. 19, 2025

In 1992 Peter Wollny, then a Harvard graduate student in musicology, was researching his dissertation at the Royal Library of Belgium when he came across two unsigned music manuscripts so strikingly original that he had copies made and set them aside.