Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is France’s last outpost in North America, a strip of land inhabited by just under six thousand people that holds strategic importance for Paris. Trump’s expansionist ambitions and the French president’s response

“A Canada–EU alliance would serve as a beacon for other democracies. An alliance defined not by what it opposes, but by what it stands for: freedom, solidarity, prosperity and sustainability,” said the Canadian Prime Minister to the European Parliament following Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal in Ottawa for Canada to become an “associate member” of the Union.

Canadian officials are discussing the broadest possible ties, right up to the limit of EU membership, which is legally impossible. All options are on the table: rewriting the CETA agreement, negotiating a new treaty or creating new forms of cooperation. But it will take more than a couple of speeches in Strasbourg to build the pact

After four years of investigations and trials, a Canadian judge has ordered the woman who accused Cardinal Marc Ouellet to pay the cardinal $100,000 in damages for “defamation and slander”

“We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean,” commented the White House chief. In the background, the trade dispute with Canada continues

Prime Minister Carney breaks with Trump over tariffs, whilst Beijing celebrates its ‘Chinese-style’ response