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Doug Saunders

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What Viktor Orban taught Trump about how to seize power

21.03.2025 9

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No, Trump isn’t out to get Canada’s resources. It’s worse than that

14.03.2025 100

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Here’s how Canada can target America’s exposed backside: cut off its toilet paper

06.03.2025 10

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Donald Trump’s alien ideology has caused a global crisis among conservatives

28.02.2025 10

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Canada’s border is broken, but not the way Trump thinks. Here’s how the next government can fix it

22.02.2025 10

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2024 was a ‘Year of Elections’ when democracy lost out

My journey through this Year of Elections began with a lesson in real democracy in a place where I had not expected to find one. I then witnessed...

27.12.2024 10

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Trump’s threats should remind us of Canada’s underpopulation risk

Donald Trump’s tariff threats have been a sobering reminder of Canada’s enduring flaw: The still-inadequate size and density of our consumer,...

09.12.2024 40

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The ghosts of Merkel’s legacy made Germany vanish from the world stage

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 26: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks as she presents her memoirs ''Freedom. Memories 1954 - 2021' at an...

28.11.2024 10

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The toxic myths of Ukraine’s 2014 election continue to poison the country’s post-2024 future

Your view of what should be done in Ukraine after 2024 is determined by what you believe happened there in 2014. Those events unfolded so quickly...

15.11.2024 4

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Three steps to replace an America-sized hole in the free world

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters at his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm...

08.11.2024 3

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Escalating a war to elect a U.S. president: Is this the Netanyahu strategy?

Plenty of U.S. elections have been fought over the conduct of foreign wars. What we’re seeing in the Middle East today is a disturbing new...

01.11.2024 10

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For a Venezuelan migrant family, the U.S. election is another crossroads in a perilous journey

More on the Undercurrents series This is an epilogue to a year-long project in which Doug Saunders explored the global migration crisis, and the...

18.10.2024 10

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What’s splitting Germany isn’t ‘anti-immigration’ politics. It’s worse

Björn Höcke, party and parliamentary group leader of the AfD in Thuringia and top candidate, leaves the AfD election party in Erfurt, Germany, on...

06.09.2024 20

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Canada should have the power to seize Moscow’s frozen money, even if it’s unwise to use it

For some Canadians, nothing symbolizes foreign-policy inaction more than flying into Toronto’s Pearson Airport and seeing the world’s heaviest...

01.08.2024 10

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What is the world to do when the U.S. President has a set expiry date?

U.S. President Joe Biden pauses before he addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on July 24, about his...

25.07.2024 3

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Close the border and squeeze out more babies: The Trump circle’s curious fertility cult

Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks during a fundraising event at Discovery World on July 17 in Milwaukee....

17.07.2024 10

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