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Confident that he will be able to secure a third term in office, Justin Trudeau has called a federal election. His gambit is a bold one and may backfire — the election, scheduled for this Monday, is taking place against a backdrop of a series of long-standing crises.

First and foremost is the damage inflicted on Canadian society by the global pandemic, which the country has failed to

The out-of-control Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has renewed contracts with private prison profiteers that will extend into the next 10 years, a despicable move that advocates said “appears designed to lock in a decade worth of detention” should presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden defeat impeached president Donald Trump in November.

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy is in tatters, his ruling Conservative party is disintegrating and he’s clinging on to power by a thread.

On Wednesday, members of Parliament are set to push their showdown with the premier over Britain’s divorce from the European Union to its climax. After seizing control over the parliamentary agenda, Johnson’s critics will aim to

Over the last six months, government officials and journalists have surfaced damning information that suggests New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration attempted to diminish the true pandemic death toll in the state’s nursing homes. State attorney general data revealed that New York’s public tally of nursing home deaths may have undercounted the fatalities by up to 50 percent, and the