One province with an outsize number of cases has seen a collision of politics and public health policy.
Canada is on track to lose its place among the nations that have eliminated measles, as international health officials convene this week to review that designation, which experts call a measure of a country’s overall pandemic preparedness.
What Wider War In Venezuela Would Bring: Escalation would be almost inevitable.
Russia, and possibly even China, would feel obligated to enhance military support in response to a missile, air, or even drone strike on sovereign Venezuelan territory.
November 5, 2025
ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPS)
Bill Gates picked one hell of a moment to release his call for a “strategic pivot” in tackling climate change. “Hell” being the most frequent description of sheltering through the terrifying fury of Hurricane Melissa as it cut across the Caribbean.
Graham Platner’s problem is that he lives just a tad too far south. If the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine wanted to make all the hubbub about his Nazi tattoo go away, all he’d have to do is move to Canada.
The furor over Platner’s Totenkopf, or Death’s Head, tattoo stands in striking contrast to Canada, where both Nazi symbols and a shameful history of aiding Nazis is hushed over or, quite simply, blurred out.
Despite the announcement of a deal between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Israeli regime, the latter continues to violate the ceasefire provisions. The world treats the ceasefire as if the genocide has ended, but the reality on the ground tells a different story: Gaza is in ruins; and starvation, displacement, and death continue as deliberate tools of genocide. This so-called ceasefire exists only in rhetoric; genocide continues while diplomatic actors debate who allegedly broke the deal.
