News – Eric Reguly

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As Jeff Bezos prepares for a grand Venice wedding, locals are pushing back harder than ever

The Amazon billionaire and the rich and famous are all but taking over one of Europe’s most overcrowded tourist cities...

Published on: 21 Jun 2025

Ontario pivots to European defence market with car industry under threat

Ontario believes its aerospace sector has the most potential to create defence-related jobs...

Published on: 20 Jun 2025

This Iranian nuclear facility is key to Israel’s assault – but without U.S. help, it is untouchable

Buried deep in a mountain, the Fordow uranium enrichment plant is too well protected for Israel’s air force, but not the bunker-buster bombs in Washington’s arsenal...

Published on: 17 Jun 2025

The Israel-Iran war has, so far, not sent oil prices soaring. That could change

The last thing Donald Trump wants to see is gas prices soaring at the pump...

Published on: 16 Jun 2025

Canada’s F-35 costs are soaring to crazy levels. Time to bring on the drones instead

The cost of purchasing planes such as the F-35 pales in comparison with the cost of keeping them in the air...

Published on: 13 Jun 2025

Fearing Trump’s anger, non-U.S. G7 members will pursue low-bar victories in Kananaskis

The U.S. President is expected to be a disruptive force at this G7 summit as he was at previous ones...

Published on: 13 Jun 2025

U.S. withdraws some Middle East embassy staff as fears of Israeli strike on Iran grow

‘I don’t want to say imminent, but it looks like it’s something that could very well happen,’ Trump says...

Published on: 12 Jun 2025

Germany embraces militarism for the first time since the Second World War

Shares of Rheinmetall, the country’s biggest defence company, have climbed 230% in the past year – far outpacing Volkswagen...

Published on: 12 Jun 2025

Canada vs. Italy: Guess which is better at military procurement?

Unlike Canada, Italy did not give up on its shipyards or major defence contractors after the end of the Second World War and Cold War...

Published on: 06 Jun 2025

U.S. ambassador to NATO says the military alliance must outspend Russia on defence

Matthew Whitaker said NATO’s member countries must spend 5 per cent of their GDP on defence, up from the current 2-per-cent threshold...

Published on: 04 Jun 2025

Place your bets: Donald Trump vs. the bond markets. The odds favour the bonds

With bond yields high and the debt expanding like an out-of-control cancer, there will be a day of reckoning...

Published on: 31 May 2025

Behind the scenes at the Giro D’Italia, life is a gruelling cycle of nutrition and competition

The Q36.5 bike team, making its debut in a race toward Rome, strives toward the big finish...

Published on: 27 May 2025

Trump’s lunge for critical metals could come at a huge environmental cost by churning up the seabed

Trump’s executive order last month saw him direct the NOAA to grant permits to mining companies to operate in international and U.S. waters...

Published on: 23 May 2025

Carney makes debut in Europe as PM, tries to recast Canada’s global priorities

The Prime Minister met Pope Leo at St. Peter’s Basilica, and spoke with world leaders, effectively laying out plans for coming G7 summit in Alberta...

Published on: 18 May 2025

Leo XIV, first American pope, pleas for peace and unity in inaugural mass attended by world dignitaries

Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. Vice-President JD Vance attended the mass along with and an estimated 150,000 pilgrims from around the world...

Published on: 18 May 2025

Seizing almost €200-billion in Russian state assets at Euroclear could trigger ugly repercussions

It may damage Euroclear, make a mockery of its mission to ‘safekeep your investments’ and possibly destabilize the European economy and beyond...

Published on: 16 May 2025

Pope Leo calls for the release of journalist prisoners

In first address to media, Pope Leo urges freedom of speech, without fanaticism and hateful rhetoric...

Published on: 12 May 2025

Pope Leo XIV is an American with a missionary Latin heart who melds tradition with progressive outreach. Francis would be pleased

Many expect the new pontiff to be a bridge-builder in the Vatican, more centrist than liberal or conservative, and a pope who will be guided by the pursuit of social equality and compassion for the poor in the name of God...

Published on: 10 May 2025

Catholic Church elects new pope as white smoke billows from Vatican

His identity was not immediately known as the signal that the conclave had chosen a successor emerged from the Sistine Chapel...

Published on: 08 May 2025

Cardinals return to Vatican conclave to choose Pope Francis’s successor

Four votes to take place on second day of the biggest, most international conclave ever...

Published on: 08 May 2025

Waiting for Sistine Chapel smoke leaves thousands of tourists, and 4,000 journalists, in a strange Roman limbo

133 cardinals will vote for a new pope, an election process that begins on Wednesday...

Published on: 06 May 2025

This papal conclave will be the biggest, most international ever. Here’s how it will work

Choosing a replacement for Pope Francis is a secretive and time-tested process for the cardinal-electors in the Sistine Chapel...

Published on: 05 May 2025