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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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 21 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 20 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 17 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 16 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 13 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 13 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 12 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 12 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 06 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 04 Jun 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 31 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 27 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 23 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 18 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 18 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 16 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 12 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 10 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 08 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 08 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 06 May 2025
Globe and Mail
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...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 05 May 2025
Globe and Mail