Checkpoint

1 of 2 | A bereaved family member places a name tag on the remains of a family member who was killed during the Jeju Massacre. Photo courtesy of Jeju Provincial Office JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Seven sets of remains belonging to victims of an early…

Key takeaways New START, a 15-year-old nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, is about to expire. It’s the last remaining treaty of its kind between the worlds’ two main nuclear powers. US-Russia tensions, particularly over the war in Ukraine, have made it difficult to negotiate a…

D eep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster. Like the iron giant of British poet Ted Hughes’s fable, it, too, has come back to life, reassembled. Hughes’s creation saves the planet. What’s this one’s mission? Our iron giant is…

In the latest NDB Sunday Show, Chris Steyn and US intelligence analyst, retired Colonel Chris Wyatt talk about former president Jacob Zuma's name popping up in the Epstein Files; the mysterious death of Goolam whose posts on X had made him the target of many a politician; African National Congress…

The U.S. government revealed details of a secret satellite program it used to spy on the Soviet Union at the height of geopolitical tension between the two nations. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) recently declassified its JUMPSEAT spy satellite, eight of which launched to a highly elliptical orbit from 1971…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 30, 2026 10:39 am 1 min read Environment Canada warns of dangerous wind chills across southern Ontario, with temperatures feeling as cold as -40 C in some areas and frostbite possible within minutes. Doug Ives/ The Canadian Press Environment Canada is warning people…

The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s military communication signals. The program was codenamed Jumpseat, and its existence was already public knowledge through leaks and contemporary media reports. What’s new is…

The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satellites, eight of which launched to Earth orbit between 1971 and 1987. (Image credit: NRO) We just learned about a pioneering U.S. spy satellite program, nearly 40 years after its final spacecraft launched to the final…

The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass…

Tariffs are on, until they are not. Military force is an option … and then it’s off the table. Erratic behavior and unpredictability is having a moment in foreign policy circles. In the White House and elsewhere, it is seemingly being viewed as a strategic asset rather than a weakness.…