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‘Extreme cold weather’ warning for Ottawa area, Skateway unlikely to open by weekend Cold War

‘Extreme cold weather’ warning for Ottawa area, Skateway unlikely to open by weekend

A media preview was held on Thursday to view the Snowflake Kingdom Thursday at 250 rue Laurier in Gatineau. Artist Francis Aube, from Quebec City, works on a snow sculpture at Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau. Preparations are under way prior to opening day of Winterlude, which begins this weekend. Photo…
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February 3, 2023
Peter Morici: The WTO no longer serves U.S. foreign-policy interests Cold War

Peter Morici: The WTO no longer serves U.S. foreign-policy interests

The World Trade Organization no longer serves U.S. foreign policy interests. The U.S. and its allies established the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to limit tariffs and quantitative restrictions and to promote trade in goods. Re-christened the WTO in 1995, agreements were added to cover trade in services and discipline domestic…
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February 1, 2023
Doomsday clock advances to 90 seconds to midnight — the closest to apocalypse it’s ever been Cold War

Doomsday clock advances to 90 seconds to midnight — the closest to apocalypse it’s ever been

Home News A billowing white mushroom cloud during Operation Ivy, the first test of a hydrogen bomb, at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. (Image credit: CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) The Doomsday Clock, created 76 years ago by atomic scientists to warn against a human-made apocalypse, has moved to 90…
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January 24, 2023
BATTLEFIELD: AFRICA: Wagner Group leads Russia’s African front in cold war with the West Cold War

BATTLEFIELD: AFRICA: Wagner Group leads Russia’s African front in cold war with the West

On 7 December 2022, a 12-member delegation from Burkina Faso led by Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla embarked on a highly secretive trip to Moscow. Only after questions were raised about the absence of so many of its top officials from Ouagadougou did the government put out a…
bubmag
January 12, 2023
Dark clouds, silver linings: Five ways war in Ukraine is transforming the space domain Cold War

Dark clouds, silver linings: Five ways war in Ukraine is transforming the space domain

Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was the biggest story of 2022. Aside from reviving Cold War fears of nuclear war and playing havoc with energy markets, it’s been a black swan event for a space industry still adjusting to a black swan called COVID. Russia’s flouting of international order set…
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December 23, 2022