Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
By ERIKA KINETZ and DESMOND BUTLER For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal…
Canada
Does China still harvest organs of executed? Doctors divided
A Canadian patient’s receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation…
America seen from abroad: arrogant, nice, tech-savvy, free
By VIJAY JOSHI The rest of the world may think Americans eat a lot of burgers, have huge shopping malls and are ruled by an arrogant government. And yet the…
North America leaders urge against Trump’s isolationism
By KEVIN FREKING and ROB GILLIES President Barack Obama and the leaders of Mexico and Canada pushed back forcefully on Wednesday against the isolationist and anti-immigrant sentiments that have roiled…
Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one…
Killing Keystone XL, Obama says pipeline not in US interests
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama killed a Canadian energy giant’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring the proposed project wouldn’t serve U.S. national interests and…
Son of late PM Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s new leader
By ROB GILLIES Canadian voters reclaimed their country’s liberal identity sending Justin Trudeau — the son of one of the country’s most dynamic politicians — to the prime minister’s office…
Harper battles Liberal icon’s son in Canadian elections
By ROB GILLIES Canadians voted Monday to decide whether to extend Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s near-decade in power or return Canada to its more liberal roots. Harper has trailed…