Fire safety contractor knew Wang Fuk Court alarms were off before fatal blaze, inquiry hears 🔗 buff.ly/cXMTiP2

#InternationalWomensDay2026 | Preet Chandi MBE, known as 'Polar Preet’, aims to become the first woman ever to reach the North Pole solo and unsupported

A Google engineer noticed that clients were mentioning AI more often. She up-skilled even though she was nervous, and said it paid off.

BP’s new boss will take home at least £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor

The Canadian government is working to repatriate citizens ‌who are stranded in the Middle East by organizing seats on commercial flights, contracting charter flights and offering ground transportation options to neighboring countries, Canada's foreign affairs minister said reut.rs/4sju2PM

Canadian PM Mark Carney offers to team up with Australia as ‘strategic cousins’ to push back against dominant superpowers

These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians? ft.trib.al/FitQKrF

Trump’s unclear plan for Iran may be what keeps Canada on the sidelines, experts say

IFC-backed $100m initiative to boost women-owned businesses in developing world reut.rs/4r2TzM4

Canada is about to take on the U.S. for Olympic gold in men's hockey. Follow along here for live updates

Day 20 #BHM: Phillis Wheatley (c.1753–1784): 1st published Black poet, she was captured in West Africa, trafficked on a slave ship, enslaved & later emancipated. She learned English & began to read in Latin, demonstrating the depth of her intellectual potential. 1/2 youtu.be/f_Bx9emX9Dc?... #PINKS

while the rest of the country celebrates presidents’ day, in alaska we are celebrating ELIZABETH PERATROVICH DAY 🎉… complete with parades, re-enactments, and banquets elizabeth, a native american woman, was essential in alaska passing the united states’ first anti-discrimination legislation in 1945

We remember today!

Canadians kind of hate America now. Our new poll shows just how much.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com It’s been decades since the Winter Olympics has featured a “kind of showdown that pits two nations in a symbolic clash of worldviews,” Adam Sternbergh writes. Thursday’s women’s hockey final between the U.S. and Canada is bringing back this “elbows up” energy.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has offered to “broker a bridge” between the EU and a fast-growing Indo-Pacific trade bloc this year to form a new anti-Trump trade pact.

Canadian snowbirds are still unhappy with Trump. And Palm Springs is feeling the chill

While the number of female scientists and engineers in the EU has increased over the past decade, women are still widely underrepresented in these fields. #EuropeInMotion

US automakers Ford, GM and Stellantis now make just a quarter of the cars assembled in Canada. They're losing influence with Mark Carney’s government, which is looking overseas.

President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war, threats to seize Greenland, and immigration enforcement efforts have made the U.S. a less desirable destination, travel agents said.

The US under current management is a critical threat to Europe+ democracies — the UK, Norway, Canada, as well as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. This weekend's Munich Security Conference is the place to start planning counter-measures.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European allies at NATO on Thursday brushed aside concerns that the United States has stepped back from its leadership role of the world’s biggest security organization, leaving them and Canada to do the lion’s share of defending Europe.

Meanwhile in Canada. 🇨🇦 @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

Meet the Hell Cats: Four women veterans, all Democrats, running for Congress. They hope their backgrounds in the military and national security will be exactly what their party needs in their swing seat races.

US House in bipartisan vote defies Trump, agrees to end his tariffs on Canada minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/11/r...

A small faction of Republicans broke ranks and voted Wednesday night to terminate President Donald Trump's "emergency" tariffs on many imports from Canada.

Trump threatened to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which will connect Detroit with the city of Windsor, Ontario, in Canada.

“The paternalistic attitude, that of an abusive deadbeat, shown by America is all too similar to that used by Russia and China in their rhetoric towards Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively. MAGA is signalling that Alberta, or Ellesmere Island and the Arctic Archipelago, are to be our Donbass and Crimea

Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

Early in his marriage, his job came first. He was dimly aware that his wife of 14 years carried most of the household load, but he reassured himself with a familiar justification: “I’m bringing in more money.” https://cnn.it/4aAjoy6

Ice hockey-Canada keener than ever to hit the ice after norovirus postponement reut.rs/4toh8l0

Nature rarely builds solid. Bird bones, seashells and honeycombs use clever, porous designs to stay strong without the extra weight. Now, #3Dprinting is letting engineers copy those natural blueprints — “printing air” into products that are lighter, safer and more efficient. ⬇️ #science 🧪

Women known as the “Military Mapping Maidens” produced tens of thousands of topographic maps during World War II, while men fought overseas. Yet their work remained largely uncredited until recently, explains a specialist in geographic information systems.

A female archeologist dispelled theories that the statues on Easter Island were created by outsiders. Much of her work was later lost or ignored. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Commentary: Mark Carney’s Davos speech warned that a Trump-led rupture in the global order leaves middle powers to act collectively and diversify away from U.S. dependence, with Japan uniquely exposed.

Allies Look Away From the U.S. on Trade https://bit.ly/4pYUZGQ

Residents of Alberta are not interested in joining the U.S., the premier of the Canadian province says after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested a referendum might be held on whether to stay in Canada.

News Analysis: A playbook emerges to counter Trump as 'middle powers' unite

Donald Trump warned Canada that if it concludes a trade deal with China, he will impose a 100 percent tariff on all goods coming over the border. In full: buff.ly/7CwWrAG

Canada and the U.S. are squabbling over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to chart a new model for smaller powers to fight back against the U.S.’s aggressive use of its economic and military might. on.wsj.com/4jTThoQ

'Mark Carney's powerful speech at Davos called for solidarity and honesty over US threats — and the need to stand up to lies' | ✍️ Max Hastings

‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney drew a rare standing ovation at Davos yesterday in a speech where he warned that the “old order is not coming back”. Addressing the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Carney said the world is in the “midst of a rupture, not a transition”. jrnl.ie/6933363

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a major address in Davos to argue that the world’s middle powers must band together to resist coercion from aggressive superpowers.

Mark Carney’s dispassionate tone masked a stunning message of realignment: China is a “more predictable” trading partner than the US now, requiring stronger ties with Beijing as a “new world order” takes hold.

NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States. Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.

Canada agrees to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower duties on Canadian farm products, in a break with the U.S.

Canada took an important step toward reinvigorating its ties with China, as Beijing seeks to woo U.S. allies who have grown frustrated with American protectionism.

#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives