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As the US guts foreign aid funding, the Norwegian Refugee Council says it has been forced to suspend life-saving programmes because the Americans won't pay their bills - the NRC says it's dealing with "a liquidity crisis" that it "can no longer absorb" nrc.no/news/2025/febr…

Despite a pledge to review US aid & development programs, the Trump admin is cutting them - 10,000 contracts and grants - or 90% of USAID's workload. Plus it's fighting to avoid paying for aid work already completed. Thomas Byrnes with this clear summary: linkedin.com/pulse/death-de…

Sad but wonderful - Dr Bryant Lin with the inside story on his own death, as told to his students at Stanford University... nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/…

Bad news for Starmer and Macron. Vance confirms the only US security guarantee in Ukraine will be the mineral deal. He also plays down British & French peacekeeping troops as “20k troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.

Canada stands alone says 'the Globe' - even Britain failing to defend it: "The U.S. is now a protection racket, providing security only to countries that give it something in return – critical minerals, oil & gas, obeisance, invitations to meet a king." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

Will Donald Trump address Canada’s next Prime Minister as ‘Governor Mark Carney’? Expect fewer emotional outbursts from the new Liberal leader - and a sober, banker’s eye as he heads into battle: news.sky.com/story/the-man-…

Mark Carney - a familiar name in a very unfamiliar position - saving the (Canadian) nation from Trump. Can this professorial technocrat manage it? My take: news.sky.com/story/mark-car…

Ontario premier, Doug Ford, is actively testing the theory that major stock market falls will work as a restraint on Trump - that's what his electricity tariff is designed to do. Problem is, the US president's aspirations aren't just economic... cnb.cx/3FiAS50

Cambridge hasn't built a new college in years (unlike their more ambitious relations in Oxford). How about a new one - Stormzy College - with a recruitment strategy dedicated to diversity and inclusion? Stormzy theguardian.com/music/2025/mar…

Trump is pushing the world to a very real precipice by threatening Greenland's territorial integrity: "we’re going to have to have it," he says. At stake are the values & obligations born of the horrors of the 20th century. If you shrugged it off before - you need to engage now.

Important perspective on IOC’s new chief Kirsty Coventry's shaky record as Zimbabwe’s sports minister by Geoffrey York and team: theglobeandmail.com/sports/olympic…

Chinese soldiers captured in Ukraine: Zelensky doesn’t want to make a bad situation worse - but China's position on the war in Europe is openly contradictory: news.sky.com/story/ukraine-…

Truss Prime Ministership, still accompanied by red flashing lights: "U.S. Bond Sell-Off is Another Worrisome Echo of the Liz Truss Fiasco" nytimes.com/2025/04/09/bus…

It took 17 months to do it - a small group of British volunteers, had to battle to bring 2 children from Gaza to the UK for urgent medical care. Watch the inside story here w/ Zein Jaafar Michael Greenfield Paul Nasr news.sky.com/story/two-chil…

Brexit: the inevitable unravelling of an appalling mistake: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I know it's a long flight - but Canada isn't a republic - it's a parliamentary democracy. Nor is Salma Lakhani the 'Governor' - she's the King's rep in Alberta, or the 'Lieutenant Governor'. Plus, Alberta doesn't have a mayor, so I'm pretty sure there's no deputy mayor either.