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BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has a bold proposal in response to the United States’ mounting military presence in the Caribbean: A union between Colombia and Venezuela.
The South American leader is floating the idea of recreating Gran Colombia, a republic formed in 1821 that encompassed modern day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama.
Analysts and political insiders downplayed the likelihood of such a move, but the proposal underscores the breakdown in relations between Washington and Bogota, historically the White House’s closest ally in the region. Petro’s...
November 15, 2025 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
Mentally ill people in crisis are frequently discharged from Vancouver’s hospitals before their symptoms are adequately resolved because the limited bed space is needed for a stream of new patients, according to a long-time clinician who oversaw psychiatric care at Vancouver’s downtown hospital.Bill MacEwan, the former head of psychiatry at St. Paul’s Hospital, said limited space means that health care workers in emergency rooms and psychiatric wards are constantly triaging people with complex mental-health problems.
November 15, 2025 - 08:00 | Mike Hager, Nancy Macdonald | The Globe and Mail
The head of Alberta's tuberculosis clinic says an outbreak in Edmonton's inner-city is is of little risk to Edmontonians at large.
November 15, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Beverly Glover has been selling fruitcakes and other confections at holiday markets across Calgary for eight years. Now, she's feeling the effects of a seemingly oversaturated market.
November 15, 2025 - 08:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Quebec pediatricians are warning that a new law on physician pay will reduce children’s access to health care by making it more difficult for doctors to see young patients, part of a bruising standoff with the government that has seen hundreds of medical professionals apply to work outside the province and thousands demonstrating against the legislation. Bill 2, as it’s known, moves Quebec from a largely fee-for-service model to a system known as capitation, where general practitioner pay is linked to how many patients they enroll. The government’s stated goal is to get every Quebecker a...
November 15, 2025 - 07:30 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Raphael Lemkin coined the very word “genocide,” but his legacy is now at the centre of a bitter fight over that term: Family members and Jewish leaders say the American institute bearing his name is betraying everything he stood for — by turning the charge of genocide against Israel itself.
“They seem to, what’s the word, be apologetic for what Hamas has done,” Joseph Lemkin, a cousin of Raphael’s, told the National Post, of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. “This is what Raphael Lemkin would stand for? Being an apologist for Hamas? Attacking Israel for defending itself?”
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November 15, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
