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Roaming around Canada’s ocean playground
Canada / Travel

Roaming around Canada’s ocean playground

Published by The i Paper (6th August, 2025)

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Canada / Politics / United States

Trump is shattering the political right

Published by The i paper (31st March, 2025) There is not much to celebrate looking around the world today, seeing the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan through […]

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‘Do we need nuclear arms and conscription?’ How some Canadians now fear a US invasion
Canada / United States

‘Do we need nuclear arms and conscription?’ How some Canadians now fear a US invasion

Published by The i paper (13th March, 2025) The comedian Robin Williams used to say that Canadians were the kindest people in the world but had the misfortune to […]

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Canada / Health / Policy / World

‘I was offered assisted dying over cancer treatment’

Published by UnHerd (30th May, 2024) Two years ago, over the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison Ducluzeau started to feel pain in her stomach. At first, she assumed she had […]

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Canada / Drugs / Policy / World

The children killed by fentanyl

Published by UnHerd (13th March, 2024) “I never thought this would happen to Reese, but you have to get it through to people that it can happen to […]

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Canada / Disability / Europe / Health / Holland / Policy / World

Why I believe Dame Esther is profoundly wrong on assisted dying

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd December, 2023) Calls for a change in the law relating to assisted dying rose to a crescendo this week. Yesterday Labour leader […]

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Canada / China / Covid19 / World

Call for probe into ‘Covid’ outbreak at wuhan games 2 months before world was alerted

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the ‘Ground Zero’ of Covid two months before China officially […]

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Canada / Drugs / Health / Policy

Leave us alone or arrest me

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th June, 2018) The desperate mother of a boy suffering from severe epilepsy plans to fly back to Britain tomorrow with a consignment […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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