We've heard about the threat that United States tariffs pose to Canadian economic security. But a different kind of insecurity now looms with new leadership from our southern neighbors: insecurity in global health.

Every day, an estimated 400,000 people cross the Canada-U.S. border, the largest land border in the world. And there are about 800,000 Canadian citizens living in the United States. All this means the infectious disease threat could be even more pressing for Canadians.

Those working at the World Health Organization had been expecting the worst — but U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order still stung. Dr. Prabhat Jha, a professor of Global Health with the University of Toronto,

TORONTO — A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are “devastated” by President Donald Trump’s executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency. Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this week for meetings about tuberculosis.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw from the World Health Organization carries significant consequences for Canada and other countries, as it would weaken global health surveillance ...

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Donald Trump’s re ascendancy to presidency will doubtless mark a return to much of the frivolity that he introduced in 2016. The caveat will be chapter two of the upheaval brought about to diplomacy,

Elise Stefanik is facing senators for her confirmation hearing to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The ideological divide between Republicans and Democrats over the utility of global organizations has taken center stage.

President Donald Trump (L), First Lady Melania Trump (2nd L), Vice President J.D. Vance (2nd R) and Second Lady Usha Vance (R) attend the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, on Jan. 21, 2025.

Trump returned to the topic of U.S. territorial expansion during Saturday's rally in Las Vegas, which was an opportunity to express gratitude for the electoral victory in Nevada.

Donald Trump never ceases to surprise. During a Saturday rally in Nevada, the American President stated that the United States "might be an enlarged country pretty soon." Previously, Trump's comments included the desire to take control over Greenland and the Panama Canal,