Canada’s political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the “51st state,” as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched.

What drives the United States’ bold geopolitical ambitions toward Greenland and Canada? It boils down to economic and national security.

The newly inaugurated president held forth on multiple foreign policy issues on Saturday, from Greenland to Canada to the war between Israel and Hamas.

To the Editor; I was delighted to learn from an article ("If Trump seizes Greenland, Redditors say Denmark should take over Maine") about the possibility that Maine might become part of Denmark or, alternatively,

Trump wants to take Greenland from Denmark, make Canada the 51st state and retake the Panama Canal, threats reflecting his view that might makes right.

A lot of nations have experienced relatively long periods of greatness and some even a return to greatness. Let’s find a way of improving the lives of all Americans while we are at it. Maybe even a program to provide health insurance to all Americans similar to that of a congressman.

Denmark’s former representative to Greenland has claimed US President Donald Trump needs permission from a third country if he is to fulfill his pledge to take over the self-governing island. Tom Høyem,

It may be too extreme for Canada or Denmark to view the U.S. as an enemy in the wake of Trump annexation threats, but the line between enmity and amity is currently blurred.

New Brunswick RCMP say one person has died after a truck left the roadway and struck a pedestrian on Friday in New Denmark, N.B.

Mr. Trump is tapping into this social and intellectual history, promising to “pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars” — even “to Mars.” But he does so in that witchy style he has perfected, which makes conventional ideas sound outlandish.

With their loose talk about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal, Trump and his followers show they don’t get what we get from those relationships.

Denmark would need to offer Greenland to the UK first before the island could be sold to Donald Trump, it has emerged. An agreement dating back to 1917 means Britain has first refusal on the Arctic island if current owners Denmark decide to sell it, according to Tom Høyem, Copenhagen’s representative in Greenland from 1982 to 1987.