Section: iPolitics (Canada)
Trudeau defends NATO mission, slams Russia’s ‘illegitimate’ actions
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with the media following the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland Saturday July 9, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld WARSAW, Poland — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government was “extremely enthusiastic” about helping NATO in Eastern Europe, and that a display of force is essential to make sure...
Latvian mission to include frigate, six CF-18: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures to photographers as he speaks with Latvian Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis between sessions at the NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland Saturday July 9, 2016. Trudeau says the Canadian mission to Latvia represents the country’s largest military presence in Europe in more than a decade, and that the Canadian...
Trudeau pledges troops, frigate and jets to NATO’s standoff with Russia
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his son Xavier disembark a government plane as they arrive in Warsaw, Poland, Friday July 8, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld WARSAW, Poland — Canada is deploying what the Liberal government describes as its largest sustained military contingent to Europe in more than a decade, as NATO prepares for a...
Trudeau rattles a sabre at Russia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan Canada’s planned deployment of a battlegroup to Eastern Europe to confront a newly belligerent Russia goes a long way toward overturning the narrative that sees Prime Minister...
In Warsaw, Trudeau to stress Canada’s NATO support beyond numbers
As NATO meets in Warsaw this week in a capital heavy with post-Cold War symbolism, Justin Trudeau will be armed with a response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s vehement plea to Canada’s Parliament that “NATO needs more Canada.” In a technical briefing Wednesday, senior government officials told reporters that Trudeau will stress that...
Putin wants to work with Liberal government
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he wants to work with Canada’s new Liberal government to improve relations, but he won’t say how. Putin said Friday relations between Canada and Russia have a chance to be re-established after the new prime minister came to power, as he recalled meeting Justin Trudeau at last fall’s G20...
Children of the gun
A young Syrian girl named Miriam was released recently after having been held captive by ISIS for more than a year. The news didn’t make headlines here. She was one of 253 people — half of them children — who were kidnapped on Feb. 23, 2015, from her village in the Hasaka region of Syria. …read more Source:...
Canadian forces to train Ukrainian soldiers to investigate airline crashes
Canadian military trainers are developing a program to train Ukrainian soldiers to conduct flight safety investigations — a move that comes almost two years after the deadly crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over a contested region of Ukraine. “They’ll learn how to conduct investigations for flight accidents. It’s actually...
Does this woman have to die before the West confronts Putin?
Two years ago, Canadian news broadcasts were saturated with vivid images of the Euromaidan “Revolution of Dignity” — student protesters by the hundreds of thousands, occupying downtown Kyiv and paralyzing the political processes of their government. Their demands were simple: democratic reform, an end to corruption and European integration. Those...
What Ukraine needs now
Two years ago, the people of Ukraine toppled the criminal and tyrannical regime of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych after police opened fire on protestors in Kyiv’s Independence Square. Over 100 people were murdered for making one simple demand of their government — that Ukraine’s citizens be treated with dignity. Those...
