Section: Macleans (Canada)
Emmanuel Macron is the next president of France
Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 presidential election, attends a campaign rally in Albi, France, May 4, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier – RTS1574A PARIS — French voters elected centrist Emmanuel Macron as the country’s youngest president ever on Sunday, delivering a...
Conrad Black vouches for Donald Trump
Conrad Black speaks in paragraphs. This week, he delivered his most recent spoken-word essay from a bland Toronto videoconferencing centre to an audience of eager parliamentarians in Ottawa. Black, in his appearance at the standing committee on foreign affairs and international trade, offered a subdued but insistent defence of President Donald...
Why military funding in Canada is in such a lousy state
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick “Read @HarjitSajjan speech about the lack of proper funding 4 the Canadian Forces by the previous Government,” Mike Maka, a staffer at the Prime Minister’s Office, tweeted Thursday morning. Kate Purchase, the PM’s communications director, retweeted the message. This might be a good week to pay...
Must-read books for May: saints, soldiers and social media
Russian soldiers march at the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade general rehearsal in Moscow on May 7, 2016. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images) This month in book reviews: A new history of Russian war. A love letter to being alone. A fictionalized reimagining of Susanna Moodie. A searing depiction of the fall of Iraq. Read more...
Canadian jets intercept Russian bombers for the first time since 2014
OTTAWA – Canadian fighter jets have intercepted Russian bombers off Canada’s northern coast for the first time in more than two years, as relations between Moscow and the West continue to worsen. Two CF-18s were scrambled on Thursday after North American early-warning air defences spotted two TU-95 Bear bombers approaching Alaskan and...
These are the Russians sanctioned by the West
Russian businessman and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg (R) and Rosneft’s oil company President Igor Sechin (L) seen during the openings of the 2013 IIHF U18 World Junior Championship on April 18, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) Just over three years have passed since Canada joined the United States and European nations...
Losing the struggle for Europe
People hold placard during a protest in Heroesí square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters) George Szirtes is a celebrated British-Hungarian translator and playwright who...
Putin meets Tillerson amid diplomatic feud over Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File) MOSCOW – Fiercely feuding over Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin met the top American diplomat in Moscow on Wednesday to see if they could rescue relations between the world’s mightiest military powers. Russia’s...
1 Ottawa school + 110 refugee children = new life lessons
Less than a year after Syrian refugee kids began enrolling by the dozen at Ottawa’s Carson Grove Elementary School, Julie Hanna, a Grade 5 teacher there, found herself standing for O Canada with a group of them at an Ottawa Senators game. A local charity had given the school a block of seats for the Sens’ Feb. 9 NHL game against the...
G7 fails to reach consensus on new Russia sanctions
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are expected to call Tuesday for a new international push to end the war in Syria, but are divided on whether to threaten new sanctions or other tough measures to pressure Russia over its support of President Bashar Assad. The G-7 blames Assad’s military for a deadly chemical...
