Section: Macleans (Canada)
Thirty days of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has now been President for 30 eventful days. So much has happened, so quickly, that it has been hard to keep track. Therefore, we have collected the most notable events in one easy to read chart. January 20 President Trump gives unusually dark Inaugural Address that is immediately labeled the “American Carnage Speech” U.S. President...
Donald Trump’s best-ever, not crazy executive order
President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care, Friday, Jan, 20, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) A broken clock is right twice a day. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Not all executive...
Canadian troops prepare to deploy to Ukraine
OTTAWA – Some 200 soldiers from Edmonton are preparing to deploy to Ukraine — though with everyone waiting to see whether the mission there will be extended, exactly how long they will be staying is anyone’s guess. Canada, Britain and the United States have had military trainers in Ukraine since the summer of 2015, after Russia annexed...
Trudeau to meet Angela Merkel in Germany
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with the public in a lecture hall at Health Sciences Building on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Wednesday, January 25, 2017. (Liam Richards/CP) OTTAWA – Next week’s meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be a symbolic affirmation of...
The modern world’s mass violence is almost entirely due to civil wars
A fighter of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fires an anti-aircraft weapon from Tel Tawil village in the direction of Islamic State fighters positioned in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr February 25, 2015. (Rodi Said/Reuters) Political entities have never been free of interior strife, from disputes to riots,...
Asked about Putin, Trump notes U.S. is not ‘so innocent’
Face masks depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump hang for sale at a souvenir street shop in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP/CP) WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he respects Vladimir Putin, and when an interviewer called the Russian leader “a killer,” Trump said...
Canada held off leading UN Mali mission due to Trump
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle OTTAWA – Canada may have missed a chance to provide the commanding officer for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali because it wanted to talk first to the Trump administration, the Canadian Press has learned. The UN put out requests to a handful of top-tier countries in mid-December as the term of the...
Canada mulls more support for Ukraine
(Adrian Wyld/CP) OTTAWA – Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says the federal government is concerned about a new outbreak of fighting in Ukraine and is looking at ways to “improve” Canada’s military support to the country. “I’m looking at the options right now in terms of how we can improve our support, what changes that we need to...
The show under Washington’s big top
Saul Loeb/Getty WASHINGTON – No wonder the Ringling Bros. circus is folding; it can’t compete with the United States Congress. It is early morning in a Senate office building on Capitol Hill in the middle of the second week of America’s brand-new president’s presidency, the day that used to be known as Wednesday. But now, guess...
Trump White House issues muted response to renewed violence in Ukraine
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Wednesday maintained a low-key approach to the latest flare-up of violence in eastern Ukraine, where the government accuses Russian-backed forces of stepping up attacks. The restrained tone may reflect the start of a new U.S. approach to dealing with Russia’s cross-border...
