Section: Macleans (Canada)
Russian offer to send water bombers to fight Fort Mac fire in limbo
Russia’s emergency situations minister Vladimir Puchkov heads a conference call with representatives of Egypt and St. Petersburg to discuss the plane crash in Egypt, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko OTTAWA – The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to...
Obama’s royal holiday: Lunch with queen, dinner with princes
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh wave to well-wishers during her 90th birthday celebrations in Windsor, Britain, 21 April 2016. (ANDY RAIN/EPA/Getty Images) LONDON — Most people send a card, call, or post on Facebook for someone’s birthday, but President Barack Obama has gone the extra mile —...
The Iran-Iraq war, continued
September 1980, Abadan, Iran – An Iraqi soldier watches as the Iranian Abadan refinery, located near the Iraqi border, burns. The Abadan oil refinery was under constant fire from the Iraqi air force during the Iran-Iraq conflict. (Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis) Few events in the 20th century were as large and remain as poorly understood by outsiders...
Watchdog: Press freedom declines around the world
WASHINGTON — Media freedom around the world has suffered a “deep and disturbing decline” due to by pressure from governments and businesses, an international media watchdog said Wednesday. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in an annual report that many of the world’s leaders have developed “a paranoia” about journalism and are...
Breaking point: How Europe can still save itself
Daily life in Brussels after terror attacks: Police confront residents of the Muslim district Molenbeek after a police investigation sparked anger between residents and police. (Photograph by Timothy Fadek/Redux) As the list of deadly attacks grows longer, Europe’s great cities have had to improvise an iconography of grief and wariness. A...
Panama Papers: Politicians, celebs deny abuse of offshore accounts
(Arnulfo Franco, AP) BERLIN — The president of Ukraine became the latest prominent politician to deny wrongdoing Wednesday after his name was linked to secretive offshore accounts arranged by a Panama law firm. The revelations have raised suspicion that such offshore entities were set up to avoid taxes, but Petro Poroshenko denied that was the...
Icelandic PM to resign amid offshore holdings controversy
Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson (Bertil Enevag Ericson, TT, File via AP ) REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland’s embattled prime minister has resigned amid a controversy over his offshore holdings, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday as outrage over the accounts roiled the North Atlantic island nation. Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is...
Panama Papers: Nations scramble to contain fallout
(Arnulfo Franco, AP) LONDON — Governments around the world scrambled Tuesday to contain the fallout from the publication of thousands of names of rich and powerful people who conducted offshore financial activity through a Panamanian law firm. China dismissed as “groundless” reports that relatives of current and retired politicians, including...
Ottawa to study gap in uncollected taxes in light of Panama Papers
Canada’s new National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier is sworn-in during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa November 4, 2015. REUTERS/Chris Wattie – RTX1URLS OTTAWA – A senator who has crusaded against tax evasion has released recent correspondence from the revenue minister revealing the government’s plan to determine how much...
Royal Bank says it operates within law after leak of Panama Papers
TORONTO – The Royal Bank of Canada says it operates within the law and has policies to prevent tax evasion after reports said it used the Panamanian law firm whose leaked documents are said to reveal the use of offshore tax havens. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists worked with hundreds of journalists to analyze 11.5...
