Section: Macleans (Canada)
U.S. Secretary of State heads to Russia for meeting with Vladimir Putin
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin on his first visit to the country since relations between Washington and Moscow plummeted to post-Cold War lows amid disagreements over Ukraine and Syria. The State Department said Kerry...
Maclean’s nominated for 19 National Magazine Awards
Maclean’s has been nominated for 19 National Magazine Awards, including Magazine Website of the Year, Tablet Magazine of the Year and Best Single Issue. With 19 nods—one more than the magazine received in each of the past two years. Maclean’s nominations reflect the work of the entire newsroom and its bureaus — especially in and...
Chretien meets Putin in Moscow, in face of Harper isolation: report
Chris Young/CP OTTAWA – The Harper government wants to know what former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien said in his meeting Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. And Defence Minister Jason Kenney said he hopes Chretien used the opportunity to deliver the same message the Conservatives always send these days to the Russian...
Harper’s hockey bet among most popular world leader tweets in 2014
OTTAWA – Plenty of diplomatic deals get done on the margins of global get-togethers, but one conducted on Twitter in 2014 made Prime Minister Stephen Harper a digital star among his fellow world leaders. Harper’s trash-talking tweet to U.S. President Barack Obama about the men’s and women’s hockey finals at the Sochi Olympics...
Parliament’s omission of Srebrenica from genocide motion raises Bosnian eyebrows
OTTAWA – The Bosnian government is calling on the Canadian Parliament to correct its “mistake” of not including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during its Friday recognition of 20th century genocides. A leading Bosnian Muslim organization says it, too, is surprised that the House of Commons did not include the Srebrenica killings during its Friday...
Newsmaker of the day: Jean Chrétien goes to Russia
In this photo from 2003, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with then-prime minister Jean Chretien during a bi-lateral meeting at the Hotel Royal in Evian, France, during a G8 summit.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) The West and Russia are locked in a tense and bitter stand-off, as if the Cold War has been revived. The Crimea Peninsula...
The cost of quakes and conflicts
Today, the biggest stories aren’t in the world of business: as the death toll in Nepal has climbed above 3,700, rescuers are scrambling to reach remote villages where people are still trapped. Even as the death toll continues to climb, it’s clear that the impact on Nepal’s development is going to be huge: a consultancy group...
Nine takeaways from the 2015 federal budget
Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday April 21, 2015. (Adrian Wyld/CP) Finance Minister Joe Oliver delivered, as he’d repeated vowed to, a balanced budget—although his projected $1.4 billion surplus this year relied on cutting the annual contingency cushion...
Why this budget is a 518-page campaign pamphlet
(Michael Peake/Toronto Sun/Postmedia) To call a federal budget a political document is a cliché. What else would the annual unveiling of a set-piece plan for taxing and spending be? But in this election year, with every eye in Ottawa squinting ahead to the Oct. 19 fixed date for Canadians to go to the polls, Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s...
What you need to know about today’s economic news
It’s the day you’ve been waiting for! (Probably.) At last, at long last, it is finally federal budget day. Let the debate – over everything from unemployment, to tax-free savings, to child care benefits, to stimulus – begin (and then we can hash it all over again tomorrow morning.) Wholesale trade numbers will also be out for Canada...
