Section: Metro News (Canada)
Stephen Harper meets with Ukrainian PM
CHELSEA, Que. – Stephen Harper is set to send another signal of support to the embattled government of Ukraine as he meets with that country’s prime minister. Harper and Arseniy Yatsenyuk are expected to sign a trade deal, although details of the agreement have not yet been divulged. A spokesman for the prime minister says Harper sees the...
Ukrainian PM’s visit with Stephen Harper steeped with politics?
OTTAWA – Ukraine’s prime minister arrives in Ottawa today for what’s likely to be the last visit by a foreign government leader ahead of this fall’s federal election. Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be meeting with Arseniy Yatsenyuk to sign a trade deal, following Yatsenyuk’s visit to the U.S. Monday. The stakes, for...
Ukraine PM says reforms continue despite ‘lunatic’ lawmakers
WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s prime minister pushed back Monday against a pair of forces threatening to undermine his fragile government, likening members of Ukraine’s parliament to “lunatics” while defending a nationalist militia that is locked in a standoff with police. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in Washington for meetings with top...
Canada funds ballot box training in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine – Canada has joined its allies in dusting off a Cold War playbook to push back against Russian influence in Ukraine, but the advance of democratic ideals is fraught with contradictions and qualifications. The Harper government is pouring millions of dollars into a series of democracy-promoting initiatives and programs intended to...
Ukrainian PM to visit Canada for talks
OTTAWA – The prime minister of Ukraine will be in Ottawa this week for talks with Harper government. Arseniy Yatsenyuk arrives Tuesday for talks that will focus on east European country’s attempts at economic and government reform. A statement from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office says it’s an opportunity to reaffirm the...
Canada’s embassy in Ukraine used as pawn
KYIV, Ukraine – It was one of those events that simply appeared and disappeared during the bloody, swift-moving events of Ukraine in the winter revolution of 2014. Canada’s embassy in Kyiv was used as a haven for several days by anti-government protesters during the uprising that toppled the regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych. The...
Gunman kills three postal workers in Ukraine, steals $115,000
MOSCOW – An unidentified gunman shot and killed three postal workers Friday as they were transporting money in eastern Ukraine, escaping with the equivalent of $115,000, police said. Police said a manhunt was on for the gunman who attacked the workers in the government-held city of Kharkiv, stealing nearly 2.5 million hryvnas. The police...
Corrupt Kyiv traffic cops given the boot
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s interior ministry is disbanding Kyiv’s often corrupt traffic police detachment Saturday and installing a new force — with help from Canada, the U.S., Japan and Australia. Canada’s ambassador to the embattled country says the pilot program will be rolled out nationwide, and doesn’t believe putting...
Canada to help evacuate wounded in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine – Defence Minister Jason Kenney says the medical training component of Canada’s military assistance mission in Ukraine will make a real and substantive difference for the country’s battered army. Kenney says there will be a particular focus on improving casualty evacuation, which is vital in the survival rates of wounded...
Five things about defector Illya Bogdanov
KYIV, Ukraine – The ghosts of the Cold War are everywhere these days in Ukraine, but sometimes they can appear anew as flesh and blood. Many in the West may have forgotten, but defectors were a key propaganda prize through the long standoff with the old Soviet Union. Ukrainian officials may be hard-pressed these days to compete with the onslaught...
