Section: National Newswatch (Canada)
World Powers Call for Calm as Putin Bolsters Crimea Defense
World powers urged Russia and Ukraine to refrain from ratcheting up a confrontation over Crimea as President Vladimir Putin bolstered the disputed peninsula’s military with some of his army’s most advanced air-defense missile systems. The European Union said there was no independent confirmation of claims that Ukrainian agents had...
US election: Trump team ‘must disclose pro-Russia ties’
Donald Trump’s campaign team must disclose all pro-Russia links, Hillary Clinton’s manager has said, following new allegations in the New York Times. The paper said ledgers earmarked $12.7m (£9.8m) in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine to Mr Trump’s campaign head Paul Manafort between...
Logistics woes could strain military deployments
Canada’s military is gearing up for a busy period of overseas deployments but the big task of ferrying troops and supplies to these dispersed missions could stretch defence resources thin, experts say. With ongoing commitments in the Middle East and Ukraine, a newly announced force for Latvia and an expected mission in Africa, providing...
Trump to propose political tests for immigrants
Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to...
Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief
On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kiev is an office used for years by Donald J. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, when he consulted for Ukraine’s ruling political party. His furniture and personal items were still there as recently as May. And Mr. Manafort’s presence remains elsewhere here in the capital,...
After verbal missteps, Trump blames others
ERIE, Pa. — It’s the media’s fault. That’s out of context. Never said it in the first place. Donald Trump’s claim Friday that he was merely being “sarcastic” in accusing President Barack Obama of establishing a terrorist group was his latest attempt to blame others for the uproar over what he says. It’s...
Reality TV created Donald Trump. Next, it will destroy him.
Trump can’t follow a crucial rule of the TV genre that made him popular and it will be his undoing – again. It may be that, looking back on this summer, the days immediately following the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia will be those that we point to as marking a watershed in the 2016 campaign — where the Trump wave finally...
Media Advisory: Remaining Members of Operation UNIFIER Contingent Returning From Ukraine
VALCARTIER, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – Aug. 8, 2016) – Media representative are invited to attend the homecoming of a second, final group of approximately 100 soldiers this Wednesday as they return from the first rotation of Operation (Op) UNIFIER. When: Wednesday, August 10, 2016, at 7:30 pm (scheduled time of aircraft arrival)...
Six stories in the news today, Aug. 5
Six stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: ——— OPENING CEREMONY TONIGHT TO LAUNCH RIO SUMMER GAMES Rosie MacLennan of King City, Ont., will carry the Maple Leaf as more than 300 Canadian athletes stream into Maracana Stadium tonight for the opening ceremonies of the Rio Olympic Games. MacLennan captured Canada’s lone gold medal...
Media Advisory: A First Group of Soldiers from Operation UNIFIER Return From Ukraine
VALCARTIER, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – Aug. 4, 2016) – Media representatives are invited to attend the return of approximately sixty soldiers from Valcartier on Friday, following their participation in the first rotation of Operation (OP) UNIFIER. When: Friday, August 5, 2016, at 6:10 p.m. (arrival of aircraft) Where: …read...
