Section: National Newswatch (Canada)
Bush in Germany says Putin, a ‘bully,’ only understands force as deterrent in Eastern Europe
BERLIN – The United States should consider sending thousands more U.S. troops along with NATO forces to Eastern Europe to match the strength Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing along the former Soviet bloc nations’ eastern border, Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Wednesday.Capping the two-day German leg of a...
Harper leads world stage again with Putin talk
The more he articulates it, the more Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s position on Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t just sensible. It’s an argument to rethink the entire raison d’etre of international gatherings. In March 2014, the G8 assembly of countries became the G7 when they decided to boot Russia out for its...
Stephen Harper begins Poland visit in Warsaw as European trip continues
WARSAW, Poland – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is kicking off the next leg of his European travel today in Warsaw, Poland.Harper is to take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He then has meetings planned with Polish Prime Minister Eva Kopacz and President Bronislaw Komorowski.Poland is a major European ally...
Harper wanted Russia out of the old G8 even before Ukraine crisis struck
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he wanted Russia kicked out of the old G8 even before it breached Ukraine’s borders last year. Harper says Russia simply does not share the values of the G7 members. He says the newly reconstituted G7 is doing well after completing its second summit without Putin and he doesn’t want him back. Harper...
Stephen Harper renews attack on Russia’s Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has renewed his condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as the G7 summit seemed to balk at Ukraine’s plea for weapons in its struggle with Russian-backed separatists. Harper told U.S. television channel CNBC in an interview that Putin does not share Western values and has “no place” at the...
Mulcair urges Harper to seek papal apology for abuse at residential schools
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being urged to take advantage of an audience with Pope Francis this week to seek a formal apology for the role the Roman Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school disgrace.NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says the timing of Harper’s visit to the Vatican is fortuitous, coming just one...
Harper pushes Canada-EU trade pact at opening day of G7 leaders’ summit
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany – Prime Minister Stephen Harper used Sunday’s opening of the G7 summit to push European leaders to ratify the comprehensive Canada-EU free trade agreement.Harper’s office said he talked up the trade pact at the G7’s first working session of the day on the fragile global economy.”Prime Minister...
Canada should help Ukraine by encouraging constitutional reform: Russian ambassador
While Ukrainians were asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper for help with visas and weapons this weekend, Russia’s ambassador to Canada offered starkly different advice for the role Canada should play in the European conflict. “I think what the West could do, and Canada could do in particular, is to urge President [Petro] Poroshenko to enter...
Ukraine crisis to dominate G7 summit in Germany
Leaders from the world’s richest countries are due to attend the annual G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps in Germany. They are expected to use the meeting to maintain diplomatic pressure on Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Greece’s debt crisis and how to tackle global warming will also be on the agenda. Russia has been...
Five things about Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the G7 summit in Germany
Here are five things to know about the G7 leaders’ summit that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be attending Sunday and Monday in Germany. 1. Harper’s host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is placing the fight against climate change at the top of her sweeping agenda. Merkel, with the help of France, wants to push the idea of a...
