Section: National Newswatch (Canada)
Pressure builds on Trudeau government to launch Ukraine peacekeeping mission
The Trudeau government is facing increasing pressure to take a leadership role in war-torn eastern Ukraine by spearheading a UN peacekeeping mission to help stabilize the conflict between Kiev and Russian-backed belligerents. Growing support within Canada for such a deployment comes as the Liberals prepare to unveil a pledge to commit troops to...
Newly reported contacts between Russia and Team Trump: An updated list
WASHINGTON — One after another, details keep emerging of previously undisclosed contacts between Russians and current and former aides to President Donald Trump. The latest arrived in a massive weekend leak of financial papers. There have been a flurry of others over the past week, just as the criminal probe investigating possible collusion...
Ukraine and Google playing Justin Trudeau’s ‘sock game’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is well known for his style, and his colourful – sometimes themed – socks. When Ukraine’s trade representative, Nataliya Mykolska, visited Mr Trudeau she took the opportunity to contribute to his collection of – what broadcasting platform Ukrinform has called – “unusual socks”. …read more Source:...
Trump-Russia probe charges: 2 not guilty pleas, 1 guilty
WASHINGTON — A former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians, special counsel Robert Mueller said Monday, while Trump’s former campaign manager and that official’s business partner pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States...
Trump-Russia probe charges: 2 not guilty pleas, 1 guilty
WASHINGTON — A former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians, special counsel Robert Mueller said Monday, while Trump’s former campaign manager and that official’s business partner pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States...
Belatedly, Trump admin finishes list of off-limits Russians
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration gave Congress on Thursday a list of Russian officials who may soon become off-limits to anyone who wants to avoid U.S. sanctions, as criticism mounted over the administration’s tardy execution of new penalties on Moscow. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO chief and adviser to Ukraine’s leader,...
Prince Harry praises athletes for service as he helps kick off Invictus Games
TORONTO — The Invictus Games got off to a rollicking start Saturday as scores of war-wounded athletes marched, limped or wheeled their way to thumping martial music, dazzling lights and supportive cheers into a downtown Toronto arena, where they heard Prince Harry praise them for the courage that had brought them to the event he co-founded. The...
Free speech, free trade and failure: how federal politics touched us this week
OTTAWA — The winner of the first week back from summer on Parliament Hill? A banner-dragging aircraft-for-rent. On Monday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hired one to welcome MPs back to Ottawa for the fall session, pulling a giant banner that denounced Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s tax proposals as too anti-business. Not to be...
Government will move forward with process to put Ukraine on weapons export list: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadian government will place Ukraine on a list of countries to which it will permit certain weapons exports. Trudeau made the comments after a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Toronto on Friday. Trudeau says the government has begun to move forward with the lengthy process that would...
Justin Trudeau backs UN peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, but stops short of offering to join in
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed support for a potential United Nations peacekeeping mission in war-torn Ukraine on Friday, but stopped short of committing Canadian troops. “I think this is a situation where there is definitely a very strong potential role for peacekeepers, and that’s something we look forward to having discussions...
