Section: National Post (Canada)
Charles Krauthammer: America’s belated show of strength to Putin’s Russia
“The most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” President Obama called it. A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps, but it was still an achievement: Last week’s NATO summit in Warsaw ordered the deployment of troops to Eastern Europe, the alliance’s most serious response yet to Russia’s...
Matthew Fisher: Trudeau the reluctant cold warrior salutes Canadian soldiers at close of Ukrainian visit
YAVORIV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s whirlwind five-day visit to Eastern Europe ended Tuesday amid the staccato bursts of assault weapons and heavy machine guns and the thwack and smoke from an explosion as Ukrainian troops accompanied by Canadian mentors from Quebec’s storied Royal 22nd Regiment — the Vandoos — charged...
Trudeau condemns Russia’s annexation of Crimea, while vowing ‘Canada will always stand by Ukraine’
KYIV — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his nine-year-old son, Xavier, making his public debut overseas, spent much of Monday visiting memorials of Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s, Nazi atrocities against Ukrainians during the Second World War and the slaughter in 1941 of 33,770 Jews by Hitler’s forces at Babi Yar. But...
Trudeau won’t say if Canada will keep sending military training troops to Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is standing by Ukraine in its struggle against Russia, but he won’t be pinned down on whether it will continue supplying troops to train Ukraine’s military. During a joint news conference Monday in Kiev to mark the signing of a Canada-Ukraine free trade deal, Ukrainian...
A world-class kleptocrat is hiding in plain sight as a stay-at-home dad in America
On any given day, Pavlo Lazarenko looks like an ordinary stay-at-home dad, shuttling his three young children to school and waiting for his wife to return home from work. Perhaps he’ll run an errand or two. But Lazarenko, it turns out, is a world-class kleptocrat hiding in plain sight in suburban America. He is the former prime minister of...
Canadian soldiers pass on life-saving tips to Ukrainian troops fighting Russian-backed separatists
YAVORIV, Ukraine — Seven thousand kilometres from Quebec, but only 10 hours by road from the bloody battlefields of eastern Ukraine, about 200 soldiers mostly from Canada’s storied Royal 22nd Regiment, the Vandoos, are helping to prepare Ukrainian infantry, medics and combat engineers to defend their country against Russian-backed...
Trudeau to sign trade deal with Ukraine during visit next month, ‘to strengthen democracy, growth’
OTTAWA — Six years of negotiations are expected to culminate in the signing of a long-awaited free trade deal between Canada and Ukraine when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the country next month. On Monday, Trudeau told a Canada-Ukraine business forum in Toronto that he will be in Ukraine on July 11-12 after attending the NATO...
Urging Canada to join NATO forces in Baltics, Latvia says it would send ‘very strong message’ to Russia
OTTAWA — Comparisons with Cold War Berlin were invoked this week, as Latvian and Canadian officials discussed ways to bolster NATO’s military presence in eastern Europe as a check against Russian aggression. Latvia’s state secretary for foreign affairs, Andrejs Pildegovics, met with Canadian counterparts Thursday in Ottawa to...
Kelly McParland: NATO request puts Liberal support for peacekeeping to the test
Canada has been asked to contribute up to 1,000 troops to a new force in eastern Europe as a warning that the NATO alliance will not tolerate any aggression against western allies by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S., Britain and Germany have each promised 1,000 troops; Canada would be the fourth partner. This should be the easiest of...
Liberals ‘considering’ NATO request to send 1,000 Canadian troops to Eastern Europe
OTTAWA — Eastern European NATO allies have been pressing Canada to deploy up to 1,000 soldiers into the region to bolster the alliance’s presence amid continued concerns about Russian aggression. The Liberal government says it is looking “actively considering options.” However, Eastern European diplomats say Ottawa has been giving...
