Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
MPs, minister prepare for emergency debate over US travel ban
After spending much of Monday in a collective state of shock and sorrow over the attack on a Quebec City mosque, MPs from all sides of the House will get the opportunity to publicly air their thoughts and concerns over another issue that has been topping the political headlines in recent days: the temporary but sweeping crackdown on international...
Obama’s presidency saw the end of American power
“Yes, we can,” they chanted in unison. To hear Barack Obama speak, or just to catch a glimpse of him, roughly 200,000 people had turned out that day, July 24, 2008, filling the broad, tree-lined avenue of Strasse des 17 Juni, in Berlin’s glorious Tiergarten Park. It was an audience three times the size of any crowd Obama had drawn back in...
Will Sajjan and Trudeau go back on their promise of Canadian support for Ukraine?
Ukraine’s envoy has told the Canadian Press news agency that his country is growing concerned about whether Canada will continue its future military support to his country to help it deal with Russian aggression. The Canadian Forces has 200 military personnel providing training to their Ukrainian security counterparts. The mission will...
‘Trailblazer’ on Ottawa food scene John Taylor sells Old Ottawa South restaurant, going west
A celebrated chef who shaped the Ottawa food scene over two decades has sold his restaurant in Old Ottawa South to decamp to British Columbia. Taylor’s Genuine Kitchen and Wine closed Sunday, the day John Taylor announced that he’d sold the business to Tony Irace, a longtime server and sommelier at Taylor’s defunct Domus Cafe....
Freeland’s complicated relationship with Russia might work in our favour
Chrystia Freeland’s appointment as foreign affairs minister has to be warmly welcomed, but comes with a little anti-Russian baggage. Weighing what is to like in her appointment against the Russian baggage is easy, but needs to be clearly set out. A woman foreign affairs minister – all to the good and too rare in Canadian history. A minister...
Trudeau shuffles his cabinet while the world burns
“We are always going to be expected by Canadians to adjust and to put our best team forward in dealing with the important issues that matter to Canadians,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained following the restructuring of his cabinet at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, “whether it be the relationship with the United States, whether it be the...
Lack of diplomacy no barrier for Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s new top diplomat,
OTTAWA — At a glance, Chrystia Freeland’s background in deconstructing the world’s super-wealthy and pugnaciously critiquing Russia’s president wouldn’t appear to be an ideal resume for the job as Canada’s top diplomat dealing with Donald Trump’s White House. But as the former journalist was elevated to the...
Canada is great because we don’t brag about being great
This week cemented Canada’s status as an international darling. Our country topped the New York Times’ list of the “52 Places to Go in 2017” and was lauded in the Guardian for being one of the only nations that touts diversity over nativism. In 2016, the media fawned over Justin Trudeau. The Economist ran a cover story titled:...
2017 list of ‘predatory’ science journals published, hundreds claim to be Canadian
The annual list of the world’s shaky and outright fake science journals is out, and Canada figures prominently, with hundreds of new entries calling themselves the Canadian Journal of one thing or another. This is not a category where Canada wants to aspire to global leadership. Each year, Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado updates...
Russia waiting for friendly Trump to take power, Trump praises Putin
Stung by new punishments, Russia is looking straight past President Barack Obama to Donald Trump in hopes the president-elect will reverse the tough U.S. stance toward Moscow of the last eight years, the Associated Press reports. More from the Associated Press article: In a stunning embrace of a longtime U.S. adversary, Trump is siding with...
