Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
Pentagon pushing aggressive nuclear strategy to threaten Russia, says Russia’s foreign ministry
Amid the widening U.S.-Russian spat over Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a strongly-worded statement accusing the Pentagon of nurturing an aggressive nuclear strategy threatening Russia, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: The ministry cast a recent speech by U.S. Defense Secretary...
Emma Donoghue on The Wonder, fasting and Irish heritage
There aren’t many authors working Canada who have achieved the kind if international success that is surrounding Emma Donoghue. The London, Ont.-based writer of Irish-Canadian citizenship, is hard at work on a book tour for her latest novel called The Wonder. At the same time, she is basking in the glow of the success of Room and hard at...
John Stetch, on playing solo, and being back in New York City
There isn’t another jazz pianist like the five-time Juno nominee John Stetch. Who else but the Edmonton-raised New Yorker tackles everything from the blues to Chopin to Ukrainian folk to free improvising to TV show themes in the course of a night? A latecomer to his instrument, Stetch, 50, fashioned his own aesthetic, knitting together the...
Book Review: The Wonder is an engrossing psychological thriller that should find its way to the Big Screen
The WonderEmma Donoghue (HarperCollins) American actress Brie Larson won an Oscar this year for her starring role in Room, the movie based on Emma Donoghue’s dark, brilliant novel of the same name. Larson portrayed a young woman who is kidnapped, repeatedly raped by a psychopath and gives birth to a boy in the small room that serves as her...
Dias: Hey Liberals – Here are some tips on getting Canadians engaged in electoral reform
After a summer of hearings by an all-party group of MPs, the action heats up this fall on the federal government’s project to change the way Canadians choose their MPs. Over the next several weeks, the Citizen will feature some of the views of those affected by the electoral reform agenda and some of the expert opinion already presented to...
McKenna: Hillary Clinton’s right wing foreign policy
Notwithstanding the U.S. Democratic party’s sop to socialist Bernie Sanders in the crafting of its left-leaning policy platform, the party’s foreign policy is unapologetically right-of-centre. Of course, this is the same Hillary Clinton who voted in favour of a Congressional resolution backing the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2002. Few...
Dispute with Ukraine prompts Russian Navy to sell some of its frigates to India
The Indian Navy will receive three new Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates from Russia by 2018, the defence publication Janes reports, citing sources. The three frigates had been scheduled to join the Russian Navy’s fleet in the Black Sea. But the dispute with Ukraine left the three frigates without marine-gas turbine engines, Janes pointed...
New commander in place for Canada’s Joint Task Force-Ukraine
The Canadian Forces announced today that the new commander of Joint Task Force-Ukraine, Lieutenant-Colonel Wayne Niven, assumed command from Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Arsenault during a ceremony at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Starychi, Ukraine, as part of Operation Unifier. Op Unifier is Canada’s military training...
The Canadian Army and an African deployment
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is in Africa today on a fact-finding mission to collect information for an upcoming Canadian Forces mission to the region. Sajjan will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda from August 9-16, the DND says. Sajjan will be accompanied by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire...
Diplomatica: Ukrainian ambassador excited about trade deal opportunities
Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Shevchenko says Ukraine’s newly minted free-trade agreement with Canada gives his country a lot of credibility as a would-be trader with other nations. And, he said, it offers exciting opportunities for Canadian companies. “It tells the world that you can come to Ukraine and do business,” he said. Canada will...
