Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
‘Too many accidents’: Russian scientist says she faces grave danger if Canada denies refugee bid
This is a story about a Russian scientist and vocal critic of the Putin government who collected evidence of environmental disaster in Siberia and is now seeking asylum in Canada. It’s a convoluted tale that sounds like something out of a Cold War novel. The veracity of some of the events in question are impossible to independently confirm....
Scanlan: Cooking with class — home-cooked meals in a school setting
Nancy Watzenboeck was in Italy when she heard about a topic explored in this space: the lost art of home cooking. “Seven people sent me your article when I was away,” Watzenboeck says. “Everything mentioned in there is kind of what we’re trying to achieve with our classes.” At Earl of March Secondary School in Kanata, Watzenboeck teaches a...
Cohen: Why we ought to worry about democracy’s retreat globally
Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada lives on public platforms. She lectures often, at home and abroad, and collects laurels celebrating her shimmering career (including 38 honorary degrees) like loose change. As a decorated jurist of 42 years, she contemplates law and society as a quotidian challenge. So there she was two weeks...
Kolga: We need to stop Russia’s cyber and disinformation campaign now
This week, the so-called “Five Eyes” security group – Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada – met to talk about cyber attacks, mostly from Russia. The U.S. and U.K. also issued a warning that Russia has been heavily involved in cyber and disinformation attacks. It can no longer be ignored that Canada is one target of...
Glavin: How the West continues to fail the people of Syria
“An individual, a group, a party, or a class that ‘objectively’ picks its nose while it watches men drunk with blood massacring defenceless people is condemned by history to rot and become worm-eaten while it is still alive.” When the young war correspondent Lev Davidovich Bronstein wrote those words in 1912, the individual he had in mind...
Glavin: The West’s Putin problem isn’t going away
Well, it’s a start. After years of deploying the ad-hockery of tepid sanctions and tough talk as the primary responses to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war crimes, his crimes against humanity and his other brazen violations of the United Nations charter in Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine’s Donbass, Crimea and not least,...
Puszkar: Canada isn’t supporting its own international election observers. Let’s fix that
When the Russian presidential election was held last Sunday, nearly 500 international electoral observers were present throughout the country, there as part of an electoral observation mission organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). It is common practice for OSCE member states to contribute to observation of...
Today’s letters: Russia, Doug Ford
The saga of the poisoned ex-spy, and the future of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, caught readers’ attention today. You can write to us too, on these or other topics, at [email protected]. Here are some guidelines to help you get published. — Take united action against Russia Re: Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats over...
NATO general says there hasn’t been any Russian aggression against Baltic States
Perhaps it was because Czech General Petr Pavel, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, is retiring this summer. But the general was surprisingly frank and maybe a little off script when he met with journalists in Washington recently. A standard line used to describe NATO’s mission to the Baltic States is that the troops are in those...
Couple posthumously honoured in Ottawa for Holocaust heroism
Holocaust survivor Andrew Kun and his boyhood friend, Denis Lehotay, shared an emotional embrace at the Israeli embassy on Friday as Lehotay’s parents were honoured posthumously for their Second World War heroism. “They were my saviours,” Kun, 79, told an Ottawa ceremony where Victor and Mary Lehotay were awarded the title, “Righteous Among...
