Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
Letters: Sometimes force is necessary; and other views
Sometimes force is necessary Re: Stephen Harper, warmonger, March 21. Joseph Heath’s opinion piece assumes Prime Minister Stephen Harper is operating in a vacuum and not a world where cause and effect, action and reaction exist. Harper did not create ISIL or cause the Russians to annex Crimea or assist in the dismemberment of Ukraine. What...
Letters: Dear motorists: Please heed cyclists; and other topics
Dear motorists: Please heed cyclists It is that time of year when we cyclists start popping up on a street near you, possibly the one you are driving on. Please be careful. We are people too. We are productive members of society. We may even be someone you know. We are doctors, lawyers, programmers, salespeople, labourers, grandmothers and...
Second Mistral-class ship completes first sea trial but no delivery to Russia
The Sevastopol, the second of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers built for Russia, returned to harbor Friday after a first sea trial, writes my Defense News colleague Pierre Tran. Here is more of what Pierre Tran writes: The next sea trial is due in a few weeks and will last a week, the spokesman said. Meanwhile, on the first ship, the...
The Soros principle: A billionaire’s plan to change the world
At 84, George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire, has certainly made his mark on the business world. He is the man who is said to have battered the Bank of England when he shorted the pound and sparked a currency crisis in the 1990s. But he is more than his investment funds. Soros is also a philanthropist with a huge agenda. Through his Open...
Heath: Stephen Harper, warmonger
No one should have been surprised when Stephen Harper announced that the Canadian combat mission against ISIS will be renewed, or perhaps even expanded, next week. After all, the Prime Minister is a warmonger. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I’m just observing a fact. Harper is pro-war. He thinks that war is something worth doing. He...
Retired U.S. General: U.S. should “start killing Russians” in Ukraine
The views of retired U.S. Army Maj.-Gen. Robert Scales, former commandant of the U.S. Army War College, seem to be getting a lot of play in Russia (not so much from what I can see in western media outlets but that might be because Scales was commenting on Fox News) Scales told Fox News March 10 about what he thinks the U.S. should do in response...
Ottawa neurosurgeon leads “revolution” in brain surgery
Growing up in Winnipeg’s gritty North End, Howard Lesiuk liked to fix things: shortwave radios, old cars. His Uncle Phil taught him to make and repair cabinets. “I’ve always been a hands-on sort of guy,” says Dr. Lesiuk, who, as one of Ottawa’s top neurosurgeons, now repairs brains. Lesiuk is the director of cerebrovascular...
DND says plane flew over Canadian frigate; no details on alleged faceoff with Russian warships
The Defence Department now says there was a low-level flight by a Russian plane over a Canadian frigate in the Black Sea but it can’t provide any details to back up the Conservative government’s contention that Russian warships confronted HMCS Fredericton. NATO officials maintain there was no such confrontation and Russian warships...
NATO disputes Conservative claim that Russians confronted Canadian warship
The Conservative government has ratcheted up its war of words over Ukraine, with the parliamentary defence secretary claiming Russian warships confronted a Canadian frigate in the Black Sea. But NATO officials say no such thing happened. James Bezan, parliamentary secretary to Minister of National Defence Jason Kenney, told the House of Commons...
The Gargoyle: Polls, plumbers and non-musical ministers
From plumbers in Parliament, to linguistic lapses, to political prize-winners, the Gargoyle gathered many an odd tale this week. Here’s a snapshot: You can’t handle the truth Sometimes you’re better off not knowing. Just ask the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv. This past January, the embassy reached into a little-known pot of money...
