Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
Hillary Clinton speaking in Ottawa Oct. 6
Hillary Clinton is coming to Ottawa. The consensus frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2016 – and perhaps the next president of the United States – will be in Ottawa Oct. 6 for a luncheon speech at the Ottawa Convention Centre, the Citizen has learned. Clinton will arrive in the nation’s capital at a time of what many observers say...
Morse: Putin’s plunder signals gloves are off in Ukraine
At least now we know what that “humanitarian truck convoy” that broke into Ukraine was really for — plunder. It turns out to have stripped a few defence-production factories in Luhansk and hauled their contents back to Russia. In all the speculation around the move, that had not occurred to anyone at all. But it is nothing new to the Russians,...
Obama tamps down prospect of strikes in Syria
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tamped down the prospect of imminent U.S. military action in Syria on Thursday, saying “we don’t have a strategy yet” for degrading the violent militant group seeking to establish a caliphate in the Middle East. Obama’s decision to speak on the matter Thursday appeared aimed at...
NATO struggles with how to contain Russia
As the situation in Ukraine rapidly deteriorates, NATO’s senior military officers will be looking to the leaders of alliance countries, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to back further action on Russia. NATO believes at least 1,000 Russian soldiers have entered Ukraine. The escalation comes as Harper and other leaders prepare for...
Canada assails Russia for ‘invasion’ of Ukraine
Canada has condemned what it says is an “invasion of eastern Ukraine” by Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation, and says NATO leaders gathering next week will discuss how to ratchet up their response to the escalating crisis. But the federal government did not indicate what further measures it plans beyond sanctions already in place....
Glavin: What’s so wrong with involving diasporas in foreign policy?
Let’s say that the critics are right, that the Conservatives are indeed running this country’s foreign policy in ways that are most sedulously attentive to the sensitivities of Canada’s diverse and sundry ethnic and immigrant communities. Let’s say that the potential votes of 1.3 million Ukrainian-Canadians has been the...
Editorial: Russia’s shame
Many of the images coming out of Eastern Ukraine of late are disturbing, but each is disturbing in its own unique way. There are the shots of burnt out vehicles and apartment buildings scarred by artillery fire, symptoms of otherwise normal lives turned upside-down by conflict. There are the photos of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 passengers...
Tears painted onto Peterson sculpture in Ottawa
The sculpture of Canadian jazz icon Oscar Peterson in downtown Ottawa has been vandalized – or perhaps painted over as a protest – and the National Arts Centre has surveillance footage that it’s handing over to police. Meanwhile, the artist who made the sculpture is thrilled by the suggestion that the act may be one of racial protest....
Letter: The modern face of ALS: #icebucketchallenge
Re: Why dump on the Ice Bucket Challenge?, Aug. 19. On Remembrance Day, Sunday, November 11, 2012, my sister, Suzanna Chudczak, passed away from ALS in Toronto shortly after 10 a.m. She was 46 years old. Beautiful, talented, feisty and independent. 46 years old. Beautiful, talented, feisty and independentI was at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on...
The cheerful gulag survivor: Alexander Topolski, 1923-2014
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Alexander Topolski was just like a lot of 16-year-olds eager to lie about their age and sign up to fight the Nazis. But unlike most war veterans in Canada today, he didn’t join the Canadian Army or the Royal Air Force. Topolski (known in those days by his first name, Boguslaw) lived in eastern Poland....
