Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
How Stephen Harper hopes to win the 2015 election
Ever so slowly, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strategy for winning the 2015 election is becoming clear. It will be built on four pillars: Economic management and tax cuts; a hard-nosed approach to crime; a “principled” foreign policy that stands up to international tyrants and terrorists; and a simple mantra to discredit and...
Glavin: The corruption from Beijing’s dirty money
To comprehend just how far the corrupting rot of dirty Chinese money has spread throughout Canada, uproars unfolding in Calgary, Vancouver and Ottawa at the moment are immediately instructive. Their lessons should also drive home what it was that Anthony Campbell, the former head of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat of the Privy Council...
Glavin: The continuing corruption from Beijing’s dirty money
To comprehend just how far the corrupting rot of dirty Chinese money has spread throughout Canada, uproars unfolding in Calgary, Vancouver and Ottawa at the moment are immediately instructive. Their lessons should also drive home what it was that Anthony Campbell, the former head of the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat of the Privy Council...
Canada is a source for Asian prosperity and stability: Baird
In a “systematically unstable” world, Canada is an island of stability to which Asian countries should look for both economic and geo-political reasons, Foreign Minister John Baird said in a speech late Sunday. “The world’s prosperity now depends on stability in Asia at least as much as it does on a peaceful and...
Photos: News from around the world in photos
This week features a range of photos from the conflict in Gaza, natural disasters in Asia, to festivals around the world on Saturday. We’ve also included a few stunning shots of the diving competition at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and a Chinese flag on fire outside the Chinese consulate in Istanbul. In the dress-up category, we feature...
Colin Kenny: Canada doesn’t have the military to back up its foreign policy
Stephen Harper likes to poke the bear – a.k.a. Vladimir Putin. The Canadian prime minister has slammed Putin’s “expansionism and militarism” and called the Russian president a “throwback” to the evil mindset of the Soviet Union. In terms of the words Harper uses, I appreciate his forthright condemnation of...
Canadian military looking for system to protect Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aircraft and other VIP jets
The Canadian military is looking for an air defence system to protect its VIP aircraft, including the one used by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, from surface-to-air missiles, Murray Brewster of the Canadian Press reports. More from his article: And one of Israel’s top defence contractors, Elbit Systems Ltd., has been working behind the...
Eric Morse: How to help Ukraine
As the USSR unravelled in the hard winter of 1991-92, Quaker Canada, as it was then, decided to make a goodwill donation of a container of instant oatmeal to the orphanages of Belarus. The operation went off without a hitch. The orphanages each sent a manager, an orphan and a truck to receive their portions at the Olympic Sports Complex in Minsk....
Gormley: Rise of the nation, fall of the world?
Whether they’re shooting passenger jets out of the sky along the frayed, grassy fringes of Ukraine, brandishing swords and swastikas in the cluttered immigrant neighbourhoods of Greece, stalking the streets in a mad midnight hunt for Syrian refugees in Bulgaria, railing against the International Criminal Court in Kenya, attacking the...
U.S. releases images it says backs claims Russian rockets being fired into Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States released satellite images Sunday that it says back up its claims that rockets have been fired from Russia into eastern Ukraine and heavy artillery for separatists has also crossed the border. A four-page document released from the State Department seems to show blast marks from where rockets were launched...
