Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
Crelinsten: The war in social media
In mid-July, a disturbing video surfaced in which a Canadian, Andre Poulin, entreats his fellow citizens to come to Syria to join the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL). It shows Poulin in combat and includes a graphic close-up of his corpse. The recruitment/martyrdom video was distributed by the al-Hayat Media Center, the propaganda...
Ottawa Citizen week in photos, July 19 to 25, 2014
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 Hundreds of motorcycle enthusiasts took part in Grandpa’s Ride, a special motorcycle ride in support of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Gatineau on Saturday, July 19, 2014. READ MORE: Photos and Video: Grandpa’s Ride • This was just one of the happenings in the National Capital area to be...
Tight-fitting bearing aboard Canadian warship costs taxpayers $685,000
A tight-fitting bearing on one of Canada’s warships ended up costing taxpayers $685,000. In October 2012, Royal Canadian Navy officers trying to deal with excessive noise generated by HMCS Toronto at first thought the source was a device called a stern flap, the Citizen reported earlier this week. But the Department of National Defence now...
Chalk River nuclear shipments opposed in Washington
A New York congressman says the proposed trucking of intensely radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River to the United States could cause a “mobile Chernobyl” in the event of a spill while crossing the border at Buffalo. Representative Brian Higgins brought the issue to the floor of the House Thursday, calling on the Department of...
Letter: Don’t pin blame on Putin
Re: Canada and Russia can’t do business now, and Russia bears some responsibility for downing of Malaysian jet, July 21. Eric Morse and John Baird blame the situation in Ukraine entirely on Russian President Vladimir Putin. They ignore the events in Maidan Square where, supported by the losers of the previous election and western powers, a...
Ukraine’s ambassador: ‘It’s unfortunate we have to fight’
The downing of a Malaysian civilian jet focused world attention anew on Russia’s role in the separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, Vadym Prystaiko, talked with Mark Kennedy about the crisis. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Q. It seems like there is chaos. What’s...
Air Canada cancels Tel Aviv flight
Air Canada has cancelled its Tuesday night Toronto to Tel Aviv flight and Wednesday’s return flight from Israel because of risks from the conflict in Gaza. The airline tweeted the news Tuesday afternoon, saying it had cancelled the two flights and will “continue to evaluate going forward & update.” The move follows a...
Cohen: Canada’s absolutist foreign policy
Oh, to be Canada in the world today, the country that is right about everything. If one were looking for a word to describe our foreign policy this anxious summer, it would be absolutist. Our view of the world is black and white, right and wrong. It suggests extra-sensory powers of perception. It is not new to call Canada a moral superpower. The...
Wesley Wark: The intelligence war over Ukraine
The downing of Malaysia Air Lines flight 17 over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine bears some striking resemblances to a similarly shocking downing of another civilian passenger jet 30 years ago. On Sept. 1, 1983, a Korean Air Lines jet, KAL 007, on a flight from New York to Seoul, strayed from its assigned flight path and was shot down by a...
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Hold Putin to account
The downing of the Malaysian passenger plane is a dire lesson for the world: Vladimir Putin’s aggression can reach us. He is responsible for the deaths of the Malaysian flight passengers but so are the rest of us. We have been emboldening him for years by tip-toeing around his aggression in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia. Our...
