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Rohingya, Venezuela added to Canada’s G7 international security agenda
OTTAWA — Canada is expanding the focus of the upcoming G7 foreign ministers meeting to include the plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh and the democratic backslide in Venezuela. Peter Boehm, Canada’s chief summit organizer, says those items are being added to the “perennial” international security issues...
Parliament’s secret briefing from CSIS: beware of Russian spies
As allegations arose of outside meddling in the past U.S. election, Canadian spies prepared to warn their politicians that the north of the border is not immune to external interference, and in their hallways of power, too, the smell of foreign spooks lurk. Russia and China could be trying to influence you, to use you and your staff to advance...
Trump v Mueller Who Gets Who First?
The recent raid by the Robert Mueller’s witch hunters on President Trump’s lawyer’s offices shows that we are nearing Act III. The ever expanding search for a crime is reportedly now looking into a campaign donation that was made by a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch to the Trump Foundation in September 2015. The donation was...
If only Stéphane Dion had saved Canada’s foreign policy
“In Geneva and New York, in March, June and September 2016, I attend several bilateral meetings between Dion and about 30 foreign ministers from other countries,” Jocelyn Coulon writes in his curious new book about Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy, Un selfie avec Justin Trudeau (published last week in French only by Québec-Amérique). Dion,...
America’s Shrinking Diplomatic Presence In Russia Comes At A Cost For Both Countries
After the most recent round of diplomatic expulsions, the U.S. embassy in Moscow has lost vital staff — including those working on important bilateral issues, like Syria, Ukraine and arms control. For ordinary Russians, the cuts at the embassy mean it’s virtually impossible to get a U.S. visa in Moscow anymore. …read more Source:...
Neither Washington nor Moscow: 5 reasons progressives must be wary of playing Putin’s game
Imagine a far-right government came to power in the UK and immediately set upon arresting or killing anyone that opposed it. The UK immediately moves to bolster its ideological friends across the continent, ordering City banks to grant financing to people like the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. As part of this nationalist fervour, the UK...
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...
Mark Zuckerberg’s second day of testimony at Congress: Live video
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington, where he’s testifying at the House energy and commerce committee. You can watch a livestream of Zuckerberg’s testimony here at 10 a.m ET. Watch a replay of Zuckerberg’s testimony at a joint meeting of two Senate committees. MORE ABOUT FACEBOOK: Mark Zuckerberg didn’t lie to...
Rio Tinto closely watching industry impact of U.S. sanctions on Russian rival
MONTREAL — The head of Rio Tinto’s aluminum division said Tuesday he is closely watching the industry impact of U.S. sanctions on its Russian rival, Rusal, one of the world’s largest aluminum suppliers. The United States Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against seven leading Russian businessmen, 17 officials and a...
Mark Zuckerberg testifies at Congress: Live video
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is headed to Washington, where he’ll testify before a joint meeting of the Senate judiciary and Senate commerce, science, and transportation committees. You can watch a livestream of Zuckerberg’s testimony at 2:15 p.m. ET. In advance of his appearance, Zuckerberg released this prepared text: We face a...
