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Today’s letters: Russia, Doug Ford
The saga of the poisoned ex-spy, and the future of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, caught readers’ attention today. You can write to us too, on these or other topics, at [email protected]. Here are some guidelines to help you get published. — Take united action against Russia Re: Britain expels 23 Russian diplomats over...
Donald Trump failed a simple test on his Russian ties
Donald Trump’s sudden Twitter firing of Rex Tillerson on Tuesday is the moment that it became impossible to maintain the fiction that Trump is not in some way in league with Vladimir Putin. We can’t know whether Putin has, as reported in the Steele dossier, disgusting kompromat that could bring Trump low, or whether Trump has...
Trump failed a simple test on his Russian ties
Donald Trump’s sudden Twitter firing of Rex Tillerson on Tuesday is the moment that it became impossible to maintain the fiction that Trump is not in some way in league with Vladimir Putin. We can’t know whether Putin has, as reported in the Steele dossier, disgusting kompromat that could bring Trump low, or whether Trump has...
Ex-Trump campaign chairman asks judge to dismiss charges
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss some of the criminal charges he faces related to his foreign lobbying work on behalf of Ukrainian interests. In a series of motions, attorneys for Paul Manafort attacked the case brought against him in Washington, arguing that special...
Farewell to Chrystia Freeland’s man in Washington
Everything is flux and adaptation. Nothing is forever. As Harry Truman is thought to have said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” (He probably never said it, because he wasn’t fond of dogs.) So there’s every reason to believe Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s resourceful foreign minister, will find other ways to advance...
NATO general says there hasn’t been any Russian aggression against Baltic States
Perhaps it was because Czech General Petr Pavel, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, is retiring this summer. But the general was surprisingly frank and maybe a little off script when he met with journalists in Washington recently. A standard line used to describe NATO’s mission to the Baltic States is that the troops are in those...
Former Trump campaign chief faces arraignment in Virginia
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is scheduled for arraignment in a northern Virginia courthouse on charges including tax evasion and bank fraud. The grand jury indictment in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, accuses Paul Manafort of hiding from the Internal Revenue Service tens of millions of...
Has Donald Trump caused an existential crisis for political satire?
Director Armando Iannucci from the film ‘The Death of Stalin’ poses for a portrait in the YouTube x Getty Images Portrait Studio at 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2018 in Park City, Utah. (Robby Klein/Getty Images) In his non-fiction book The Gulag Archipelago, the dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn paints a scene wherein a...
Jason Kenney has everything to lose
Jason Kenney at the Manning Networking Conference 2018 in Ottawa. (Dave Chan) The next chapter of Jason Kenney’s life began when the last one decisively ended, on federal election night 2015. Dozens of Conservatives held an impromptu wake for their government at the James Joyce Irish Pub in downtown Calgary. It was a favourite...
Canada to bring up North Korea, Venezuela and Ukraine at Munich Conference
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has a long list of world crises she would like to discuss with her counterparts at the Munich Security Conference in Germany this weekend, according to Canadian officials. The North Korean nuclear crisis, the situation in Venezuela, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its continued support for...
