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Why Trump must stop being Trump to survive
Jul31

Why Trump must stop being Trump to survive

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in July in Germany.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)John Colarusso, McMaster University Donald Trump’s supporters have a new rallying cry in defence of the American president: “Let Trump be Trump!” I am a U.S.-born linguist, an expert in Caucasian languages and...

Putin To Expel 755 U.S. Diplomatic Staff From Russia In Response To New Sanctions
Jul30

Putin To Expel 755 U.S. Diplomatic Staff From Russia In Response To New Sanctions

Russia’s Foreign Ministry had signaled on Friday that U.S. diplomats would be ordered out of the country, as retaliation after new sanctions on Russia were approved by Congress this week. (Image credit: Adam Berry/Getty Images) …read more Source:...

Rolling Stone’s latest cover article on Trudeau is barefaced propaganda
Jul29

Rolling Stone’s latest cover article on Trudeau is barefaced propaganda

By now, you’ve probably heard about the saccharine 6,660-word hagiography on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that was just published in Rolling Stone. Immediately following the article’s publication on July 26, many of Canada’s leading pundits and journalists exploded with territorial incredulity, pedantically noting that...

Government strips ex-Nazi squad member Oberlander of citizenship again: lawyer
Jul28

Government strips ex-Nazi squad member Oberlander of citizenship again: lawyer

TORONTO — A lawyer for a former Nazi death squad member says the Canadian government has once again stripped the 93-year-old man of his citizenship. Ronald Poulton says it is the fourth time the government has taken the step against Helmut Oberlander, and the Waterloo, Ont., resident plans to challenge the decision. Poulton says Oberlander has...

Trump transgender military ban at odds with allies like Canada
Jul27

Trump transgender military ban at odds with allies like Canada

Canadian Army instructors discuss mechanized infantry defence tactics with their Ukrainian Armed Forces colleagues during Exercise RAPID TRIDENT in Starychi, Ukraine on June 30, 2016. (Joint Task Force Ukraine) OTTAWA – The Canadian Forces says it is pressing ahead with improvements to its transgender policy, even as U.S. President Donald Trump...

Global Affairs pledges to defend Ukraine as it reviews new U.S. sanctions
Jul26

Global Affairs pledges to defend Ukraine as it reviews new U.S. sanctions

Global Affairs is reviewing draft U.S. sanctions on Russia to see if they’ll have any impact on Canadian businesses, said a spokesperson for Minister Chrystia Freeland. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a wide-ranging bill targeting Russia, North Korea and Iran on Tuesday. The bill has offended the European Union because of business...

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry duped by Russian duo impersonating Ukraine leader
Jul26

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry duped by Russian duo impersonating Ukraine leader

Perry spoke to the pair about the Paris climate agreement and the possibility of using pig manure as a power source in a 22-minute conversation. …read more Source: Toronto...

Glavin: Has Canada just given up – and decided to join with Beijing?
Jul26

Glavin: Has Canada just given up – and decided to join with Beijing?

“There is a saying that if you can’t beat them, join them.” That was the telling choice of words former Liberal cabinet minister Martin Cauchon settled on back in November 2011 in greeting the news that Huawei Canada, the subsidiary of an opaquely governed Chinese telecommunications conglomerate long encumbered by its reported links to...

How Putin used propaganda to deftly turn Russians against Ukrainians
Jul26

How Putin used propaganda to deftly turn Russians against Ukrainians

Vladimir Putin’s decade-long media campaign turned Russians against Ukrainians and Ukraine itself before he annexed Crimea in 2014. In my book Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime, I explore how Putin successfully fanned the flames of ethnic Russian nationalism, turning Russians against both the Ukrainian...

Russian comics dupe U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry with prank call

Rick Perry optimistically discussed expanding American coal exports to Ukraine and other energy matters during a lengthy phone call this month with a Russian prankster. …read more Source: Global...