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Trump wants former Sen. Dan Coats to be intelligence chief
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named retired Sen. Dan Coats as national intelligence director, saying the former member of the Senate Intelligence Committee was the right person to lead the new administration’s “ceaseless vigilance against those who seek to do us harm.” Trump’s announcement came one...
At least 9 dead after blizzards, icy weather grip parts of Europe
The cold was blamed for five deaths in 24 hours in Poland, while officials in Ukraine reported four people died from effects of the weather. …read more Source: Toronto...
Transnationalism and Italian anarchists in Canada, 1915-1940
Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915-1940 Travis Tomchuk University of Manitoba Press, 2015 There are numerous studies of the left in Canada. These studies range from social-democratic parties like the CCF, various socialists movements, and communists. Curiously there is a lack of studies into anarchist groups...
Canada is great because we don’t brag about being great
This week cemented Canada’s status as an international darling. Our country topped the New York Times’ list of the “52 Places to Go in 2017” and was lauded in the Guardian for being one of the only nations that touts diversity over nativism. In 2016, the media fawned over Justin Trudeau. The Economist ran a cover story titled:...
Republicans support Donald Trump as he questions U.S. intelligence
(Stephen Crowley/The New York Times/Redux) WASHINGTON — A few years ago President Barack Obama came under conservative fire for choosing, at times, to read his daily intelligence briefings, rather than receive them in-person. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was among those piling on. “I have a hard time comprehending that, because the primary job of...
Classified report on Russia, election hacking going to Trump
WASHINGTON — The nation’s top intelligence officials are making their most detailed and persuasive case yet to President-elect Donald Trump that Russia interfered in this year’s U.S. political process. The officials — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey — are...
2017 list of ‘predatory’ science journals published, hundreds claim to be Canadian
The annual list of the world’s shaky and outright fake science journals is out, and Canada figures prominently, with hundreds of new entries calling themselves the Canadian Journal of one thing or another. This is not a category where Canada wants to aspire to global leadership. Each year, Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado updates...
The Latest: Trump set for briefing on Russian hacking probe
WASHINGTON — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 11:15 a.m. The CIA and FBI directors — along with the director of national intelligence — will brief President-elect Donald Trump on the investigation into Russia’s alleged hacking efforts during the 2016 election. Transition officials say CIA Director John Brennan,...
‘Learning how to kill’: Right-wing militia trains Russians to fight the next war — with or without Putin
ST. PETERSBURG — In a half-lit basement on a side street in St. Petersburg, 18 men holding reproduction Makarov pistols were fumbling through an exercise, racking the slides, taking aim and firing. Click, click, click, click, click. Repeat. Denis Gariev, the instructor, called out to pause the training. He was not about to air his political...
Militia training clubs find eager audience among Russian nationalists
The “cadets” listening to Gariev were largely white-collar and self-employed workers from cities across Russia, men motivated less by an ideology than by the siege mentality that has surged here since the wars in Ukraine and Syria. …read more Source: Toronto...
