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Six stories in the news today, Aug. 5
Six stories in the news today from The Canadian Press: ——— OPENING CEREMONY TONIGHT TO LAUNCH RIO SUMMER GAMES Rosie MacLennan of King City, Ont., will carry the Maple Leaf as more than 300 Canadian athletes stream into Maracana Stadium tonight for the opening ceremonies of the Rio Olympic Games. MacLennan captured Canada’s lone gold medal...
Media Advisory: A First Group of Soldiers from Operation UNIFIER Return From Ukraine
VALCARTIER, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – Aug. 4, 2016) – Media representatives are invited to attend the return of approximately sixty soldiers from Valcartier on Friday, following their participation in the first rotation of Operation (OP) UNIFIER. When: Friday, August 5, 2016, at 6:10 p.m. (arrival of aircraft) Where: …read...
Soldiers from Edmonton’s 3rd Canadian Division deploy to Ukraine
About 30 Canadian Forces’ personnel flew out of Edmonton on their way to Ukraine Thursday morning as part of Operation UNIFIER. …read more Source: Global...
Camelot and Canada: When Diefenbaker met Kennedy
Book review: Camelot and Canada by Asa McKercher The similarities between the John Diefenbaker—John F. Kennedy relationship and that of Stephen Harper and Barack Obama are striking. Both Diefenbaker and Harper were more conservative and scions of Western politics who clashed sharply with their liberal, urban-intellectual American presidential...
Chernobyl’s next phase: Ukraine is looking to turn the site of nuclear meltdown into massive solar farm
The move to solar at Chernobyl may also help Ukraine move closer toward the European Union and influence public opinion in conflict zones along the Russian border …read more Source: Vancouver...
True or false? Donald Trump’s comments on Russia and Ukraine
Donald Trump is trying to claw back a string of inaccurate comments about Ukraine, but he’s yet to get it right. …read more Source: Global...
Fact check: Here’s what Trump got wrong on Ukraine
Manu Brabo/AP WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is trying to claw back a string of inaccurate comments about Ukraine, but he’s yet to get it right. On the weekend, Trump asserted in an ABC interview that Russia would not enter Ukraine, not seeming to know Russian troops were already there. He suggested the 2014 annexation of Crimea didn’t...
Donald Trump’s bad 72 hours
By any conventional standard, Donald Trump just blundered through the worst three days of any presidential candidate in living memory. Showing a characteristic refusal to back down from a fight, Trump took the almost unthinkable step of publicly escalating a feud with the parents of fallen US solider, Capt. Humayun Khan, who blasted Trump at last...
Diplomatica: Ukrainian ambassador excited about trade deal opportunities
Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Shevchenko says Ukraine’s newly minted free-trade agreement with Canada gives his country a lot of credibility as a would-be trader with other nations. And, he said, it offers exciting opportunities for Canadian companies. “It tells the world that you can come to Ukraine and do business,” he said. Canada will...
Red tape forces Canada to stop providing Ukraine’s military with satellite imagery of Russian forces
The Canadian government has pulled the plug on providing Ukraine with satellite imagery to track Russian and rebel forces after the process of transferring the data became tangled up in red tape. The Conservative government announced in February 2015 Canada would give Ukraine imagery from the high-tech Radarsat-2 satellite to boost security in...
