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Open Letter to Stéphane Dion re: Ukraine and Russia
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov The Honourable Stéphane Dion Minister of Foreign Affairs House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Minister Dion, Thank you for your letter of June 30 that was in response to my letter to you of November 17, 2015. When your government came into office last fall you inherited the Harper Conservative foreign policy...
Putin tests West’s sanctions resolve on visit to Slovenia
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Saturday in Slovenia, a member of both the European Union and NATO, testing Western unity in maintaining crippling sanctions against the Kremlin for its role in Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Are healthier relations with Russia in the works?
This might seem a curious time for Ottawa to make a 180-degree turn in trying to restore healthy relations with Russia. But there were Stéphane Dion, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, meeting Monday on the neutral ground of a Pacific nations summit in Laos for a 30-minute cover-the-waterfront...
Today’s letters: Hells Angels, the death of Abdirahman Abdi
Just another gang of tourists? Re: Hells Angels sight-see and nosh as mayhem-free conventioneers, July 25. Looking at Jason Ransom’s picture of a Hells Angel photographing fellow gang members on the steps of Parliament Hill, I couldn’t help but recall Gilbert and Sullivan’s delightful song “When A Felon’s Not Engaged in...
The View From A Russian Frigate In Crimea
Russia recently introduced a new warship in the Black Sea, an area of heightened tension since Russia’s seizure of Crimea two years ago. NPR’s Corey Flintoff was invited onboard. …read more Source:...
Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
MOSCOW — Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin. …read more...
Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin. …read more Source: CTV...
German FM: Trump victory could affect trans-Atlantic ties
BERLIN — A victory for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election could affect trans-Atlantic ties, Germany’s foreign minister said Thursday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an interview that if the Republican candidate wins the presidency it would mean “a lot of uncertainty for the trans-Atlantic relationship.”...
Democrats criticize Trump’s 'dangerous' approach, comments on Russia
GOP nominee asks Russians to locate missing Clinton e-mails, says he would consider recognizing Putin’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source: The Globe and...
Glavin: America faces a banana republic moment
If you’ve lately come to conclude that American democracy has degenerated into a hopelessly dystopian reality-television spectacle and it seems as though we’re all teetering at the abyss of a broken America that is no longer a force for good in the world, you are wrong. It’s worse than you think. It’s later than you think....
