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Putin moves into Syria, Obama into Eastern Europe: Brian Stewart
Feb10

Putin moves into Syria, Obama into Eastern Europe: Brian Stewart

Lost in the media focus on Syria was the fact that the U.S. just upped its NATO spending and added a brigade worth of armour to Eastern Europe. It’s not checkmate, Vladimir Putin, but big pieces are being moved around, Brian Stewart writes. …read more Source:...

Putin launches surprise military drills near Ukraine border as civil war threatens to reignite in Donbass
Feb08

Putin launches surprise military drills near Ukraine border as civil war threatens to reignite in Donbass

Vladimir Putin has scrambled troops across southwestern Russia for large-scale military drills intended to test the troop readiness amid continuing tensions with the West …read more Source: Vancouver...

Canada’s secret bid to stop Russian hackers
Feb08

Canada’s secret bid to stop Russian hackers

A billboard of Vladimir Putin reads, “Crimea. Russia. Forever” on Aug. 17, 2015 in Simferopol, Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill in March 2014 to annex the Crimean peninsula, but Ukraine and most of the international community do not recognize its annexation. (Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images) Canada last year quietly funded a...

It’s time to show you what really happens in the Commons
Feb08

It’s time to show you what really happens in the Commons

Late last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion rose in the Commons to answer a question on our policy on Ukraine. As he stumbled slightly, someone from the Conservative side shouted: “It’s not easy making priorities.” The Dion line was either funny, mocking an infamous fumble from the former Liberal leader, or the type of shouted...

Talking to Russia doesn’t mean abandoning Ukraine, ambassador says
Feb08

Talking to Russia doesn’t mean abandoning Ukraine, ambassador says

Ukraine’s new ambassador to Canada has dismissed suggestions the Liberal government is automatically abandoning his country by re-engaging with Russia. …read more Source: National...

Talking to Russia doesn’t mean abandoning Ukraine, ambassador says
Feb07

Talking to Russia doesn’t mean abandoning Ukraine, ambassador says

Ukraine’s new ambassador to Canada has dismissed suggestions the Liberal government is automatically abandoning his country by re-engaging with Russia. In an exclusive interview, Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Shevchenko said he hopes Canada will boost its support for his country, including through the provision of arms and long-term aid. He...

Western Aggression: The Highest Form of Terrorism
Feb05

Western Aggression: The Highest Form of Terrorism

Photo by Daniel Oines Aggression is arguably the highest form of terrorism as it invariably includes the frightening of the target populations and their leaders as well as killing and destruction on a large scale. The U.S. invaders of Iraq in 2003 proudly announced a “shock and awe” purpose in their opening assault, clearly designed to instill...

Clinton Corruption Leads to Russian Aggression
Feb04

Clinton Corruption Leads to Russian Aggression

The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, calling her “one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.” There was one big problem with the editorial. Her policy toward Russia laid the groundwork for the Russian aggression that the Pentagon now has to spend...

Michael Colborne: Russia’s bald-faced lies
Feb04

Michael Colborne: Russia’s bald-faced lies

We can complain all we want about lying politicians in our own country, but last week Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stepped up and showed us how it’s really done: without batting an eye, he told a press conference that Russia had never violated the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the agreement that guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial...

Ukrainian border guards stop cigarette-smuggling horses
Feb02

Ukrainian border guards stop cigarette-smuggling horses

Ukrainian officials say they intercepted a small herd of horses attempting to bring contraband cigarettes from Ukraine to Romania. …read more Source: Global...