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Dion to travel to Ukraine as Conservatives renew attacks on Russia policy
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion is travelling to Ukraine this weekend to express Canada’s support for the eastern European country that lost the Crimean Peninsula to Russia in 2014. Dion announced the trip in the House of Commons today as he faced a barrage of criticism from Opposition Conservatives about his decision to engage...
First Nations might be OK with Wernick in top job
If you were to listen to Conservative attacks you’d think the Trudeau government was soft on Islamic State terrorism, indifferent to the economic travails of the oil and gas industry, too ready to make nice with nasty Iran, insufficiently friendly to Israel, and not as supportive of Ukraine vis-à-vis Russia as it should be. Conservatives...
Dion gets tough with Israel, welcomes back Iran, and other reasons to fear for humanity
1. Dion gets tough with Israel, welcomes back Iran Ronald Zak / APIran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Reza Najafi. Ottawa wants to lift sanctions and let bygones be bygones. Did anyone doubt for a minute that Ottawa was going to play kissy-face with Iran first chance it got? On Sunday it sent a “tough message”...
Stephane Dion says Iran sanctions not good for Montreal’s Bombardier
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Dion says maintaining sanctions on Iran will only hurt Canadian companies such as Montreal-based airplane manufacturer Bombardier. Dion says Canada will lift a series of sanctions on Iran following its historic nuclear deal with six major western powers earlier this month. Iran is anxious to do business...
Sorry Israel, Canada is climbing back on the fence. And other reasons to fear for humanity
1. Liberals climb back on the fence in Israel Sebastian Scheiner / APThe family of Israeli Dafna Meir attend her funeral at a cemetery in Jerusalem Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. A Palestinian attacker stabbed and wounded a pregnant Israeli woman in the West Bank before being shot, Israeli officials said. Just what Canada needed is Ottawa climbing back...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaches out to Trudeau government
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reached out Tuesday to the new government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while decrying the the government of Trudeau’s predecessor Stephen Harper as “Russia-phobic.” Speaking during a wide-ranging annual foreign affairs news conference in Moscow, Lavrov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and...
How Litvinenko’s poisoning fits into Putin’s power play
Ria Novosti/Reuters A British inquiry into the death by poisoning of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London ten years ago paints a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin that is every bit as sinister as the most lurid caricatures of the former spy that have emerged in the 16 years he has led Russia—as either president or prime...
Adami: After long wait, ministry gives senior driver a pass
At 82, Norm Alexander really relies on his car, especially in winter because it allows him to get out a bit in the village of Russell, usually to the coffee shop to shoot the breeze with his pals. So when Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation suspended his driver’s licence just before Christmas for not doing his renewal review — he...
Evan Solomon: In conversation with Howard Drake
A report linking the murder of a Russian whistle-blower in London to orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to reawaken Cold War-style tensions between the U.K. and Russia. In 2006, former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko drank a cup of tea laced with radioactive polonium while meeting with two former Russian security officials....
From Canada with love?
While fresh winds of change are blowing through Canada’s international policy, those winds aren’t likely to lead to any thaw in relations with Russia, says a Canadian expert on foreign policy and military intervention. Stephen M. Saideman, the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, says, unlike with...
