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Ukrainian parliament approves bill banning discrimination of gays
Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a bill that bans discrimination of gays, key legislation intended to help pave the way for visa-free travel between Ukraine and the European Union. …read more Source: CTV...
Canada ready to re-engage with Russia, Iran, despite differences, Dion says
Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion says Canada will be more constructive in its diplomatic dealings with Iran and Russia, but that caution and assertiveness will remain central to its approach. In an interview with the Citizen on Wednesday, Dion said the new Liberal government also won’t shy away from criticizing either Israel or the...
Ukraine, separatists trade accusations of ceasefire violations, increased attacks
Ukrainian military says separatist rebels violate ceasefire 21 times in past 24 hours, with one soldier killed …read more Source: The Globe and...
Putin: Russia is going to develop weapons to pierce missile defence shield
Russia will counter NATO’s U.S.-led missile defence program by deploying new weapons capable of piercing the shield, warned Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Associated Press news service. Putin made the remarks Tuesday. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: Putin told defence officials that by developing...
If you win the wars at home, there’ll be no fighting anymore
Photo by Benoit Aubry But the hardest thing I’ll ask you, if you will only try Is take your children by their hands and look into their eyes And there you’ll see the answer you should have seen before If you’ll win the wars at home, there’ll be no fighting anymore - final verse of Phil Ochs’ “What Are You Fighting...
Watson: Liberals will need someone who can say ‘no!’
I got cheap laughs in post-election chats by telling people that while I hadn’t been crazy about Stephen Harper’s policies, I did admire his personality. I felt a little bad about that. Not having met Harper more than two or three times, all I really know about his personality is what we saw of him on TV, which was usually pretty...
Kilford: On Remembrance Day, our freedoms and values remain on solid ground
Inés Fiedler, Sideqa Haqani, Alice Guimond, Joo Hee Chung, Darynn Bednarczyk, Hareem Masroor, Ginny Hsaing and Owen Brown – just a few of the past and present senior winners of the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Poster and Literary Contest. The aim of the contest is to nurture and advance the tradition of remembrance in Canada, and with...
Here’s what the new Liberal cabinet looks like
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was sworn in today, along with members of the new Liberal cabinet. Here’s who they are: Bill Morneau Portfolio: Finance Degree of difficulty: Extreme First challenge: The Liberals have promised their first piece of legislation when Parliament resumes, likely in early December, will be a middle-class tax cut. To...
Bill Brownstein: Looking for art in unlikely places
Nabil Mehchi and Frank Fiorito could have played it a lot safer. The Montreal-based creators of the five-part documentary series Interrupt This Program — which debuts Friday at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV — could have conducted their search for underground art scenes in relatively stable metropolises. Clearly, though, Mehchi and Fiorito like to live on the...
Human rights groups trying to reverse Stephen Harper’s plan to sell advanced weapons to Ukraine
Human rights groups are questioning whether Canadian-made weapons would be used against civilians in the conflict against Russian-backed separatists …read more Source: Vancouver...
