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Iranian-Canadian organization moves festival online amid COVID-19 outbreak
TORONTO — A Toronto organization that planned to honour the lives of those who died in a plane crash in Iran has cancelled in-person events for its celebration of the Persian New Year. Tirgan said it has moved its Nowruz festival online. The annual event attracts upwards of 15,000 people, many part of the large Iranian-Canadian diaspora in the...
The easiest event to cancel: Trudeau and the premiers
This week’s question is: How do governments govern in a world where the monkeys are rioting in Thailand and the Iranian burial pits are visible from space? To some extent you don’t. I’m writing this on Thursday, I feel I should emphasize, because so far Thursday is already eight times as weird as Monday was, and I have a hard...
Ukraine right-wingers derail peace conference
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What’s Happening: Pandemic declared, virus survival studied
New clusters of the novel coronavirus are expanding in the United States and Europe as Italy replaces China as the current epicenter of a worldwide outbreak. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more...
Russia, Ukraine negotiate another prisoner exchange
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Court: House entitled to Mueller probe grand jury testimony
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department must give Congress secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday — giving the House a win in a separation-of-powers clash with the Trump administration. The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 opinion that House Democrats were...
Families of those killed when Flight MH17 was shot down hope trial will expose Russian ‘lies’
As the criminal trial of four men charged with the destruction of Flight MH17 begins in the Netherlands, victims’ families demand the Kremlin’s highest representatives be held responsible. …read more Source::...
MH17 relatives protest Russian actions with 298 empty chairs
The families of people killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 set out 298 white chairs outside the Russian Embassy on Sunday in a silent protest against Moscow’s lack of co-operation in the investigation into the downing of the passenger jet. …read more Source:: CTV...
Reports: Laughing gas suspected in Ukraine chess deaths
Two young Ukrainians prominent in the country’s chess circles have been found dead in Moscow, and news reports say so-called laughing gas is suspected in their deaths. …read more Source:: CTV...
RCMP aiding investigation into Iran’s downing of Ukraine Flight 752
The Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down by the Iranian military in January, killing all 176 passengers and crew, including 55 Canadians. …read more Source:: Toronto...
