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Ugandan kayak team granted visas for Ottawa River competition
Canadian immigration officials have granted visas to four members of the Ugandan freestyle kayaking team. They are now cleared to compete in the World Freestyle Kayaking Championships beginning Aug. 30 on the Ottawa River at Beachburg. It was third time lucky for the kayakers, who had twice been refused by the Canadian High Commission officials...
The coming war with Russia
A couple of months before he retired in July, the head of Canada’s air force provided a blunt assessment of what might emerge from the current military mission to Ukraine. “We pray that our ongoing NATO mission isn’t accompanied by the escalation of deadly force and the shedding of blood,” Lt.-Gen. Yvan Blondin wrote in the magazine...
Russian ‘confrontations’ a PR gold mine for Harper
It was the kind of response Canadian military officers expected. Still, when two Russian frigates appeared on the horizon and trailed a Canadian warship carrying Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Baltic Sea on June 10, the incident made national news in Canada. The Russians were spotted seven nautical miles, or 13 kilometres, from HMCS...
Glavin: Canadian politics is boring, thank goodness
As the federal election winds its way towards Oct. 19, it’s going to take quite an effort to match the comic drama of that exquisitely staged Conservative party press event in Toronto Wednesday. A cranky man — who was that guy, Grandpa from the Simpsons? — ruined everything by upstaging Stephen Harper himself with a profanity-laced tirade...
Russian’s stunt-loving Putin rides to bottom of Black Sea
Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft Tuesday to check out an ancient sunken ship found recently in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea. …read more Source: CTV...
Stunt-loving Vladimir Putin rides to the bottom of the Black Sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken a small submersible craft down to the bottom of the Black Sea to see an ancient ship recently discovered off the coast of Crimea. …read more Source: Global...
Pentagon to increase drone use by 50 per cent
Faced with escalating aggression from Russia and China, the Pentagon is planning to increase its use of drones by about 50 per cent over the next several years, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: The Pentagon decided to add Army and civilian-operated missions to the mix because the Air Force, which had...
Seven civilians, two troops dead in eastern Ukraine as shelling increases between government, rebels
Despite pledges to withdraw heavy calibre weapons from the front lines, both sides seem to be engaged in recent heavy fighting …read more Source: The Globe and...
Early Briefing: Nearly $500,000 in crashed Indonesian plane; fighting flares in Ukraine
Busy morning? Here are five stories that will help you catch up on what’s going on in the world right now …read more Source: The Globe and...
Civilians killed as fighting flares in eastern Ukraine
The clashes near Mariupol put further strain on a fragile ceasefire between the two sides …read more Source: The Globe and...
