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Russia’s $400-billion military modernization plan in jeopardy due to Western sanctions and lower oil prices
NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — It has a remote-controlled turret, it bristles with state-of-the-art defence systems and its computerized controls make driving it feel “like playing a video game.” Russia’s Armata tank, which its creator says can be turned into a fully robotic combat vehicle, is the crowning glory of a sweeping military modernization...
Analysis: Harper’s European trip has domestic political overtones
VATICAN, Vatican City – As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was being shepherded around the Vatican’s inner corridors for his meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday, a mild kerfuffle broke out over the giving of gifts.A Vatican reporter noted that Harper did not come bearing one. His staff went to pains to email journalists travelling...
Leonid Bershidsky: Relax, western world, Putin is no Goldfinger. He’s not even Bloefeld
Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on foreign-language propaganda, all that President Vladimir Putin has achieved outside Russia is the status of a Bond movie villain. He may enjoy it, especially since there’s no 007 in sight to tackle him, but his variety of pop stardom is growing into a problem for his country: He is seen as...
Tyler Dawson: Magna Carta rights are still at risk today
Eight centuries after Magna Carta was first sealed, the gut reaction, fuelled by hundreds of years of lionization, is to look back on a glorious history of rights, wherein the trajectory is straight from a solid foundation to today’s human rights. This impulse is wrong – at least in the sense that it’s coupled with the conclusion...
Harper disappoints aboriginals by refusing to urge Pope to issue apology
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is under fire for turning his back on aboriginal residential school survivors after he skipped a chance to personally urge the Pope to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the abusive system. Harper met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, just nine days after the release of the report of the...
Can Pope Francis solve the world’s political problems?
Russia remains at odds with Western nations over its support for separatist groups in Eastern Ukraine, but the tensions between President Vladimir Putin and his geopolitical adversaries was brought to one of the world’s holiest places this week. Within 24 hours of one another, both Putin and Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Pope...
PM’s visit with Pope focuses on Ukraine, not residential schools
Vatican Pool/Getty Images VATICAN CITY, Italy – Prime Minister Stephen Harper raised the troubling findings of the residential schools commission Thursday during an unusually brief meeting with Pope Francis, but stopped short of inviting him to Canada to apologize. Instead, Harper referred to a letter sent earlier in the week to the Vatican by...
Harper gets 10-minute papal visit, focuses on Ukraine not residential schools
Prime Minister Stephen Harper raised the troubling findings of the residential schools commission during his unusually brief meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday, but appeared to have stopped short of inviting him to Canada to apologize. Instead, Harper referred to letter sent earlier in the week to the Vatican by his aboriginal...
Harper raises residential schools commission during papal visit: PMO
VATICAN CITY, Italy – Prime Minister Stephen Harper raised the troubling findings of the residential schools commission with Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday, but appeared to have stopped short of inviting him to Canada to apologize.Instead, Harper referred to letter sent earlier in the week to the Vatican by his aboriginal affairs...
Pope Francis, Canadian PM Stephen Harper meet at Vatican
Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen met with Pope Francis today at the Vatican, although it wasn’t immediately known what Canada’s prime minister and the head of the Roman Catholic Church discussed. Harper was expected to raise the issue of Russian aggression in Ukraine, a day after Pope Francis met with Russian President Vladimir...
