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AFN urges PM Harper to seek apology on residential schools during papal visit
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was planning to raise Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican today. But government officials were unable to tell The Canadian Press whether Harper would raise the residential schools issue with the Pope. Harper goes into the meeting facing calls to use the occasion to...
Analysts question whether Conservative government’s talk about joining NATO rapid reaction force is election posturing
The Harper government is considering joining NATO’s rapid reaction force, but doing so could mean spurning a traditional ally whose been courting Canada to be part of its formation, Murray Brewster of the Canadian Press writes. Here is the rest of Murray Brewster’s article: Defence Minister Jason Kenney has acknowledged the government...
Britain gets cold shoulder with Canada’s talk of joining NATO force
The Harper government is considering joining NATO’s rapid reaction force, but doing so could mean spurning a traditional ally whose been courting Canada to be part of its formation. Defence Minister Jason Kenney has acknowledged the government is discussing whether to become part of the alliance’s high-readiness force, casting the...
Chernobyl photographer Igor Kostin dies at 78
Igor Kostin, a Ukrainian photographer who took one of the first pictures of the ravaged Chernobyl nuclear plant after it exploded in 1986, has died. He was 78. …read more Source: CTV...
Majority of Canadians support war with Russia to defend NATO ally: Pew
More than half of Canadians surveyed in a new poll say they would support going to war with Russia if the regime got into a serious military conflict with a fellow NATO country. The Pew Research Centre published the results of its survey, which interviewed 11,116 adults over the age of 18 from 10 NATO countries — including Canada — between April...
Harper gets exactly what he wants when Russians trail visit to HMCS Fredericton
ANALYSIS GDYNIA, Poland — Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have got exactly what he wanted from his trip on HMCS Fredericton when two Russian warships tracked the Canadian frigate, approaching within seven nautical miles Wednesday in the Baltic Sea. “It’s normal and expected for them to be operating in the Baltic Sea,” Cmdr. Jeff Murray,...
Harper sees Russian ships in Baltic Sea while sailing on HMCS Fredericton
GDYNIA, Poland – A Canadian warship carrying Stephen Harper in the Baltic Sea was shadowed by two Russian frigates on Wednesday, giving the prime minister a front-row seat in the naval chess game between the West and Russia.There was never any danger, but the incident provided some unexpected drama after Harper and his wife, Laureen, spent...
Russian Warships Approach Canada Frigate With Harper Aboard
Two Russian warships came within seven nautical miles of HMCS Fredericton as it carried Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Baltic Sea Wednesday, according to the frigate’s captain. Jeff Murray, speaking to reporters after the ship docked in northern Poland, said encounters with Russian ships and warplanes in the Baltic are common...
Russian vessels track Canadian warship carrying Harper in Baltic Sea
Harper was on HMCS Fredericton, a frigate part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission to reassure Eastern Europe members they will be protected should Russian aggression in Ukraine spread to other countries …read more Source: The Globe and...
Bush in Germany says Putin, a ‘bully,’ only understands force as deterrent in Eastern Europe
BERLIN – The United States should consider sending thousands more U.S. troops along with NATO forces to Eastern Europe to match the strength Russian President Vladimir Putin is amassing along the former Soviet bloc nations’ eastern border, Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Wednesday.Capping the two-day German leg of a...
