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Putin’s new directive: Don’t mention the war, and Friday’s other reasons to fear for humanity
1. Add ‘$1,000 pay cut’ to that ‘tax on everything’ Justin Tang/THE CANADIAN PRESSStephen Harper and Joe Oliver: The budget they’re holding included no mention of voluntary CPP plan. Stephen Harper is calling the Liberal plan for a mandatory increase in the Canada Pension Plan “a $1,000 pay cut.” It’s a pretty typical...
Putin classifies number of dead in peacetime military operations
Move comes as evidence mounts of Russian forces’ involvement in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Toronto...
Ukraine minister says fighting could resume in country’s east
Ukraine’s defence minister said on Thursday Russia had moved forces into eastern Ukraine and there was a risk of fighting resuming between the army and pro-Russian separatists in coming months. …read more Source:...
Norad jets train in Arctic as Russian flights close to North America increase
Fighter jets from Canada and the United States are to practise intercepting foreign aircraft high over the Arctic in the coming days as Russian military flights up to the edge of North American airspace increase.”This is probably the most active they’ve been since the end of the Cold War,” said Maj.-Gen. David Wheeler, commander...
Alleged Nazi war criminal dies in Quebec
MONTREAL – The lawyer for a Quebec man suspected of being a Nazi war criminal says his client has died.Orest Rudzik says Vladimir Katriuk passed away last week after being ill for a lengthy period.The news comes a few weeks after the Russian Embassy in Ottawa called on the Harper government to support a criminal case against Katriuk.Earlier...
Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine
The scene at the base offers some of the clearest evidence to date of what appeared to be a concerted Russian military build-up in the area …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russia using mobile crematoriums to hide its Ukraine dead
Russia is so desperate to hide its military involvement in Ukraine that it has brought in mobile crematoriums to destroy the bodies of its war dead, say U.S. lawmakers who traveled to the war-torn country this spring. The U.S. and NATO have long maintained that thousands of Russian troops are fighting alongside separatists inside eastern Ukraine,...
Canada bars Russia from meeting about weapons of mass destruction
Russia has promised to retaliate for Canada’s “hostile actions” after a Russian delegation was blocked from attending an international conference in Ottawa this week aimed at stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The Conservative government was not immediately commenting on its decision to bar the two Russian officials, which...
WATCH: ‘Dramatic evidence’ of Ukraine ceasefire violation
A top NATO advisor said Ukrainian forces face “continual attacks,” as video emerged from a purported battle with Russian-backed separatists that would be in violation of a three-month ceasefire. …read more Source: Global...
U.S. lawmakers say Russia ‘trying to hide their casualties by taking mobile crematoriums’ into Ukraine
LiveLeakA mobile cremator seen in a video posted online, purportedly used by Russia in Ukraine to dispose of bodies to conceal its involvement in the neighbouring country. Russia is so desperate to hide its military involvement in Ukraine that it has brought in mobile crematoriums to destroy the bodies of its war dead, say U.S. lawmakers who...
