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Tall tales from the online atrocity factory
A North Korean defense minister is executed with anti-aircraft fire for falling asleep in a meeting (or was it a parade)? If you don’t find that hard to believe, you probably buy everything you see advertised on TV. Even so, news media throughout the world repeated this story about the alleged demise of General Hyon Yong Chol, based on an...
Timeline: Eugene Melnyk has been running the Senators since 2003
Early years: Grows up in the High Park neighbourhood of Toronto, the son of Ukrainian immigrants 1978 Graduates from Toronto’s St. Michael’s College and spends a year with a new wave group called the Studabakers. Drops out of York University after two lectures, insisting real-world business will be his teacher. 2001 Pharmaceutical...
Russia moves closer to India and China – joint military exercises planned later this year
Russia is in the process of moving closer economically and militarily to India and China as it deals with sanctions from Western countries over the situation in Ukraine. While Western leaders boycotted May 9 ceremonies in Moscow to mark the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis, Chinese and Indian leaders were high profile at the event. In...
Former Soviet republics ask NATO to permanently deploy an army brigade as a deterrent against Russia
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The three Baltic countries are asking NATO to permanently deploy an army brigade to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia. The chiefs of defence of the three countries are presenting the request in a joint letter this week to NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe, said...
NATO asked to keep permanent military force in Baltic countries
The three Baltic countries are asking NATO to permanently deploy an army brigade to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: The chiefs of defence of the three countries are presenting the request in a joint letter this...
Nicholson briefed by Kerry on Putin talks
Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson is expressing muted optimism that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin could open the door to resolving the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Global...
Nicholson firm but hopes for some progress after Kerry-Putin talks
Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson is expressing muted optimism that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin could open the door to resolving the Ukraine crisis. Nicholson got a briefing from Kerry at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Turkey, which wrapped today. Kerry met Putin in...
As U.S. warms to Russia, Canada stays chilly
The cold war between Russia and the U.S. is easing. The cold war between Canada and Russia is not. On Tuesday, American Secretary of State John Kerry spent four hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Kerry told reporters later that it was the beginning of new dialogue. He thanked Putin for giving him so much...
Ukrainian memorial statue erected at Regina legislature
REGINA – Dignitaries and members of the Ukrainian community gathered in Regina to officially dedicate a statue that will serve as a permanent reminder of the Holodomor, the man-made famine that devastated Ukraine during the early 1930s. The bronze figure on the legislature grounds is a copy of a statue by sculptor Petro Drozdowsky in Kyiv called...
U.S., Russia speak of cooperation but no breakthroughs
Top U.S. and Russian officials said they hoped to work together on contentious issues such as the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria but offered no sign of concrete progress after more than eight hours of talks on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Toronto...
