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The Gargoyle: Trudeau mum on Chrétien-Putin meeting
Justin Trudeau is keeping mum about former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s recent visit to Moscow. First, Trudeau’s spokesman, Cameron Ahmad, said the leader won’t comment on whether he was given a heads up or not that Chretien was planning to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Second, he also wouldn’t say whether...
The UpBeat: The emphasis on moms at ACCESO International’s annual dinner
ACCESO International is an Ottawa-based Canadian charitable organization that promotes and enables greater access to all levels of education for disadvantaged children, youth and women in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru. On May 9, ACCESO International is holding its 12th annual dinner, auction and...
Mourners in the Ukraine mark one year anniversary of Odesa fire
Demonstrators laid flowers and lit candles Saturday in front of a building in the Ukrainian city of Odesa where more than 40 people died as it caught fire in a clash between supporters and opponents of Ukraine’s government. …read more Source: CTV...
National Post View: An ill-chosen moment for Chrétien to be meeting with Putin
Former government leaders often find it difficult to leave behind the ego-boosting lifestyle that comes with election to their country’s highest office. Limousines, swank hotels, photo ops with similarly eminent international worthies … it’s a heady world to lose just because you’re no longer in power. Thus it must have been a...
Why is the West Spoiling for a Fight with Russia?
Photo by Kremlin.ru What are the consequences when elected governments make policy based on faith and imperial hubris instead of science and expertise? It’s a question that is forcing itself on the world as we watch the United States, Britain, NATO and the Harper government continue to up the ante in the confrontation with Russia over the...
A Fly’s View of America’s War Against Vietnam, Part One
Photo from National Archives The US invaded Vietnam publicly in the “wake” of the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. Since then this action by the US regime is customarily dignified by the term “intervention”. Although the pretext for the congressional resolution was at least suspicious then and long since discredited as fraudulent, the...
Opinion: All too often, journalists pay for press freedom with their lives
My father stashed his war memorabilia in a wooden box a long time ago. After his death, my mother gave the box to me. It remained unopened until I planned a trip to Normandy. The Normandy beaches are a three-hour train ride from the Gare du Nord in Paris. Memorials to war and war heroes are scattered throughout the 100-kilometre stretch, most of...
NATO’s top commander says alliance limited in understanding Russian moves
NATO’s commander U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove made a surprising admission to American lawmakers the other day. He acknowledged NATO doesn’t have any real idea what the Russians are up to. “Russian military operations in Ukraine and the region more broadly have underscored that there are critical gaps in our collection and...
Chretien and Putin met Thursday, and now the Harper government wants to know what they talked about
OTTAWA — The Harper government wants to know what former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien said in his meeting Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. And Defence Minister Jason Kenney said he hopes Chretien used the opportunity to deliver the same message the Conservatives always send these days to the Russian leader — get...
Ukraine minister wants Canada to send peacekeepers in conflict with Russia
Canada is one of the few countries willing to send military trainers to Ukraine, a decision Moscow earlier this called ‘deplorable’ …read more Source: The Globe and...
