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Maclean’s on the Hill: Ukraine, Ed Broadbent, Bill C-51
Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, we talk to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg about the situation in Ukraine, sit down with former NDP leader Ed Broadbent to discuss progressive hopes for this year’s federal election, and discuss Bill C-51,...
Crimea and Ukraine: a Tragedy Like the Charge of the Light Brigade!
Crimea, surrounded by the Black Sea, hangs like a diamond from the southern end of Ukraine. It has historic ties to Russia but was an independent republic until annexed in 2014 as part of the Russian Federation after a dubious referendum. Russia’s maritime fleet has been stationed in Crimea for decades. Almost 30 percent of Crimeans receive...
Lies and Deceptions on the Left: The Politics of Self-Destruction
Buzludzha • Photo by Stanislav Traykov Introduction Over the past year, what appeared as hopeful signs, that Left governments were emerging as powerful alternatives to right-wing pro-US regimes, is turning into a historic rout, which will relegate them to the dustbin of history for many years to come. The rise and rapid decay of left-wing...
Poland suspects Russian flight controllers in 2010 crash that killed president
Announcement comes at a time when Poland’s ties with Russia are tense over the deadly conflict in neighbouring Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
The Interview: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
(David Kawai for Maclean’s Magazine) Jens Stoltenberg has been secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since October. Before that, he was prime minister of Norway for nine years. He was in Ottawa this week. Q: You met this morning with Prime Minister Harper and with some senior ministers, including Jason Kenney and Rob...
Poland charges Russian flight controllers in 2010 crash that killed president
Announcement comes at a time when Poland’s ties with Russia are tense over the deadly conflict in neighbouring Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
West wants to weaken Russia, Syria’s Assad says
‘I keep coming back to the fact that there is a connection between the Syrian crisis and what is happening in Ukraine,’ the Syrian president told a Russian government newspaper …read more Source: The Globe and...
Mr. Alexander’s fantasy Cold War
That was some speech Immigration Minister Chris Alexander gave the Ukrainian Canadian Congress last week. It combined a scathing attack on Vladimir Putin with a rousing call to arms. The minister’s barn-burner began with a quite reasonable proposition: that the West’s escalating confrontation with Russia is a threat more dangerous...
Ukrainian leader strikes blow against oligarchy
Ukrainians are asking whether the removal of billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky and others are the beginning of a campaign to eradicate Ukraine’s endemic corruption, or a show to impress voters and international lenders. …read more Source: Toronto...
Bill Browder’s nasty glimpse into the black heart of Putin’s Russia
When Kremlin goons beat his lawyer to death in a prison hospital six years ago, Bill Browder was just a talented investor trying to make his fortune in the rock-and-roll stock markets of post-Soviet Russia. Now he’s a human rights crusader, in Ottawa this week to ask countries like Canada to impose more Russian sanctions. …read more...
