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Ukraine’s president dismisses powerful governor
Action to dismiss billionaire governor of Dnipropetrovsk sets the stage for possible political unrest. …read more Source: Toronto...
WATCH: Ukrainian emergency services chief arrested on live television
Ukrainian police detained the head of the state emergency service on suspicion of fraud during a televised government meeting Wednesday. …read more Source: Global...
Letters: Sometimes force is necessary; and other views
Sometimes force is necessary Re: Stephen Harper, warmonger, March 21. Joseph Heath’s opinion piece assumes Prime Minister Stephen Harper is operating in a vacuum and not a world where cause and effect, action and reaction exist. Harper did not create ISIL or cause the Russians to annex Crimea or assist in the dismemberment of Ukraine. What...
Letters: Dear motorists: Please heed cyclists; and other topics
Dear motorists: Please heed cyclists It is that time of year when we cyclists start popping up on a street near you, possibly the one you are driving on. Please be careful. We are people too. We are productive members of society. We may even be someone you know. We are doctors, lawyers, programmers, salespeople, labourers, grandmothers and...
Ukraine officials arrested, dismissed; stage set for possible political unrest
Ukraine’s president acted to quell a potential source of fresh political unrest Wednesday by dismissing the truculent billionaire governor of a region neighbouring areas where fighting is still taking place between government and separatist forces. …read more Source: CTV...
In ‘war of the oligarchs,’ Ukrainians will be the losers
President fires billionaire governor of the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk as new fault lines emerge in Kiev …read more Source: The Globe and...
Ukraine officials arrested in bribery case on live TV
Ukrainian police officers charged into a televised government meeting Wednesday and detained two top officials on suspicion of extorting bribes. …read more Source: CTV...
A cash crunch, a downgrade, and making fast-food pay
Yesterday we took a look at economic crises rocking Brazil and Venezuela, so today, spare a thought for our usual suspects (and their lenders), Greece and Ukraine, whose fortunes just seem to keep on crashing before our eyes. A default for Ukraine is “almost certain”, according to Moody’s, which downgraded the country’s credit outlook...
The low, dishonest decade redux
In his famous poem titled September 1, 1939, British poet W.H. Auden described the 1930s as “a low, dishonest decade.” There are eerie similarities between the third decade of the 20th Century and the second decade of the 21st Century. The third decade of the 20th Century gave the world Nazism and fascism and the Second World War. The second...
Ukraine’s president dismisses powerful governor, setting stage for possible political unrest
Petro Poroshenko’s office said in a statement that Ihor Kolomoysky had asked to be released from his duties as governor of Dnipropetrovsk …read more Source: The Globe and...
