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The real target of Taber’s new law: Mennonites?
Photograph by Chris Bolin It’s one o’clock on a damp Sunday afternoon in Taber, Alta., three weeks after the town council enacted a bylaw that imposes a curfew, fines for swearing and yelling in public, and gives police powers to break up groups of three or more people. Like every other Sunday here, pickup trucks begin pulling into...
The vulnerability of Putin and his bomb
The media have been alive with reports that Russian president Vladimir Putin was ready to use atomic weapons if the West forcefully intervened to prevent Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula, a part of the nation of Ukraine. Putin’s use of force and his readiness to resort to nuclear weapons indicate what is at state for...
Separatist leaders threaten to abandon Ukraine ceasefire
Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine are threatening to abandon a ceasefire following changes to a law granting their regions self-rule. …read more Source: CTV...
Russia marks first anniversary of Crimea’s annexation while dissent in region is smothered
Condemned in the West as a flagrant breach of international law, the seizure of this peninsula is seen by many here as a triumph of justice – and a riposte to Western hypocrisy …read more Source: Vancouver...
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict in Pictures, One Year After Crimea’s Annexation
KYIV, Ukraine—Monday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a former Ukrainian territory. …read more Source: Canada Free...
Russia planning to send nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea, missiles to Poland border
The deployment is part of Russia’s massive war games to showcase its resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russia to send new missiles to Baltic exclave on manoeuvres
Russia to deploy missiles to Kaliningrad, bombers to Crimea as part of drills, official says …read more Source:...
Canada ratifies cluster bomb convention after half decade of controversy
OTTAWA – The Harper government has ratified an international treaty to ban deadly cluster bombs, after more than half a decade of controversy.Canada signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008, but dragged its heels on ratifying it in the face of widespread international complaints, including from the usually neutral International...
Canada ratifies cluster bomb convention after half-decade of controversy
OTTAWA – The Harper government has ratified an international treaty to ban deadly cluster bombs, after more than half a decade of controversy. Canada signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008, but dragged its heels on ratifying it in the face of widespread international complaints, including from the usually neutral International...
EU unlikely to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, presidency says
European Union leaders are not expected to impose new sanctions against Russia at their summit this week over the conflict in Ukraine as long as the peace agreement is being respected, the EU presidency said Tuesday. …read more Source: CTV...
