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Escalation in Ukraine fighting raises death toll over 5,350
Indiscriminate shelling and the escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine have killed at least 224 civilians in the past three weeks alone, the United Nations said Tuesday as it raised the overall death toll to more than 5,350 people. …read more Source: Global...
Escalation in Ukraine fighting raises death toll to 5,358: UN
The United Nations has raised the death toll from fighting in eastern Ukraine to over 5,350 people and is condemning the high number of civilians killed in the indiscriminate shelling there. …read more Source: CTV...
Eastern Ukraine artillery fire leaves 8 civilians dead
Artillery fire in eastern Ukraine has killed at least eight people and wounded 22 others in the past day, rebels in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk said Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Opposition day motions tilt toward campaigning, away from oversight
It has become a weekly, sometimes daily, Commons ritual: An opposition MP implores Speaker Andrew Scheer to schedule an emergency debate on a matter of urgent public business — the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, say, or a particularly persistent supply chain problem affecting grain farmers in Western Canada. After allowing the MP a few minutes to...
John Baird to resign as foreign affairs minister and not run again
OTTAWA – John Baird, one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s most trusted and high-profile cabinet ministers, is resigning his foreign affairs post and will not seek re-election later this year.Multiple Conservative sources tell The Canadian Press that Baird announced the news Monday, shocking even some of his cabinet colleagues.It is...
John Baird: A man for all questions
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird (Canadian Press) John Baird will go down as a man who never held a job too long. He’d already had plenty before he came to Ottawa in 2006, thanks to a decade on the Tory benches at Queen’s Park. Then, on Parliament Hill, Baird was Stephen Harper’s first president of the Treasury Board, twice...
Exit John Baird, stage right
From left, U.S. Naval Attache, Capt. Charles J. Cassidy, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, and Secretary of State John Kerry, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Oct. 28, 2014. (Carolyn Kaster, Pool, AP Photo) This is the third time Stephen Harper has found himself suddenly short a...
Crime Prevention Ottawa lays out anti-gang strategy
The nation’s capital certainly has problem with gangs, but compared with other Canadian cities, Ottawa’s situation is much less serious, Crime Prevention Ottawa’s executive director says. “The gang population in Ottawa is relative small compared to that of other cities in Canada,” Nancy Wosford said Monday. There are about 485...
Canada to help train Ukraine’s military police
OTTAWA – Defence Minister Rob Nicholson says Canada is joining the US-Ukraine Joint Commission on Defence Reform and Bilateral Co-operation.In a statement Monday night, Nicholson said the move will help to better co-ordinate Canada’s ongoing provision of assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.He says the joint commission is the most...
When Vladimir Putin declared war on a housewife
Is Russia fighting a war against Ukraine? To hear President Vladimir Putin and his ministers, it’s not — it merely sympathizes with the separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. Yet the case of a Russian housewife with a two-month-old baby, accused of treason and jailed for making a call to the Ukrainian embassy, proves that Russia sees the...
