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Canada under pressure to strengthen Ukraine crisis response
The Conservative government is under pressure over its refusal to provide “lethal” military aid to Ukraine or to sanction three Russians tied to both Vladimir Putin and Canadian businesses. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Canada under pressure to strengthen Ukraine crisis response
The Conservative government is under pressure over its refusal to provide “lethal” military aid to Ukraine or to sanction three Russians tied to both Vladimir Putin and Canadian businesses. The government announced economic sanctions and travel bans against 11 additional Russian officials and nine Ukrainian separatist leaders last week in...
‘Crimea is Russia – once and forever,’ new Russian ambassador says
Russia will not change course in Crimea – but insists that diplomacy, not sanctions, will resolve the crisis, says Moscow’s new Ambassador to Canada Alexander Darchiev in an exclusive interview with CBC News Network’s Power and Politics. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, Russia, France, Germany agree to hold new round of Ukraine peace talks
Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on Monday reached an agreement to call another round of Ukraine peace talks this week. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian-Canadians answering call of the homeland
Canadians of Ukrainian ancestry have raised $2.4 million in aid and donated time and talents to supporting Ukraine in the conflict with Russian-backed opposition. …read more Source: Toronto...
Fisher: No easy solution for Vladimir Putin and Russia
As economic gloom settles over Moscow, parts of the Russian capital have become Potemkin villages. The most splendid of these still prosperous looking facades is Moscow City, a shiny $14 billion forest of glass and steel skyscrapers that includes four of Europe’s five tallest buildings with the tallest building of all still under...
NATO commander says dealing with root causes of Islamic extremism key to winning Iraq war
It could very well be that 2014 is remembered as the year when Canada traded one shadow war for possibly two others, writes Murray Brewster of the Canadian Press. Here is the rest of Murray Brewster’s article: The flag was barely folded and put away in Kabul, marking a formal end to more than 12 years of counter-insurgency war against the...
The New Canadian Militarism
From the Conversion of Highway 401 entering Toronto into the “Highway of Heroes” as a macabre celebration of Canadian soldiers killed in combat, to the renaming of the Canadian armed forces to echo past imperialist campaigns, to the wrapping of Hockey night in Canada in nationalist celebration of the military, the themes of militarism now...
Canada faces long conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine
OTTAWA – It could very well be that 2014 is remembered as the year when Canada traded one shadow war for possibly two others. The flag was barely folded and put away in Kabul, marking a formal end to more than 12 years of counter-insurgency war against the ghostly Taliban, before CF-18s were dispatched to begin pounding extremist targets in Iraq....
The Santa Rally Continues
Last week’s wild ride saw oil prices hit five and a half year lows for oil prices and a five year record for weekly gain on the TSX. This week might just be quieter (although let’s not make any bets), with markets in North America and Europe closed for Christmas and Boxing Day, and more closures next week for New Years. The Day Ahead...
