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A look at the fall session of Parliament
OTTAWA – A number of major themes echoed through the turbulent fall session of Parliament that comes to an end this week. Here is a quick look at some of them:Politics: With the next scheduled federal election less than a year away, the Conservatives were working to hold their majority, while the New Democrats pondered byelection omens and...
Looking for Christmas books: Governor General winners and nominees offer their picks
Michael Crummey, finalist in Fiction for Sweetland (Doubleday Canada) Pick: Lila, Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) I read Robinson’s National Book Award winner Gilead a few years back and was completely floored by it. Narrated by a bookish geriatric preacher in the American midwest who unexpectedly falls in love with an...
The world as we see it
What, no reindeer? 250 Santas hit the slopes in Newry, Maine, for the 15th Annual Santa Sunday, raising money for local charitiesBrian Snyder/Reuters Friendly fire power With minimal fanfare, NATO-led troops in Afghanistan officially held a “colours casing ceremony” and closed their joint command in Kabul, putting the allied war effort on a path...
Russia says CIA torture report reflects ‘systemic’ rights abuse in US
MOSCOW – Relishing an opportunity to turn the tables on the U.S., Russia says the Senate’s investigation into the CIA torture practices has highlighted rampant rights abuse. The Foreign Ministry’s rights envoy, Konstantin Dolgov, said in Thursday’s statement that the evidence contained in the report “contradict the U.S....
Mountie killings, Ghomeshi scandal: Top news events in 2014
An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY 1 – Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. 3 – Phil Everly, the youngest of the Everly Brothers, died of chronic...
A comment on Ukraine
Photo by Yevgen Nasadyuk James Petras distinguishes himself by rejecting the wrong-headed theories on the political left that the driving force of events in Ukraine is a ‘Russian aggression’ or a struggle by ‘two imperialisms’ for control of the country. He calls it as it is–we’re seeing a continuation of NATO’s historic...
Ukraine’s president urges Russia to withdraw troops, close border
Australia pledged its support for Ukraine during a visit by the nation’s president on Thursday, with Australia’s prime minister calling for an end to the bloody conflict in Eastern Europe and Ukraine’s leader urging Russia to withdraw. …read more Source: CTV...
WATCH: Most dramatic protest videos of 2014
ABOVE: Protesters in Ferguson, Missouri surround and vandalize a police car – just one of the many dramatic images from protests in the small Midwestern town From Hong Kong to Ferguson, from Israel to Brazil, from the streets of Paris to the streets of Toronto – protesters of all stripes took to the streets once more in 2014. And in so many...
Concerts: Dec. 11 to 18
Thursday, Dec. 11 The Barra MacNeils: An East Coast Christmas, 7:30 p.m., Centrepointe Theatres, 101 Centrepointe Dr.; $50-$55; centrepointetheatres.com / www.barramacneils.com Centretown Recording Alliance 4th Annual Holiday Bash: Mnemonics, Fresh Hell, Lindberg Babies, Steady Shakes, Thunderuncle, The Stuff, Slim & Popular, 10 p.m., House...
Crimea is ‘our destiny,’ Russian PM says
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday the return of Crimea, annexed from Ukraine earlier this year, was Russia’s destiny, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s remarks. …read more Source:...
