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Ukraine: 6 key events since last year’s revolution
War clouds still loom, with country’s Crimean heartland in Russian hands despite the grassroots revolution that elected pro-western Petro Poroshenko president. …read more Source: Toronto...
Biden condemns Russia’s behaviour in Ukraine
U.S. Vice President visits Kiev on anniversary of pro-EU protests …read more Source: The Globe and...
Postcard from Solomons Island: Lesson from Mrs. Canada on how to be married and glamorous
SOLOMONS ISLAND, Maryland — The lady in red is Honey Boo Boo all grown up, a 40-year-old, blue-eyed Maritimer in stilettos and a sash that says MRS. CANADA, the stuff of Mountain Dew dreams and medical science. She is sitting in the coffee shop of a Holiday Inn on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, waiting to strut her head-turning attributes in a...
UKRAINE: Oppression of Christians Escalates
Source: Release International Since the political uprising began in Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists have taken control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the country. The takeover has resulted in an escalating frequency of attacks being made against Christians residing within these areas, including the recent seizure of an evangelical church...
Rebel leader’s new solution to the Ukraine civil war: He wants to duel the Ukrainian president on live TV
‘I will let you choose the place and the weapons,’ the rebel leader wrote in an open letter to Petro Poroshenko, ‘Each party has the right to 10 witnesses and 10 media representatives’ …read more Source: Vancouver...
Fisher: New trade deals with China, India cement Australia’s status as key Indo-Pacific power player
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia is on the kind of diplomatic tear that Canada can only dream of. Brisbane got lots of global attention by hosting the G20 leaders’ summit last weekend because so many participants queued up behind Canada’s Stephen Harper to disparage Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Kremlin’s malignant...
Hundreds killed since Ukraine truce, says UN
A new report from the UN team in Ukraine said at least 4,317 people have been killed in the conflict that began in mid-April. …read more Source: Toronto...
UN says killings, displacement on the rise in Ukraine
United Nations human rights investigators say the number of killings and people displaced by fighting in Ukraine continues to rise despite the Sept. 5 announcement of a cease-fire. …read more Source: CTV...
The limits of gunpoint diplomacy in Ukraine
Is Russian President Vladimir Putin losing Ukraine by stoking a war to keep it? As a new military campaign appears to be getting under way in eastern Ukraine, that’s an important question. To answer it, Putin could do worse than to stop by for tea at the Makarov household in Mariupol, the region’s main port and industrial center — now...
Editorial: Beyond Harper’s G20 sound bite
The fawning over Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s “you need to get out of Ukraine” hostile handshake with Russian President Vladimir Putin has ranged from reasonable to ridiculous. Some have praised the Canadian leader’s moral clarity and personal courage, which is fair (really, imagine saying that to Putin’s face rather than...
