Section: US & Canada
Russian Orthodox Church defrocks coronavirus-denying monk
MOSCOW — The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken control of a monastery. A church panel in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg ruled to defrock Father Sergiy, who has attracted nationwide attention by urging believers to disobey church leadership and defy...
Politics, pandemics and Russian aluminum: why Canada faces fresh U.S. tariffs
WASHINGTON — The United States is once again threatening to spark a fresh tariff war with Canada over aluminum exports, despite the debut of a North American trade agreement that was supposed to usher in stability in the midst of an international economic crisis. Precisely why remains a mystery to trade and industry insiders, although it’s...
Ukraine parliament approves resignation of Central Bank Governor Smoliy
Yakiv Smoliy’s resignation rattled the market and raised questions about Ukraine’s commitment to reforms. …read more Source::...
A military man breaches the gates at Rideau Hall
Welcome to a sneak peek of the Maclean’s Politics Insider newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered straight to your inbox. Ottawa’s New Edinburgh neighbourhood is firmly rooted in the century before last. It’s the kind of place where every street sign doubles as a plaque with a history lesson. Its founder, Thomas McKay, left his...
Federal Workers Accuse Biden Labor Ally of Sexual Misconduct, Racial Discrimination
Federal workers are accusing powerful Democratic labor allies of gross sexual misconduct, ranging from the use of a company limo to visit male prostitutes to licking the ear of a subordinate. A new lawsuit accuses 16 senior officials of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a public-sector union with more than 300,000 members,...
US Strategic Partners Urge More Attention to Black Sea
Top diplomats from Ukraine, Georgia and Romania are urging the United States and NATO to step up their presence in the Black Sea region to discourage Moscow from advancing its aggressive agenda.Ambassadors from the three countries, all of which border the sea, voiced their concerns Thursday at an event organized by the Middle East...
U.S. Congress Urges Ukraine To Negotiate With Renewable Energy Producers Amid Price Dispute
Members of the U.S. Congressional Ukraine Caucus have asked President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to find a compromise with renewable energy producers over prices as a months-long dispute threatens foreign investment. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump Admin Mulls Keeping Putin From G7 Summit in Response to Russian Bounties on Americans’ Heads
Jorge Silva/AFP via GettyYou pay to kill our troops—we won’t invite you to our meeting of world leaders.That’s the scenario being mulled by senior officials in the upper echelons of the Trump administration, who are scrambling for a way to respond to Russia after news broke that at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
House judiciary panel to interview ousted NY prosecutor
WASHINGTON — The ousted former U.S. attorney for Manhattan will sit down with the House Judiciary Committee next week for a closed-door interview as the panel investigates politicization in the Justice Department. Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who led investigations into allies of President Donald...
Vladimir Putin: Russia’s weak strongman
Vladimir Putin inspires many thoughts (“He is an evil man,” thinks John McCain in his memoirs; “Will he become my new best friend?” thinks Trump in a tweet), but none so common as two competing ideas of the Russian president’s power, each ruminated upon by his adversaries but each seeming to oppose the other: “Putin is weak,” think some;...
