Section: US & Canada
Twitter users are reporting Trump’s account for ‘threatening violence’ against North Korea
By Brian Fung | Washington Post Can a president be suspended from Twitter for threatening to attack another country? That’s what some Twitter users, including actor and former Barack Obama aide Kal Penn, are demanding, after President Trump tweeted Friday morning that U.S. “military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded,...
Trump’s Favorite Media Outlets Are Melting Down Over News Paul Manafort’s Home Was Raided
Breitbart and company are working overtime to distance the president from his former campaign manager. After President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was issued a search warrant regarding the Russia investigation, pro-Trump media — including Fox personalities, fringe blogs, neo-Nazi sites, and fake news...
What to know about the biggest stories of the week
Our brief guide to the news you may have missed. Congress is out on its summer vacation, and while the Trump administration insists the president’s August sojourn to his luxury golf resort in New Jersey isn’t a vacation, it certainly has a vacation-y vibe to it. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images President Trump boards Air Force One on...
Why Does Trump Still Refuse to Criticize Putin?
President Trump is most comfortable when he’s on the verbal offensive. He loves a good war of words, whether his target is a foreign adversary, a foreign ally, a Republican rival, or Rosie O’Donnell. According to a New York Times tally, Trump has attacked 351 separate people, places, and things on Twitter alone since July 2015.The...
An Update on the War in Ukraine
The conflict was then, and it remains today, a real war. …read more Source: CNS...
Why the sons of Russian spies qualify as Canadians
Alex and Tim Foley in Bangkok in 2011. (Tim and Alex Foley) Peggy Ann Osborne and Don Chapman are the lead researcher and founder, respectively, for Lost Canadians, a volunteer group of Canadian advocates working to restore rightful citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have fallen between the cracks of citizenship laws. The...
What can Canada do for Venezuela?
(Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Ben Rowswell was Canada’s ambassador to Venezuela from 2014 until last month, when he retired from the Canadian foreign service. He’s now working in Toronto as co-founder of Udara, a software venture that provides an app designed to help activist groups connect with supporters through their mobile...
Russian Court Sentences Ukrainian To 8 Years On Terror Charges
A court in Russia has sentenced a Ukrainian citizen to 8 years in prison on terrorism charges. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Despite sanctions, Russia further quashes dissent, human rights in occupied Crimea
KYIV – The persecution of ethnic Ukrainians, Crimean-Tatars and Russians who take pro-Ukrainian stances by the occupying Kremlin regime in Crimea continues unabated and is reaching anomalous proportions. “Neglect of human rights [on Ukraine’s territory of Crimea] is coming to an unprecedented scale, cynicism and absurdity,” said Crimean...
Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada promotes trade deal between ‘symbol’ and ‘new frontier’ of the free world
OTTAWA – Since taking up his post as Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada in late 2015, Andriy Shevchenko has spent most of his time with journalists talking to them about Russian aggression in his country. So when there’s a good-news story, such as the official launch of the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA) on August 1, […]...
