Section: US & Canada
Iranian-Canadian organization moves festival online amid COVID-19 outbreak
TORONTO — A Toronto organization that planned to honour the lives of those who died in a plane crash in Iran has cancelled in-person events for its celebration of the Persian New Year. Tirgan said it has moved its Nowruz festival online. The annual event attracts upwards of 15,000 people, many part of the large Iranian-Canadian diaspora in the...
Iranian-Canadian organization moves festival online amid COVID-19 outbreak
TORONTO — A Toronto organization that planned to honour the lives of those who died in a plane crash in Iran has cancelled in-person events for its celebration of the Persian New Year. Tirgan said it has moved its Nowruz festival online. The annual event attracts upwards of 15,000 people, many part of the large Iranian-Canadian diaspora in the...
Ukrainian Nationalists Disrupt Peace Presentation On War In East
Ukrainian police say 15 people were arrested on March 12 after a group of right-wing activists disrupted a presentation in Kyiv regarding a possible political settlement in the war in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
A White House Set Up to Fail
President Trump failed the defining test of his presidency in his Oval Office address on the coronavirus. He turned to a format meant to calm the nation, provide clarity, and offer a clear plan of action, but accomplished none of those things. On the contrary, he left Americans more anxious, more confused, and looking elsewhere for a plan.To...
GOP senator announces intention to subpoena firm tied to Burisma
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is formally notifying the panel’s top Democrat that he wants to subpoena a firm linked to Ukraine gas company Burisma Ho… …read more Source:: The...
UPDATE: Congress suddenly cancels testimony of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General in Burisma hearings
On Thursday’s program, Glenn was joined by Andrii Telizhenkowa, former advisor to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, to give the latest on what he believes Alexandra Chalupa and the whistleblower were working on with Joe Biden.Andrii Telizhenkowa was on a train headed to D.C. to testify when he received news he would not be called as a...
The easiest event to cancel: Trudeau and the premiers
This week’s question is: How do governments govern in a world where the monkeys are rioting in Thailand and the Iranian burial pits are visible from space? To some extent you don’t. I’m writing this on Thursday, I feel I should emphasize, because so far Thursday is already eight times as weird as Monday was, and I have a hard...
With Coronavirus, the Chinese Repeat the Soviets’ Chernobyl Failure
Is the coronavirus China’s Chernobyl? It could be—but only if we hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for their early missteps that allowed the virus to spread unchecked for weeks. Chernobyl is the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. Many consider it a pivotal cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union. On...
Ukraine right-wingers derail peace conference
Right-wing activists in Ukraine have derailed a conference intended to discuss a political settlement to the separatist conflict in the country’s east …read more Source:: ABC...
Ukraine right-wingers derail peace conference
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