Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian TV Channel To Take Dispute With Ultraright ‘Hate’ Group to European Human Rights Court
Ukraine’s only nonprofit and independent television channel intends to seek recourse with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding a Supreme Court decision on January 21 that ruled a right-wing nationalist group’s reputation had been blighted. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Iran at odds with Canada’s demands after asking U.S., France to help analyze black boxes
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Iran did not have the ability to read the data and he demanded the cockpit and flight recorders should be sent to France. Kiev wants the recorders sent to Ukraine. …read more Source:: Global...
Senate rejects Democrats’ attempt to subpoena White House for documents on Ukraine
Democrats were hit with a denial in their first attempt to amend the rules dictating the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Tuesday, when the GOP-led Senate rejected an effort by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to demand the White House hand over documents and other records related to Ukraine.What are the details?Sen....
Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday. Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews also videotaped himself advocating for killing people,...
Obama Wanted To ‘Look Forward’ From Bush Scandals. Warren Is Making No Such Promises
Before a backdrop of an impeachment trial that’ll probably lack witnesses and any evidentiary documents thanks to Senate Republicans, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is promising to hold President Trump and his administration accountable — even if the justice is retroactive. One of her campaign proposals, published Tuesday, would establish a...
NSC Russia Official’s Removal Could Signal ‘Egregious’ Security Violation
It’s still not clear why President Trump’s third National Security Council director for Russia and Eurasia was escorted out of the White House by security last week. But what is clear is that it’s a really big deal. NSC director for Russia and Eurasia Andrew Peek was put on administrative leave last week amid an unspecified...
Team Biden’s Been Prepping for Impeachment Smears for Months
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAs former Vice President Joe Biden prepares for his and his family’s reputation to be dragged across the floor of the Senate, the chamber where he spent the bulk of his career, his campaign has made only minor tweaks to the plan to defend him. While the stage is bigger given the smears from the White House will be...
House’s Prosecutors Supported Impeachment Well Before Trump’s Ukraine Call
Three of the House Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial—Jerry Nadler of New York, Zoe Lofgren of California, and Sylvia Garcia of Texas—are among lawmakers who voted last year to advance the president’s removal. Eight days after that vote, Trump talked by phone with Ukrainian President...
A look at some of the victims of the Iran plane crash who had roots in Canada
Dozens of people with ties to Canada were among the 176 who were killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 crashed after takeoff near Tehran, Iran. Here is a look at some of the victims with ties to Canada: NOVA SCOTIA Masoumeh Ghavi and Mahdieh Ghavi Ali Nafarieh, who teaches computer networking part time at Dalhousie and is...
Trump’s Myth About Adam Schiff
Never in the field of political conflict has so much been made by so many out of so little.Because the topic here is caricatured speeches, I hasten to add: Winston Churchill didn’t say that. As the Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins, one of the more curious, and less enlightening, elements has been the focus by the...
