Section: US & Canada
How Stephen Harper hopes to win the 2015 election
Ever so slowly, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strategy for winning the 2015 election is becoming clear. It will be built on four pillars: Economic management and tax cuts; a hard-nosed approach to crime; a “principled” foreign policy that stands up to international tyrants and terrorists; and a simple mantra to discredit and...
Expert: Russia will use ‘humanitarian crisis’ as excuse to invade Ukraine
Cut off from the Russian border and under increasing pressure from Ukrainian military forces, the pro-Russian separatists’ stronghold of Donetsk could become the flashpoint for a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, an expert on U.S. and Russian national security predicted.. …read more Source: FOX...
NATO Chief to Russia: ‘Step Back from the Brink’
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is calling on Russia to “step back from the brink” of war in Ukraine by withdrawing thousands of combat troops massed on its border. “Step back from the brink, step back from the border and [do] not use peacekeeping as an excuse for war-making,” said Rasmussen during a visit to...
Canada will send non-lethal military supplies to Ukraine to help it protect border from Russia
Canada says it is sending non-lethal military equipment to Ukraine to help the country protect its eastern border against Russia. …read more Source: FOX...
Moves to Dismantle ‘Euromaidan’ Protest Tents in Kyiv Spark Clashes
Tensions flared on Thursday on Kyiv’s Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away their tents. The protesters set fire to heaps of tyres, sending clouds of black smoke billowing across the city...
NATO chief urges Russia to ‘step back from the brink’ of war
Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that further intervention in Ukraine would bring Russia greater isolation in the world …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russia Hits Back on Sanctions; Bans Food From West
MOSCOW—Russia banned most food imports from the West on Thursday in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, an unexpectedly sweeping move that will cost farmers in North America, Europe and Australia billions of dollars but will also likely lead to empty shelves in Russian cities. The announcement shows that while President Vladimir Putin...
Russia retaliates on West’s sanctions over Ukraine
Russia bans imports of meat, fish, milk and fruit from US, EU, Australia, Canada, Norway …read more Source:...
MH17 Update: Ukraine Crash Site Search Suspended As Fighting Escalates
The Netherlands prime minister has temporarily suspended search efforts at the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine forces picked up speed. Some 228 coffins carrying the remains of an unknown number of passengers have been returned to the Netherlands, but investigators continue to...
NATO aid to Ukraine likely to sharpen conflict with Russia
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Kiev on Thursday to offer help from the Western alliance to shore up Ukraine’s defenses as government forces close in on pro-Russia separatists in the embattled east of the country. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
