Section: US & Canada
Canada’s PM Harper, FM Baird, on Ukraine and Russia’s ‘provocations’
Listen After a meeting with several East European ambassadors in Ottawa, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird once again condemned Russia for its most recent actions in Ukraine. Reports of pro-Russian separatists taking over buildings in eastern Russia on the weekend fuelled more of the Canadian...
Russia imposes retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadians
Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed retaliatory sanctions on 13 Canadian officials including five members of the Conservative government, three opposition party members, and the president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, banning them from entering Russia. A statement on the sanctions was issued Monday (March 24). Russia’s...
Canada’s PM Harper condemns ‘unilateral’ actions of ‘Putin regime’
Listen Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced more economic sanctions against Russia on Monday (March 17) during a meeting with Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Vadym Prystaiko in Ottawa, and condemned the “illegal, dangerous, unilateral actions of the Putin regime in the Crimea”. On Sunday, the Prime Minister had called the...
