FEISTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE GIVES AMERICANS A LOOK AT PAUL RYAN
It was a lively night in Danville, Kentucky, as U-S Vice president Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan squared off in their only televised debate of the American election campaign. The pair squabbled...
View ArticleHARPER SAYS CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT U.S. “FISCAL CLIFF”
The Prime Minister says he is worried about the impact on Canada if US officials can’t agree on a new budget that would halt the so-called “fiscal cliff” that threatens to yank the US economy back into...
View ArticleOBAMA URGES WEALTHY OWNERS AND PLAYERS TO END NHL LOCKOUT
Even U.S. President Barack Obama is frustrated by the 3-month old NHL lockout. Obama told a Minneapolis TV station he won’t get his government involved in ending the labour dispute, but he is urging...
View ArticleUS APPROACHING THE FISCAL CLIFF
Discussions on the averting the financial fiscal cliff in the US are not proceeding well. And the finger-pointing continues. U-S House Speaker John Boehner is leading the negotiations for the...
View ArticleOBAMA TURNS STATE OF THE UNION INTO STATE OF THE ECONOMY
The President of the United States used last night’s State of the Union address to focus on the state of his country’s economy. Barack Obama told the joint session of the US Congress that the United...
View ArticleBOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGS PROMPT SECURITY REVIEWS FOR GTA MARATHONS
U.S. federal authorities are looking for suspects and a motive in yesterday’s terror attack at the Boston Marathon finish line. The twin bombings killed 3 people, wounded more than 140 and triggered...
View ArticleNORTHERN IRELAND G8 TO WRAP WITH PROMISE TO COMBAT TAX EVASION AND STATEMENT...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper chatted briefly with U.S. President Barack Obama today on the closing day of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. The encounter was a quick one, just over 10 minutes, after...
View ArticleEVIDENCE SHOWS CHEMICAL WEAPONS USED IN SYRIA’S ATTACK ON CIVILIANS: UN ENVOY...
Evidence is mounting that chemical weapons were used in the attack, which activists say killed hundreds of people in Syria a week ago. The UN envoy to Syria has reported that the evidence points to...
View ArticleCANADA TAKES WAIT AND SEE ATTITUDE FOR POSSIBLE U.S. LED MILITARY ATTACK ON...
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says U.N. inspectors investigating the alleged chemical attack in Syria will be leaving the country on Saturday. Ban is once again asking for western nations to give...
View ArticleU.N. INSPECTORS WRAP UP PROBE OF ALLEGED CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK IN SYRIA
U.N. inspectors in Syria are due to wrap up their investigation today into the alleged use of chemical weapons near Damascus last week. They’ve spent this week looking into allegations that the Syrian...
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NELSON MANDELA’S DEATH PROMPTS AN OUTPOURING OF TRIBUTES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
In South Africa, ten days of mourning are underway for Former President Nelson Mandela. The anti-apartheid icon who led his country’s transition from white-minority racist rule died yesterday at the...
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OBAMA PROMISES TO GO IT ALONE IN RAISING WAGES OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO AT...
Siding with America’s struggling middle class, U.S. President Barack Obama says he will go it alone if necessary in raising the minimum wage for some federal workers. “In the coming weeks, I will...
View ArticleRUSSIA EMBRACES CRIMEA REFERENDUM WHILE DIPLOMACY CONTINUES TO RESOLVE CRISIS...
As diplomatic efforts continue to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, the speaker for Russia’s upper house of parliament says Crimea would be welcome as an “equal subject” in Russia if the region votes to...
View ArticleUKRAINE’S NEW PM TO MEET THIS WEEK WITH OBAMA IN WASHINGTON AS CRIMEA...
The standoff in Ukraine continues. Russia has beefed up its military presence in Crimea, where a referendum is planned for this Sunday on whether to join Russia or stay as part of Ukraine. Ukrainian...
View ArticleCANADA’S EUROMAIDAN COMMITTEE ATTEMPTS TO RAISE $1-MILLION FOR HUMITARIAN...
Ukraine’s prime minister is in Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama today. Arseniy Yatsenyuk is calling on the West to defend Ukraine against Russia. Moscow has sent troops into...
View ArticleURUGUAYAN AUTHOR CHANGES MIND ON LATIN AMERICA MANIFESTO
Life experience has led to a change of mind for 73 year old Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Forty years ago, he wrote The Open Veins of Latin America which has been embraced as the anti-colonialist,...
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HILLARY CLINTON HAS FEW REGRETS DURING TIME AT U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT, NEW...
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she wishes she could go back and revisit some of her decisions but she is “proud of what we accomplished” at the U.S. State Department. Clinton writes in an author’s note...
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89 YEAR OLD JOCK HUTTON RELIVES PARACHUTE JUMP INTO NORMANDY ON 70TH...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is among the world leaders gathered to speak at one of the world’s most sacred battlegrounds to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day. On June 6th 1944, about 150,000...
View ArticleKERRY DOESN’T RULE OUT TALKS WITH IRAN OVER CRISIS IN IRAQ
Close to 300 U.S. armed forces are being positioned in and around Iraq to help secure American assets. U.S. President Barack Obama is said to be nearing a decision on such options as airstrikes for...
View ArticlePUTIN ISSUES 4TH OF JULY MESSAGE TO OBAMA AMID ONGOING UKRAINE CRISIS
On this 4th of July, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told U.S. President Barack Obama in an Independence Day message that he hopes the countries can improve relations. In a statement published on...
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