Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it is clear now that Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible for “heinous war crimes” following a surprise visit to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
The brief trip was supposed to be kept under wraps until after Trudeau left Ukraine, but local officials and media broke the embargo Sunday morning.
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INews, an independent news source in the UK, is reporting that a network of former Soviet sanatoriums and other sites in regions including Siberia, the Caucasus, the Arctic Circle, and the Far East, are housing Ukrainians forcibly removed from their homeland. Some of the camps are up to 5,500 miles from Ukraine.
Bono and The Edge perform surprise concert in Kyiv bomb shelter: U2 rockers entertain small crowd in subway station after being personally invited by president Zelensky
The last time war came to Uman, the city was occupied by the Nazis.
Now 83, Olga was only two years old when the soldiers arrived in her village.
We are sitting around a table in a Jewish community centre in Uman, a city slightly west of the centre of Ukraine. The walls of the centre are covered in smiling photos of family gatherings and a box of matzah stapled to a display of a shabbat meal.
Olga watches the tea in her cup gradually turn a bitter dark brown. She doesn’t touch the biscuits on the table. She lives just a few miles from where she was brought up.
What do you do when you have called a victory parade but have no victory to parade?
This is the question that Russian President Vladimir Putin faces as his faction factory prepares to churn out a gigantic street show in Moscow with Tsarist eagles with varvels bearing Volodya’s coat of arms.
The answer is that Putin is likely to keep the parade on May 9 and invent a victory to go with it. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, an erstwhile chum of Putin, even claims that Tsar Vladimir will declare victory in his war against Ukraine in tune with his cheat-and-retreat tactic of one step backwards to prepare for the next two steps forward.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that until the news broke this week of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, he didn’t know that many countries in Europe have abortion laws that are more restrictive than the current laws in the United States or laws that are being proposed in America.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is closely monitoring two new COVID-19 subvariants of Omicron, the highly transmissible variant of concern now dominant around the world.
Since January, more than 300 cases of the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages have been reported in several countries, according to data by cov-lineages.org. Most of those cases have been detected in South Africa.
As of May 3, Canada had detected three cases – two of BA.4 and one of BA.5, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) told Global News on Friday.
Wow! 3 cases! But a new wave?
When Joe Biden announced Karine Jean-Pierre would soon replace Jen Psaki as his press secretary, he naturally assumed the media would collectively swoon over the fact that he had picked a Black Lesbian Woman™ for such a high-profile position. Which, of course, they did. Biden clearly expects Jean-Pierre’s status as a black woman and a member of the LGBT community will protect her from scrutiny and criticism.
We still don’t have any confirmation as to whether or not Vladimir Putin plans to “officially” declare war on Ukraine tomorrow as Russians celebrate the anniversary of their victory over Hitler’s forces in World War 2 on Victory Day. But according to the head of the CIA, intelligence reports suggest that Mad Vlad certainly has no intention of calling it quits and bringing his troops home either.
It’s been a busy week. We checked my brother into the hospice.
As wheelman for my sister-in-law we have visited 4 times so far.
Saturday we stopped by Kathy’s resting place and wished her a Happy Birthday.
Next was Mom and Dad for Mother’s day then on to visit my brother.
My brother is doing well, very weak but determined to remain active.
He has so far taken part in the cooking and gardening activities, music class is next.
A friend wrote about how Kathy would put a humorous spin on the fact she was born on the day Northern Dancer won the Kentucky Derby. Her absentee Dad would always call and wish her a Happy Birthday on Derby day regardless of the actual date.
Kathy told me of the times her dad would take her to the track on visitation days if he bothered to show up at all. I attended her father’s funeral. He died penniless yet one of his low-rent Rat Pack pals chose the funeral to inform Kathy her Dad owed him 8oo bucks. I’m surprised Kath handled that as politely as she did. I have a photo of Northern Dancer given to K by her father, it may have been framed at one time but now it sits rolled up among her things.
I brought Kathy a cupcake with candle and some flowers yesterday. It was a lovely spring day for her birthday.
I was reminded how much Kathy loved High Park in the spring with its Cherry Blossoms and Chipmunks that she loved to feed.
I remember the annual Squirrel babies birth in the tree outside the front window of her tiny apartment. She was always so excited to have a front row seat to watch their progress.
Mostly I remember how lucky I was.
A retired teacher is filing a defamation lawsuit against Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) and its board chair for calling her “transphobic” and ordering her to stay home from school after she raised questions about the age-appropriateness of sexual content in children’s books in an elementary school library earlier this year.
Carolyn Burjoski, who worked as a WRDSB teacher for 20 years, announced her legal action in a video on May 4, saying that the incident exposed “a serious problem” that school boards are “using language and human rights legislations as weapons to silence anyone who questions their policies.”
“In my view, the message to all teachers is clear: ‘If you speak up, you will be punished,’” she said.
Members of Ukraine’s Azov battalion trapped inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant have said they fear they will be executed if captured by Russian forces, as they pleaded with Ukrainian authorities to help arrange their extraction.
Speaking to the media from inside the besieged steelworks, an Azov commander and lieutenant, looking gaunt and pale, said they had defended the city for the people of Ukraine and the rest of the world and needed a third party to negotiate their exit whether by land or sea.
There are believed to be 2,000 soldiers in the plant, 700 of whom are said to be injured.
No wonder Freeland is in Ukraine!
A group of radical pro-abortion activists blocked the entrance to Manhattan’s Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral days after a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion leaked that signaled the Court will overturn Roe v. Wade.
Whatever else Russia’s Victory Day parade is supposed to represent, it won’t be any sort of victory over Ukraine, regardless of the spin President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin will try to put on it, writes defence analyst Michael Clarke.
This war is one that Russia cannot win in any meaningful sense.
Putin’s foreign military successes around the world after 2008 were all achieved by using small units of elite forces, mercenaries and local militia groups alongside Russian air power.
This gave Moscow considerable leverage at low cost during interventions in Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Libya, Mali and twice in Ukraine during 2014, first in illegally annexing Crimea and then in creating self-declared Russian statelets in Luhansk and Donetsk.
