Your hosts, Terry, Levon, Marc (video of show at bottom) Intelligence suggests Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran, says Trudeau The tragic crash of the Ukrainian jetliner this week in Iran was not caused by some technical problem but was… »
Highlights / Year: 2020
Flight PS752: Canadians mourn the loss of family, friends and lovers
It’s been a week of immense sadness across Canada [/caption]
Canadian economy added 35,000 jobs in December
Economists breathed a sigh of relief on Friday as the latest Labour Force Survey by Statistics Canada showed that the country’s economy added 35,000 new jobs in December, bringing the total for the year 2019 as a whole to 320,000.… »
Marilyn Gladu enters the Tory leadership race
Ontario Member of Parliament Marilyn Gladu has entered the Conservative Party leadership race. She joins Ottawa businessman Bryan Brulotte as one of only two candidates who have officially declared themselves in the race to succeed Andrew Scheer when the party… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Canadian animal rescue team set to head to Australia
A Canadian animal rescue team is heading to Australia next week to try to help creatures trapped and fleeing the wildfires in that country, joining other Canadians–mainly firefighters–who have been helping out since early December. Estimates differ on how many… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
It’s back! The pants are off! No pants subway returns
If you’re in any one of dozens of major cities around the world, you might be a bit surprised to see handfuls of riders on the public transit system in their underwear this Sunday afternoon. This is part of a… »
Intelligence suggests Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran, says Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says intelligence evidence suggests the Ukrainian passenger aircraft that crashed outside of Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, including 63 Canadians, was shot down by an Iranian missile. “We have intelligence from multiple… »
Celebrating VE Day in coin
An important commemorative date is approaching, the 75th anniversary of VE-Day, or Victory in Europe, which ended the horrors of the Second World War. The Royal Canadian Mint has just released a series of commemorative coins to mark the occasion.… »
Fate and failed diplomacy: why so many Canadians were on PS752
Why were so many Canadians–and so many students–on Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752? For an answer, we must go back a bit in time. Canada and Iran have long had a fraught relationship that includes fallout from the 1979 Iran… »
Canada presses Iran to grant access to Ukrainian jet crash investigation
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne spoke to his Iranian counterpart late last night, pressing him to grant Canadian officials immediate access to the site of the fatal Ukraine International Airlines plane crash that killed all 176 people aboard, including… »
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