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Undemocratic impulses? Who ya gonna call? Not Jimmy Carter!

| October 30, 2012

By the sound of it, the international observers of Sunday's Ukrainian parliamentary elections did manage to catch the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich getting up to some undemocratic naughtiness.

Their report, which the international media yesterday described as scathing, accused Yanukovich's Party of Regions of unfairly benefiting from excessive money from supporters, abuse of government resources to make it look good and heavily biased media coverage in its favour.

Racism rears its ugly head at Euro 2012

Michael Stewart

| June 8, 2012

The European football championship will kick off today when co-hosts Poland entertain Greece at noon EDT. The Euro 2012 finals will be the last time only 16 teams compete for the trophy, making it one of the most fiercely contested competitions in sport -- many teams in the top ten will not even make it out of the group stage.

Alberta tidbits: Can market-fundamentalist Wildrose Party be trusted to pull plug on high electricity costs?

David J. Climenhaga

| February 2, 2012

Now that the far-right Wildrose Party is poaching Alberta NDP policy, could we trust them to carry it out?

Doubtful, but you can hardly blame Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith for trying to exploit the near-universal outrage throughout Alberta at the province's shocking electricity prices.

These prices, cripplingly high now and showing no sign of abating thanks to the misconceived and hard-to-understand "deregulation" implemented by the catastrophic Ralph Klein government in the mid-1990s, nevertheless seem unable to inspire any subsequent Progressive Conservative government to do anything about them.

Can NATO, the Holy Roman Empire of our era, survive until 2025?

David J. Climenhaga

| December 2, 2010

Canada is spending billions and sacrificing the lives of many brave soldiers to shore up the NATO Alliance, which we are told has recently enjoyed a "major success" at its summit in Lisbon. We Canadians should be asking ourselves, however, if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization can survive even 15 years.

Holocaust By Bullets

Holocaust by bullets

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Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has spent the past 7 years searching for the truth about the largely unrecorded genocide in Ukraine during World War II.

In this feature documentary, Linden MacIntyre talks to Desbois about the passion that has redefined his life, and why the search for answers about what really happened still matters 65 years later

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Catering to minorities puts pressure on foreign policy

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Catering+minorities+puts+pressure+foreign+policy/1695307/story.html

What motivates Canadian Foreign Policy?