Putin claim Ukraine has chemical arms hints he’ll use them

It’s three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine and with Putin’s army more or less stalled there’s concern that he might resort to chemical weapons. It hardly seems thinkable but ominously he is accusing others of getting ready to do it. It’s how he justifies his aggression to the Russian people. Tuesday the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Moscow and Ukraine to negotiate an end to the war

How NATO has grown since the fall of USSR

Some say NATO threatens Russia but most of those countries that have sought NATO membership since 1990 did so because they had just been freed from being run by the Kremlin. They don’t want that to happen again.

NDP will “support” the Liberals til 2025

NDP support for a minority Liberal government hardly seems like stop-press news but it’s today’s news. And there will be a reason why the NDP says it will support the Trudeau government. Any guesses about as-yet-unannounced policy?