Turkey’s Prime Minister announced Tuesday that any Syrian armed forces approaching its borders would be perceived and treated as a direct military threat.
According to the Associated Press NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen backed Turkey’s position without confirming armed support.
Tensions between Turkey and Syria boiled over last week after the downing of a Turkish reconnaissance jet by Syrian state forces....
Canada was officially welcomed to join negotiations on a new major international free-trade agreement. According to Postmedia News Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday that Canada was given the go ahead to join Trans-Pacific Partnership talks.
The TPP trade bloc is comprised of nine members states whose goal is to ease Asia-Pacific trade. Canadian business groups have come out in support of the move that will give them access to a market of over six hundred million people.
TPP member states are...
Only ten more hours left to debate Bill C-38 in parliament. According to the CBC a ten-hour time limit was passed yesterday with one hundred and fifty seven Conservatives voting yay and one hundred and thirty five opposition members voting nay.
Bill C-38 implements the Conservative’s March budget as well as seventy other laws affecting environmental regulation, employment insurance and immigration. The time limit is intended to ensure that voting is complete before parliament’s summer recess.
Opposition parties...
Wisconsin’s Republican governor survived a recall vote brought on by union leaders and public sector workers.
According to the BBC Republican Governor Scott Walker defeated Democratic challenger Tom Barrett by a margin of seven per cent. He is the first elected governor to survive a recall vote in U.S history.
The challenge was preceded by weeks of angry protests over Walker’s decision to curtail the...
The Athens Stock Exchange plunged to a twenty-two year low Tuesday.
According to the CBC depositors removed 700 million euros from Greece’s banks amid the country’s latest political stalemate. Talks to form a governing coalition have failed following the inclusive results of last week’s election. Greeks are expected to go back to the polls mid June.
The Conservative PASOK party and left wing...
