Need to knowGood news, bad news: From comets to chocolate shortages We raise our thumbs and shake our heads at some of the week’s news
WorldThe end of Ukraine?Putin has dealt a punishing blow to Ukrainian independence. NATO’s inaction may only embolden him to do more.
OttawaDear Vlad, from Stephen Andrew MacDougall, ex of the PMO, imagines a letter from the PM to the Russian president
OttawaMemo to the PM: Treat Putin like IgnatieffTime to bring out the really effective tools: mockery, derision, deflation.
WorldUpdated: It’s time for tougher sanctions against RussiaLobbing rockets across an international border is generally considered an act of war
WorldIs Putin getting away with murder?Why even the condemnation that’s followed the downing of Flight MH17 won’t slow Putin’s ambitions.
SocietyVladimir Putin disses the Queen at D-Day eventsHis sulky, disdainful behaviour puts a damper on the 70th anniversary
WorldVladimir Putin cracks down on historians and Ukraine invasion criticsNew law would punish anyone who denigrates Russia’s second World War record
WorldUkrainians make a liar out of PutinElections reveal the far right is dead in Ukraine. The European Union is a different story.
World‘A threshold has been crossed’As Kyiv fights back against pro-Russian separatists, a civil war now looms—just as Putin had planned