.Chris Alexander 🌻: I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues

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This is the strategic intent of Moscow’s fascist regime, where Patrushev is now the de facto leader.

Embargo them & transfer all frozen assets to Ukraine.

Allies need to be all-in for Ukraine’s victory: full training, air defence & no-fly missions without further delay.

Quite so.

Supporting Ukraine’s victory is in our shared interest — the self-defence of our values, our institutions & the very ideas of justice & the rule of law.

As a Canadian, I support deploying
NATO troops & closing the sky in Ukraine.

ICYMI: Chris Alexander 🌻: I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues

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The tragedy is that western leaders, policy-makers & investors decided in 1991 that the Russian Federation was a non-aggressive, post-imperialist, non-expansionist partner that would contribute to strategic stability within the #P5 & United Nations Security Council & (after accession) G7 Italy &

“For the first fifteen years of this century, Canada’s annual immigration intake ranged from 220,000 to 260,000, though in 2010 we had 281,000, and in 2015, 272,000. From 2016 to 2019, between 286,000 and 341,000 newcomers arrived yearly. With the pandemic in 2020, this number

❗️🛡️ Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський urges world to help Kharkiv, claims 2 Patriot systems will fundamentally change situation – video pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/…

⚡️Good news from the Kharkiv region: the defense forces managed to return part of the positions captured by the enemy and capture the enemy fighters, - Commander 'Achilles' of the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade Yuriy Fedorenko

In Bykivnia, where I went on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, there are also Polish victims of the Katyn massacre. In 1940, the Soviet NKVD brutally executed them on Kremlin orders. The memory of the horrible times of terror compels us to work

There is still time to stop the Russian law and save Georgia’s sovereignty 🇬🇪 thehill.com/policy/interna…

As a result of these days and this week, we have strengthened our positions in the Kharkiv region. I thank the warriors of the 57th Motorized and the 82nd Air Assault Brigades.

Our forces are also effectively destroying the occupiers in the Donetsk direction, particularly near

🤺 🥇 Ukrainian female fencing team wins gold at the World Cup in Bulgaria pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/…

A few words from me about the Usyk-Fury fight. I don't usually watch boxing, but this fight was legendary.

Tonight, Oleksandr Usyk won another - and obviously his main - victory. He became the first absolute world heavyweight champion in the 21st century.

◾️ Sometimes you can

🇺🇦 Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk becomes an undisputed world heavyweight champion! We congratulate Oleksandr for his historic victory 🥊

Thank you to all athletes who proudly hold the Ukrainian flag and prove nothing can stop us.

#SportsDiplomacy

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In memory of the fallen.🕯️

Today is Remembrance Day. 🇫🇮

On the third Sunday of May, we remember those who have fallen in our nation’s wars.

Remembrance Day is a day commemorating all those who have died in or following wars on Finnish territory or involving Finland. ⁣

That sinking feeling: Ukraine reports the destruction of yet another Russian warship overnight as Vladimir Putin's beleaguered Black Sea Fleet continues to shrink

Ukraine making Crimea untenable for Russian forces, denying Russia the use of the decisive terrain of the War. Nowhere for Russians to hide their hq's, logistics, aircraft, naval facilities on this Peninsula which is the same size as Massachusetts.

Another bad day for the russian Black Sea Fleet.

Overnight, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a russian minesweeper Project 266M 'Kovrovets'.
Great job, warriors!

Rich and important lecture by Timothy Snyder on the centrality of the areas of today’s 🇺🇦 in European and global history. His Meri Lecture is well worth listening to. ICDS Tallinn #LennartMeriConference .