Unpublished Newswire

I’ve been following the New Democratic Party leadership contest on and off— on when it’s interesting and off the rest of the time. It’s more interesting than you might think. The race doesn’t seem to be a coronation, there are strategic and ideological differences between the candidates, and everyone seems to be raising money. The fundraising numbers suggest that there’s more interest in the party than you might expect or have predicted a few months ago, when so many people were writing off the orange side as a goner. By the end of March, the party will have a new leader and, one hopes,...

The Canadian soldier’s cries are anguished, made all the more poignant by the fact he’s recording the sounds with his own Go-Pro camera. “My foot is f—ed. Help me,” he shouts into the darkening Ukrainian forest, no-man’s land between friendly and Russian lines, before groaning in agony. “Hey, someone, come help me.” The 21-year-old fighter and medic in Ukraine’s Khartia Corps, identified only as Cooper, had just stepped on a Russian land mine, then tightened a tourniquet around his mangled leg to stem the bleeding. But his appeals that day last fall were in vain and no aid came. So...