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Calgary Herald
19-07-2025
- Business
- Calgary Herald
'It's been a runaway success' — 5-year-old & his Dad sell out first Lemonade Day stand
Article content Lemonade Day is underway in Calgary, and entrepreneurs aged five to 13 are vying for the top prize in both a local and a national contest. Article content David Adamson, 5, was already sold out of lemonade by 10:30 a.m. Just as he and his dad, Jeff Adamson, were setting up their stand outside of Phil and Sebastian in Bridgeland, members of Sole Run Club came by and cleared out their supply. Article content Article content Article content 'One of the runners came over and asked if we were setting up and if we had lemonade,' Adamson said. 'Before we knew it, there was a lineup around the block.' Article content Most of the proceeds of David's stand will be going to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, but he'll also be setting some aside to buy a treat for his three-year-old brother. Article content 'It's been a runaway success, far beyond our expectations, and a great learning experience for my son,' Adamson said. 'He's loving it.' Article content Article content This year is David's first time participating in Lemonade Day, but he and his family have set up lemonade stands outside their house in the past. Article content David is one of more than 1,000 kids who are set up with their stands across the city, following hours of work on their branding and business plans. Prior to the big day, participants are guided through a self-directed learning program on an app. Article content The initiative first began in the U.S., and now takes place in multiple cities across North America. It was brought to Calgary in 2023 by Chantelle Little, founder and CEO of Tiller Digital. Article content 'The learning experience has just been amazing,' Adamson said. 'I can see the wheels turning in his head as he starts to understand, 'Oh, OK, if I sell all this lemonade, then we can help someone, or I can buy a treat for my brother.'
Time of India
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Ukraine has repressed Russian-speaking people: Envoy
Russian ambassador Denis Alipov R ussian ambassador Denis Alipov responded to one story ('If you take a gun to culture, you kill human spirit', July 4) in TOI 's eight-part series on price of war and fight for peace. Excerpts: The piece "If you take a gun to culture, you kill the human spirit" reflects a misunderstanding of causes and consequences of the ongoing conflict. Portrayal of the war as a 'self-inflicted wound for Russian society' is misreading events. Efforts to 'cancel Russia' have been central to policy in Kiev's regime that came to power following the 2014 coup. It has sought to marginalise Russian language, repress Russian-speaking population, dismantle monuments commemorating shared history, and persecute Ukrainian Orthodox Church. An example is the 2019 law that established Ukrainian as the sole state language, effectively outlawing official multilingualism in a country where Russian is the native tongue for at least one-third of the population. This was followed by the national minorities (communities) law that curtailed rights/ freedoms of ethnic Russians - this even drew UN's criticism. 'Derussification' includes demolition of monuments to figures like Alexander Pushkin and Catherine the Great, and repression of Ukrainian Orthodox Church including a de facto ban on its activities, and attempts to seize the sacred Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, a spiritual cornerstone in both countries. It's imperative to confront Kiev and its international sponsors, who've played a role in provoking the deadliest conflict in Europe since WWII. Their campaign has shattered peace & stability and damaged culture, historical memory, and people-to-people relations. Indeed, "taking a gun to culture" does kill the human spirit. But it's Ukraine, not Russia, that led this assault -- Russia sought to stop it by force only after its words fell on deaf ears.
ABC News
09-07-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
How The Dalai Lama's decision will test Trump, a crackdown on Russian propaganda in the Orthodox Church, and the legacy of the contraversial and charismatic preacher Jimmy Swaggart
The announcement by the Dalai Lama that he will have a reincarnated successor when he dies – and that his foundation along will identify the next leader of Tibetan Buddhism – is a major challenge to China, which occupies Tibet. It's also a challenge to the Trump administration, according to a former official. Randall Schriver served as Assistant Secretary of Defence. He says respecting the Dalai Lama's decision will test Donald Trump's commitment to religious freedom. Across Europe, governments are cracking down on clergy associated with the Russian Orthodox Church, accusing them of being propagandists, even spies for the Putin regime. Ukraine has stripped citizenship from the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, saying he answers to Moscow. Estonia has just passed a law forcing the local Orthodox to cut ties with Russia. It's also accused a group of nuns of spying. Just how deep does suspicion of the church run? He was the charismatic preacher in the sharp suit and flashy car, who preached personal purity – until he came undone in a sex scandal. Jimmy Swaggart was a global institution in the 1980s. He died a few days ago. GUESTS: RANDALL SCHRIVER served as Assistant Secretary of Defence in the Trump administration and Deputy Secretary of State in the Bush administration. He's currently the Chairman of the Institute for Indo Pacific Security in Washington DC. And co-authored China wants to pick the next Dalai Lama. Will democracies let it? served as Assistant Secretary of Defence in the Trump administration and Deputy Secretary of State in the Bush administration. He's currently the Chairman of the Institute for Indo Pacific Security in Washington DC. And co-authored China wants to pick the next Dalai Lama. Will democracies let it? ANDREW RETTMAN is a senior correspondent for the EU Observer. He's written extensively about espionage and the Russian Orthodox Church. is a senior correspondent for the EU Observer. He's written extensively about espionage and the Russian Orthodox Church. Dr LEAH PAYNE is a historian of charismatic Christianity at George Fox University and author of the book about Jimmy Swaggart God Gave Rock & Roll to You. This program was made on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation
Russia Today
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Kiev strips citizenship from head of largest Christian church
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has revoked the citizenship of the seniormost bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the SBU security agency reported on Wednesday. According to the agency, it has evidence that 80-year-old Metropolitan Onufry obtained Russian citizenship in 2002, and thus was no longer eligible to hold Ukrainian citizenship. Zelensky has reportedly ordered the church leader to no longer be considered a Ukrainian national, although his office has yet to publish the decree. Zelensky's government has been cracking down on the largest religious organization in Ukraine for years, claiming the measures are necessary due to the UOC's historic ties with Russia. The broad campaign of criminal investigations against the clergy has been accompanied by the seizure of property by supporters of the rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which is backed by Kiev. The UOC says it is being victimized by the government. The SBU alleged that Onufry 'deliberately opposed canonical independence of the Ukrainian church from the Moscow Patriarchy,' referring to the spiritual connection between the two churches originating from the times of Imperial Russia. The creation of the rival OCU in 2019 and its recognition by the Patriarch of Constantinople caused a major rift among world's Orthodox churches. The UOC has been de facto independent from Moscow since the 1990s, but maintained the canonical connection that lent it inter-church legitimacy. Last year, the Ukrainian parliament passed a law that effectively threatened a ban on the UOC unless it cut the spiritual link to Russia. The UN and international human rights organizations have accused Kiev of overreach and interference with the freedom of religion by mandating a specific way of worshiping God. DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Russia Today
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
The West seeks to ‘sacrifice Ukraine' – Bosnian Serb leader (VIDEO)
The West is using Ukraine to wage war against Russia, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik told RT on Wednesday. The president of Republika Srpska, an autonomous region within Bosnia and Herzegovina, was recently added to the 'enemy list' on Ukraine's state-linked Mirotvorets (Peacemaker) website. The database has been branded a 'kill list' after several public figures listed on it were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances. Dodik claimed that the US, UK, Germany, and other Western nations are seeking to provoke 'a war with Russia, sacrificing Ukraine' in the process. Ukraine had made 'many mistakes,' he said, including the persecution of its Russian-speaking minority, which ultimately led to the armed conflict. Dodik cited laws aimed at restricting the use of the Russian language in public life and attacks on the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church. 'Their political elite chose to provoke Russia, attempting to deny Russians their rights to language and faith on Ukrainian territory. That's why the Russian [military] operation is completely justified,' he said, adding that Moscow 'had the right to protect its people.' 'For the Ukrainian people, the most important thing is to achieve peace as soon as possible,' Dodik continued, rejecting allegations that he poses a threat to Ukraine as 'slander.' Russia has cited Ukraine's refusal to grant autonomy to the predominantly Russian-speaking republics of Donetsk and Lugansk – as outlined in the 2014–2015 Minsk agreements – as one of the root causes of the conflict. President Vladimir Putin has since demanded that Ukraine abandon its NATO ambitions and recognize Russia's new borders, including Crimea and the Donbass regions, which voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. In March, US Senator Marco Rubio described the Ukraine crisis as 'a proxy war' between the US and Russia. Moscow has also argued that Western military aid to Kiev makes NATO members 'direct participants' in the conflict.
