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Minister Goodale: Bill C-59 needs further amendments
April 9, 2018
Bill C-59 was supposed to fix the myriad problems created by its predecessor, the infamous Bill C-51, now Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015. Not so say civil society leaders Micheal Vonn and Tim McSorely: “Canadians were told that the new law would fix the old law. Instead, we got a bill that nominally addresses some concerns, […]
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Why Canada is right to send peacekeepers to Mali
April 3, 2018
20 months after the Justin Trudeau government formally pledged that Canada would re-engage in UN peacekeeping with up to 600 soldiers, 150 police and the provision of specialized equipment, an actual commitment to an actual mission was finally announced. The Aviation Task Force will include Chinook helicopters to provide urgently needed transport and logistics capacity […]
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The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons?
March 23, 2018
“Future historians may record summer 2017 as the beginning of the end of the nuclear age.” So begins a masterful article by Paul Meyer and Tom Sauer on how the historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, aka the Ban Treaty, came about and its implications for bringing humanity closer to a world without […]
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What evidence does the UK actually have that Russia is behind the nerve agent attack?
March 16, 2018
Is it happening all over again? Are technical experts being coerced by politicians to sign on to what are, at best, misleading statements? Here is a summary of the official story right off of the BBC website: “The British government is expelling 23 Russian diplomats after Moscow refused to explain how a nerve agent was used against […]
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