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Sanctions relief, rethinking global priorities and Mel Watkins In Memoriam
April 6, 2020
Brilliant left wing economist Mel Watkins, a former RI Board member, warned us of the corrosive effect that multinational corporate power would have on our democracies.
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We call on Canada to work with Europe to save the INF Treaty
November 5, 2018
Under the malign influence of U.S. national security advisor John Bolton, who views international law as a tool of the weak, President Trump has recently announced his intention to “terminate” the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. This landmark nuclear arms control agreement helped end the Cold War arms race by banning an entire class of destabilizing U.S. and […]
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Canada foot-dragging on nuclear disarmament
June 5, 2017
In a 31 May article in the Hill Times, former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Douglas Roche castigates the Canadian government for continuing to drag its feet on nuclear disarmament, even as over 130 UN member states are in the midst of negotiating a legally binding treaty to ban nuclear weapons. For a subscriber link to […]
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