Archive » Tag: peaceful resolution of disputes
Ukraine and the UN Charter, China and climate change, the Sudan horror and much more
July 2, 2023
Our focused look today is on Ukraine and the UN principle calling for the peaceful resolution of conflicts. We also contrast Chinese progress on reaching its climate change goals with Canada’s lagging record, update the foreign interference saga and consider the race against time to halt the horror in Sudan.
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A foreign policy worthy of Canadians
October 21, 2019
Canada needs a government that is not just willing but eager to ensure we do our part in tackling the myriad challenges facing our global community. We are all in this together, at home and in the wider world beyond Canada.
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NATO leaders should champion nuclear restraint and dialogue
July 9, 2018
Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev at 1987 Washington Summit Our previous blog called on Prime Minister Trudeau to resist Trump’s bullying over yet more defence spending and to ensure that the Final Communiqué from NATO leaders contains no support for American proposals to lower the threshold for first use of nuclear weapons. See: Trudeau must hold […]
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Defence policy review misses big picture
May 24, 2016
Paul Meyer, a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament, is now a Senior Fellow in Space Security and Nuclear Disarmament at the Simons Foundation. In his recent article, Defence policy review too narrow on cyber, space (The Hill Times, 18 May 2016), he demonstrates how our defence review is being dangerously skewed by the lack of […]
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