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Latest on ICC, press freedom and Canada-Israel cooperation on public security
July 6, 2020
As jurisdictions across the country are grappling with calls to fundamentally reform our police services, we urge the Government of Canada to urgently review public security cooperation agreements with Israel in that light.
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Afghanistan, Canada and the ICC; Iran, Sanctions and International Women’s Day
March 9, 2020
In light of the new ICC Afghanistan investigation, Prime Minister Trudeau should launch a long-overdue public inquiry into Canada’s policies and practices relating to the transfer of hundreds of detainees to Afghan authorities during Canada’s military mission in that country.
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When it comes to Venezuela, Canada must uphold UN Charter
February 11, 2019
For those not carefully searching out alternative sources of commentary on Venezuela, the overwhelming media narrative, until very recently, has portrayed President Maduro as a tyrant, presiding over illegitimate elections and a humanitarian crisis entirely of his government’s own making. The Sakar interview with leading economist Michael Hudson reveals an entirely different story – one […]
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Our common global humanity is on the line.
December 21, 2018
(Photo credit: Ceasefire.ca) We increasingly confront a world where greed, coercion and bribery trumps human rights and our common global humanity. Our Foreign Minister has talked passionately about the USA abandonment of its leadership role in championing the “rules based international order”. Yet the real threat is not American isolationism, but the Trump administration’s relentless […]
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