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Gun control, space security, Afghanistan and re-imagining Canada in the world
September 6, 2021
Our examination of the Liberal, Conservative, NDP and Green party campaign platforms highlights the urgent need for a new approach to developing and implementing Canadian foreign policy.
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NATO statement decrying nuclear ban treaty full of errors
November 30, 2017
On Wednesday, November 22nd, Rideau Institute President and former Disarmament Ambassador Peggy Mason testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence during its deliberations on Canada’s involvement in NATO. The entirety of her written submission can be accessed by clicking here. Part of her testimony focused in detail on the extraordinary statement issued in the name […]
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New publication on Canada and UN peacekeeping
November 16, 2017
With the United Nations Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial conference having taken place in Vancouver earlier this week, the World Federalist Movement Canada has released the 2017 edition of “The United Nations and Canada: What Canada has done and should be doing for UN peace operations”, a collection of ten articles by civil society experts on the state of Canada’s involvement with international […]
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RI President Honoured for Work on Nuclear Disarmament
October 26, 2016
UPDATE: CLICK Mason-award-comments FOR TEXT OF PEGGY MASON’S REMARKS UPON RECEIPT OF THE AWARD. Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (CNWC) has awarded Rideau Institute President and former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament to the UN, Peggy Mason, its 2016 Achievement Award: … for her ongoing commitment to a nuclear weapons-free world and for her persistent […]
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