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USA on verge of abandoning another key arms control agreement
February 4, 2019
On Friday, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, formally gave notice of America’s intention to withdraw from one of the last major nuclear arms control treaties, citing Russian cheating as the reason. Under the terms of the Treaty, it will take effect in 6 months. Coming a day after important new developments in EU efforts to counter […]
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Canada must champion non-military responses to global challenges
July 24, 2017
On June 6th, Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland gave an address to the House of Commons that outlined the government’s approach to foreign policy in the era of Donald Trump. By and large, the statement drew accolades from media commentators for championing a rules-based international order and Canada’s determination to play a key role within it, […]
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New UN treaty outlaws nuclear weapons
July 10, 2017
Friday, 7 July at the UN Headquarters in New York more than 120 countries adopted a landmark treaty to ban nuclear weapons. All nine nuclear-armed states, and all NATO members except the Netherlands, had refused to participate in the negotiations. “These states recognize that the ban treaty would represent a potent stigmatization of the nuclear weapons they […]
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Canadian diplomacy urgently needed for nuclear disarmament
July 28, 2016
The destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained in space or time. They have the potential to destroy all civilisation and the entire ecosystem of the planet. (International Court of Justice, 1996) In the days before the 71st anniversary of the horrific Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings , on August 6th and 9th respectively, […]
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