Increased longevity needed for Canada’s foreign minister, says past top diplomat Baird
Canada has had 13 foreign affairs ministers and two acting ministers over the last 23 years.
Public inquiry ‘not useful’ to investigate foreign interference, it could harm international relations, national defence, national security, says Wark
Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it’s been tracked, and the steps it’s taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the ‘wrong issues.’ Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.
Canada must stop supporting Israel in illegal settlement of Palestinian land
It is essential that Justin Trudeau make it clear that Canada will not tolerate human rights abuses regardless of who is responsible. A strong stance against injustice can help to ensure peace and security for all people in the region, writes Mukarram Zaidi.
Pope Francis focuses his remaining energies on Ukraine battlefield
Seldom in the modern history of the Catholic Church has a pope been plunged into both external and internal crises at the same time.
Don’t dumb down the China election meddling issue, stick to the facts
In response to the explosive reporting by The Globe and Mail and Global News on China’s attempted interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal election campaigns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, chaired by Liberal MP David McGuinty, to assess the extent of foreign meddling. He also […]
We must stand up for Ukraine, human rights and justice, writes Niagara Falls reader
The conception of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gave birth to human rights as they are known today. The UN Declaration was officially adopted on Dec. 10, 1948, as a bilingual document in English and French, with official translations in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish, all of which are official working languages of the UN. Due to its […]
It’s complicated and revealing: colonial Ireland and the making of Canada
The revelation for me in reading Fifty Irish Lives is that the Irish in Canada were a product of colonialism. The distinction is profound. Immigration is a spontaneous, voluntary movement of people from one country to another. Britain’s colonization of Ireland generated a three-centuries long outpouring of people. Immigration was more outcome than cause.
Turkish diaspora calls on immigration minister to fast-track visas, family reunification for earthquake survivors
Yusuf Celik, a New Brunswick resident on a two-week compassionate leave in his native Turkey, said that non-governmental relief workers he has spoken with on the ground believe the death toll from recent back-to-back earthquakes there ‘will be at least 100,000 people.’
GG, diplomats rally for Ukraine
On Feb. 20, Governor General Mary Simon joined the Friends of Ukraine Diplomatic Group, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian National Federation, and Café Ukraine for a solidarity rally in Ottawa on the Flora Footbridge, where the assembled crowd unfurled a 30-metre-long Ukrainian flag ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
Korea throws pair of parties
