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Breaking: New Snowden Document Shows Something But We Don’t Know Exactly What
- 28 novembre 2013
The headline above is the one that I think probably best captures the content of the NSA document at the heart of the recent Toronto G20/G8 spying story. This appears to be the first in the additional trove of documents …
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There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade
- 28 novembre 2013
The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets where our companies have the potential to succeed. No, the problem is that this strategy now looms over …
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Iran is a Process. Pay Attention, Canada
- 28 novembre 2013
The interim Iranian nuclear deal is just that: interim. It is not the final word on the Iranian nuclear problem; it buys time for a permanent solution to be negotiated.
Iran has agreed to temporarily constrain its nuclear program in …
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Canada Must Hold Firm in Opposing US Efforts to Expand Intellectual Property Rights
- 27 novembre 2013
Our federal government seems hell-bent on signing as many new free trade and investment treaties as possible. We just completed one ‘in principle’ with the European Union (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA); we finalized one with Honduras …
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Two Tweets on Iran That Speak Volumes About Ottawa
- 26 novembre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2013
As months of negotiations between the “P5+1” world powers and Iran concluded on Saturday night with the announcement of a deal struck in Geneva, Canada’s role at this historic moment was …
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- 25 novembre 2013
by John Mundy
Published in The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2013
The earth moved Sunday in Geneva when the United States, its P5 plus 1 negotiating partners and Iran came to an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. …
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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott
- 18 novembre 2013
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which concluded on the weekend in Sri Lanka, was hotly debated over the past few weeks. Now that the meeting has ended, what impact has the boycott …
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Sexy Vanilla: Canada-EU Free Trade
- 14 novembre 2013
The same week that celebrity British street artist Banksy upset New Yorkers by saying the new World Trade Center is “vanilla…and looks like something they would build in Canada », an Economist headline stated, “Canada doesn’t get any sexier than …
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Canadian Foreign Policy for Dummies
- 12 novembre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 11, 2013
So it’s come to this: not only are Canadian citizens being dumbed-down by political parties who treat them as narrow-minded consumerist taxpayers, but now the leading lights of Canada’s journalism establishment …
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Rights to What Purpose? Free Speech and the U.S. Gun Control Debate
- 12 novembre 2013
This past week saw a fascinating moment in the debate over guns and constitutional rights that so scars America. The cause was a gentleman named Richard (‘Dick’) Metcalf. A ‘pro gun’ advocate and lobbyist, Metcalf has written op-eds and articles …
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As Nuclear Talks Progress, Baird’s Concern for Human Rights in Iran Rings Hollow
- 10 novembre 2013
Negotiations over the past three days in Geneva almost achieved a historic nuclear deal with Iran, and the parties’ concluding statements suggest there is a good chance a deal will be reached when talks resume on November 20.
Canada, however, …
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Missing in Action: What Happened to Canada’s Foreign Policy?
- 31 octobre 2013
In July 2011, shortly after Canadian voters handed the Conservatives a majority government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper observed that “since becoming prime minister…the thing that’s probably struck me the most in terms of my previous expectations—I don’t even know what …
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