CBC News reports details of the new Canadian training mission in Afghanistan (James Cudmore, “Canada’s Afghan training mission details revealed,” CBC News, 17 May 2011): …
U.K. nukes to balance North Korea, Pakistan?
U.S. aerospace and defence magazine Aviation Week has succeeded in inventing the world’s most ridiculous justification for Britain’s “independent nuclear deterrent”–which is no easy feat …
No war in Arctic: Harper
Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables show that Prime Minister Harper’s frequent scare talk in support of a greater Canadian military presence in the Arctic is just …
Experts urge Canadian leadership on nuclear ban
From a meeting in Ottawa last month (“Experts urge Canadian leadership to ban nuclear weapons,” 18 April 2011): The Canadian government should join a new …
McQuaig on UN Emergency Peace Service
Linda McQuaig talks to independent researcher Peter Langille about the proposal for a United Nations Emergency Peace Service (Linda McQuaig, with Katie Addleman, “Linda McQuaig …
New foreign policy website launched
Collaboration among civil society actors has been a key ingredient in numerous foreign policy achievements in Canada, including the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines and the …