Today’s blog includes some visionary women seeking to reduce nuclear risks, examines progress and backsliding on the long road to legal accountability for international crimes and looks at some important aspects of the Ministerial mandates just released.
Today we examine: why Canadian spies attacking cyber criminals is a bad idea, how our latest UN peacekeeping pledges fall short, whether the U.S. led Democracy Summit is an empty talk-fest and more, including some surprising Arms Control Award nominees.
NATO’s Strategic Concept review and the first Nuclear Prohibition Treaty meeting are golden opportunities for Canada to regain some diplomatic leadership. As for Ukraine, just getting on the right side of diplomacy will be a big step forward.
Today’s blog heralds the launch of a timely new Rideau Institute Report on Economic Sanctions and International Law, by inaugural Senior Fellow, Professor Craig Martin. Updates focus on Huawei and 5G, Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.
In response to our first fundraiser since the onset of the March 2019 lockdown, can you help us continue our strong, independent and fearless advocacy for a Canadian foreign policy “purpose fit” for the huge global challenges on climate, nature and nuclear weapons, we now face? (And note our blog is posted mid-afternoon on Friday now.)
In today’s blog, we examine the “unexpected” USA-China climate cooperation agreement, the interaction of climate and security, Canadian timidity in defending journalists under siege in India and the 100 year old history of the poppy and Remembrance Day in Canada.
