The UN and Turkey broker a Russia-Ukraine deal on grain exports, the climate crisis worsens, China threat inflation helps no one and we are going on a summer break!
Ukraine grain deal, climate crisis, China report and RI summer recess
Tag Archives: rethinking security
Time for Canada to get serious on rethinking security for a post-pandemic world
Western democracies should be leading the way on global solidarity, cooperation on global problems and security thinking that is dedicated to peace, human well-being and environmental sustainability.
No pandemic pivot in Canada’s defence budget
The federal budget tabled this week continues the pre-pandemic pattern of defence spending increases, which will do nothing to address the existential threats of climate catastrophe, the destruction of nature and nuclear armageddon.
Whistleblower protection, Palestinian rights, East/West flashpoints and more
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NATO report suggests Alliance still “brain dead”, more Canadian gun control and worries over Biden’s China policy review
Prepare to be inspired by some new thinking from ten leading peace researchers critiquing NATO’s vapid “reflections” on the next ten years; read details of new Federal gun control legislation and consider a trenchant critique of how President Biden is handling his China review.
UPDATED: Diplomats decry West Bank annexation plan, more security rethinking, Saudi debts and the PM’s “pregnant pause”
To help prepare the way for an urgently-needed fundamental reimagining of Canada’s role in building a genuinely global security architecture, our government needs to begin all-party and civil society ‘virtual’ consultations on the establishment of a Canadian International Centre for Peace, Order and Good Government.