Today is International Day of Democracy. Yet, the western world seems to have lost hope of the very fundamentals we are supposed to hold dear…
View More Wake Up Democracy!Tag: United Nations
Joining the War Train: Trump’s Liberal Cheerleaders
At the psychological heart of every liberal is a milk soft tendency to succumb to the authoritarian personality, a feeling that, just around the corner,…
View More Joining the War Train: Trump’s Liberal CheerleadersRisking War with Iran Over Nothing
THE Trump administration appears to be renewing the possibility of violent confrontation with Iran using a questionable pretext — Iran’s testing of conventional missiles. No…
View More Risking War with Iran Over Nothing
UN Chief Praises Canada’s Model for Resettling Refugees
Canada’s use of both government and private sponsors to help Syrian refugees resettle is a model that should be exported around the world, the head…
View More UN Chief Praises Canada’s Model for Resettling Refugees
Dion: Canada Will Lift Sanctions on Iran
Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion told the House of Commons Tuesday that Canada will follow calls from the United Nations to reverse its unilateral sanctions…
View More Dion: Canada Will Lift Sanctions on Iran
Canada Must Open Its Door Without Discrimination
Sixty-seven years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 50 years after the adoption of the two Covenants, which along with…
View More Canada Must Open Its Door Without DiscriminationRefugees – Buzzword of the Year and Deservedly So
Every day, we see pictures and videos of families desperately crossing the sea to escape war and poverty back home. Hundreds of refugees are interviewed…
View More Refugees – Buzzword of the Year and Deservedly SoCanada, Be Humble About Intervening Abroad: Experts
Canada needs to know it limits before its next intervention abroad, be it military or humanitarian. And be humble about it. This is the message…
View More Canada, Be Humble About Intervening Abroad: ExpertsIs the Global Reaction to the Syrian Crisis Out of Proportion?
Several major humanitarian agencies have announced plans to expand, launch and upscale operations in response to the European refugee crisis in the past month. Faced…
View More Is the Global Reaction to the Syrian Crisis Out of Proportion?The Mediterranean Crisis: An Open Letter to World Leaders
A child should not have to die to mobilize governments into credible action. The photograph of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s body washed ashore, which has mobilized…
View More The Mediterranean Crisis: An Open Letter to World Leaders