Many Canadians may not have heard much about the ongoing war in Yemen, even as the country remains plunged in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. But international support is needed to keep the country afloat and the peace process moving along.
View More Yemen Can’t Afford to Lose Any More Peace Opportunities
IF there was any doubt about what a Donald Trump presidency means for the U.S. over the next four years, and by extension for all of us, there is little doubt now. In the first week…
View More Immigration has Nothing to do with TerrorismDespite the partisan brouhaha and accusations of weakness and betrayal directed at the Liberal government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision last week to withdraw jet fighters from the international anti-ISIS coalition was the correct one. …
View More Iraq is a Quagmire and Trudeau Knows It
In this season of sad anniversaries, as the 12-year-old ghosts of the invasion of Iraq enjoy a violent adolescence, the consequences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s armed intervention in Libya born five years…
View More Lamenting Yemen’s Destruction: A Cry for the PastWith the world at large impassive in its reaction to the Egyptian military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, the diametrically opposite responses from Syria and Turkey are perhaps the most telling. Syria’s President Bashar Assad…
View More Egypt coup may force Islamists to choose bullet over ballotIs the Arab Spring coming to a neighbourhood near you? That is the question on the minds of many Arab and Canadian citizens these days. Absent from the conversation that began in December, 2010, is…
View More Arab Spring comes to Canada