Toronto police and the illusion of safety
It is inconceivable that the department implicated in the deaths of many Black and Brown people with mental health issues is the same one tasked with keeping Torontonians safe.
To entice Canadian soldiers, give them the tools they need to do the job
The best way to address both the recruiting and retention dilemma for the Armed Forces would be to ensure our troops are equipped with modern weaponry.
Public inquiry ‘not useful’ to investigate foreign interference, it could harm international relations, national defence, national security, says Wark
Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it’s been tracked, and the steps it’s taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the ‘wrong issues.’ Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.
‘Veterans are not getting the services they need’: vets, mental health clinicians, and Veterans Affairs union sound alarm over new rehab services contract
Veterans Affairs’ assistant deputy minister Steven Harris says the department is still migrating veterans from the old contract into the new system, and it will take until summer to get everything running.
Don’t dumb down the China election meddling issue, stick to the facts
In response to the explosive reporting by The Globe and Mail and Global News on China’s attempted interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal election campaigns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, chaired by Liberal MP David McGuinty, to assess the extent of foreign meddling. He also […]
China’s interference in our elections is no surprise
While Canada has always practised ‘strategic engagement’ with China due to its economic importance, there have long been warnings of its malicious intent.
Leaks on China’s interference attempts ‘deeply damaging to Canadian democracy’: former CSE official
Neither the Conservatives or Liberals are helping to restore confidence in Canada’s elections by engaging in partisan politics.
Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship and the demise of arms control
Vladimir Putin’s irresponsible actions should not only remind the world of the coercive risks inherent in nuclear weapons, but also of the imperative to re-energize diplomatic efforts to repair the damage to arms control regimes. We will not regain nuclear peace of mind without such engagement.
Have CSIS leaders lost control of the spy agency?
Given the number of leaks, the onus is on CSIS senior management to comfort us that they have things under control at the spy agency and that it’s not being run by rogue elements.
Russia continues bluster after suspending nuclear-weapon treaty
Russian Ambassador Oleg Stepanov says two attacks on Engels air base ‘can be viewed’ as meeting the conditions where his nation could use nuclear weapons.
