Canada has a role helping overcome information poverty
Information poverty is when people don’t have access to reliable, trustworthy, and accurate information that can help them make informed decisions about their everyday lives.
Progressive Afghan women in dangerous limbo, while we wring our hands uselessly
Can Canada not, at least, rescue individual women, especially those who worked with Canadians on various women’s ’empowerment programs’ during the war? You would think so, but it isn’t happening quickly enough for a group of six MPs, from all parties, who have been lobbying government since October to get eight especially vulnerable Afghan women to safety.
Canada’s feminist international assistance policy should be a catalyst for very important questions
The bodies in charge of international development do not focus on making structural changes to the global economic system and instead put the responsibility on Global South women to make the current system work for them.
Experts eager to see Canada’s African strategy brought forward to address perception of neglect
‘The truth of the matter is it is a policy that should have been crafted yesterday,’ says University of Western Ontario professor Thomas Tieku.
Feds must reverse volatile footprint in Indo-Pacific region with release of $2.3-billion plan, say experts
Canada needs to address a history of inconsistent engagement in the Indo-Pacific if the new strategy and funding are to be effective, experts say.
Canada should bring back children trapped in Syria
The greatest danger for Canada is not accepting the return of children from the camps in northeast Syria. It’s leaving them there, writes Jo Becker.
Four decades later, global hunger still trending
Oct. 16 marked 43 years since the establishment of World Food Day. Yet in 2022, the world is hungrier than ever, with hundreds of millions unable to access enough nutritious food to eat every day. Conflict, climate change and economic shocks have reduced food production and disrupted the supply of affordable nutritious food. With this […]
Global effort needed to confront unprecedented flooding and climate change, says Pakistani envoy
As unmatched flooding has displaced millions and led to the deaths of more than 1,200 people, Pakistan’s top diplomat in Canada is calling for an international effort to help address the immediate crisis and to help his country’s recovery. The flooding, which has been caused by an atypically heavy monsoon season and the melting of […]
Canada must decriminalize aid to Afghanistan to save lives
It’s been almost a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan. Before that, Afghanistan was already a country where 19.7 million people faced severe food shortages, and since then, the situation has worsened. Our organizations—World Vision and Islamic Relief—have been successfully operating on the ground in Afghanistan for decades irrespective of whatever government happened to […]
Canada and the G7 can act now to save lives and prevent famine
As the G7 development ministers meet in Berlin on May 18, hundreds of thousands are facing catastrophic hunger in Yemen, South Sudan, and Somalia. The G7 ministers should urgently act to prevent famine and commit to three things: giving more and acting early to meet immediate needs and investing in food security for the long […]
