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Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand have declared their support for the U.S. 'acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada ‘abandoning’ international law with support for U.S. strikes on Iran, say former diplomats

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • Though Canada's approach to Iran has been 'well-aligned' with the United States for many years, Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has been reluctant to condemn any suspected violations of international law by President Donald Trump, note foreign policy experts.

Canada ‘abandoning’ international law with support for U.S. strikes on Iran, say former diplomats

NewsBY NEIL MOSS
  • Though Canada's approach to Iran has been 'well-aligned' with the United States for many years, Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has been reluctant to condemn any suspected violations of international law by President Donald Trump, note foreign policy experts.
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Failed asylum-seeker motion shows Conservatives ‘smelled blood in the water’ with minister, immigration as wedge issue, say politicos

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Polls show Carney’s riding a wave of support buoyed by global pressures, but Canadians also nervous about life at home

NewsBY JUSTIN S. CAMPBELL
Opinion

With global hegemony attacking the world order, what are middle powers like Canada to do?

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, right, has been arrested for ‘misconduct in public office,’ and is among the few mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein files who face arrest, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The fallout from Epstein

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • Some in the convicted pedophile’s vast network wanted free holidays, some of them wanted to rub shoulders with other famous people, some of them wanted to have sex with under-age girls. Whatever their tastes, Jeffrey Epstein satisfied them.

The fallout from Epstein

OpinionBY GWYNNE DYER
  • Some in the convicted pedophile’s vast network wanted free holidays, some of them wanted to rub shoulders with other famous people, some of them wanted to have sex with under-age girls. Whatever their tastes, Jeffrey Epstein satisfied them.

‘A fundamental shift’: new strategy an opportunity to grow domestic industrial base, say lobbyists

NewsBY SERGIY SLIPCHENKO
Parliamentary Calendar

McGuinty, Anand to speak at Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence March 4-5

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in 2018. What we are witnessing is not a ‘peace process’ but a proxy activity conducted between two ‘strong men,’ both of whom are committed to a zero-sum approach to negotiations, write Senator Stanley Kutcher and Ksenia Zubriy. White House photograph courtesy of Shealah Craighead

Canada’s global leadership, the ‘coalition of the willing,’ and Ukraine

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, KSENIA ZUBRIY
  • It’s time to demonstrate to those deploying the ‘might makes right’ approach to geopolitics that the rule of international law can be supported by collective action of middle power democratic states.  

Canada’s global leadership, the ‘coalition of the willing,’ and Ukraine

OpinionBY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, KSENIA ZUBRIY
  • It’s time to demonstrate to those deploying the ‘might makes right’ approach to geopolitics that the rule of international law can be supported by collective action of middle power democratic states.  

A diaspora caught between Ottawa’s Iran policy and Iran’s street protests

OpinionBY SASAN ISSARI

A diaspora caught between Ottawa’s Iran policy and Iran’s street protests

OpinionBY SASAN ISSARI
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand visited Washington, D.C., where delegations from more than 50 countries met to discuss international collaboration on critical mineral supply chains on Feb. 4. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

U.S.-proposed critical minerals trading bloc a ‘difficult sell,’ say natural resources experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • 'We're obviously in a stage where people treat American trade deals with skepticism,' says Heather Exner-Pirot, director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's energy, natural resources, and environment program.

U.S.-proposed critical minerals trading bloc a ‘difficult sell,’ say natural resources experts

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT
  • 'We're obviously in a stage where people treat American trade deals with skepticism,' says Heather Exner-Pirot, director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's energy, natural resources, and environment program.
Bill C-12 is ‘primarily designed to significantly reduce the rights of individuals wanting to come to Canada,’ says non-affiliated Senator Marilou McPhedran. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

‘Dangerous’ Bill C-12’s immigration changes give too much power to cabinet and department: Sen. McPhedran and legal rights groups

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI
  • The bill's proposal for a new timeline for refugee applications that would be in effect starting in 2020—more than five years prior to the bill even being passed—and the power to cancel large numbers of immigration documents at once are causing concerns.

‘Dangerous’ Bill C-12’s immigration changes give too much power to cabinet and department: Sen. McPhedran and legal rights groups

NewsBY TESSIE SANCI
  • The bill's proposal for a new timeline for refugee applications that would be in effect starting in 2020—more than five years prior to the bill even being passed—and the power to cancel large numbers of immigration documents at once are causing concerns.

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