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What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide
- Analysis
- May 1, 2019
By Payam Akhavan and John Packer Twenty-five years ago, as young UN human rights officers working together in Geneva, we witnessed how the world watched and did nothing as close to a million Rwandan Tutsis were exterminated. Brimming with idealism and faith in international law, we were shocked at this catastrophic failure of political will.
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“If You Want to Kill Me, Please Kill Me Quick”
- Analysis
- April 12, 2019
The images, and voices, from Libya’s migrant detention centres are sickening. An online blog posted a letter written by an anonymous refugee from Darfur, detained in Libya. “RS” writes of having left his village, destroyed by the Janjaweed, to find “shelter” in an internally displaced persons’ camp where men were killed and women were raped.
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 1
- Analysis
- April 12, 2019
“We judge it very likely that Canadian voters will encounter some form of foreign cyber interference related to the 2019 federal election.” So says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s equivalent to America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ, in a report issued on 8 April 2019. In response, the Canadian government has been threatening to regulate
READ MORECyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 2
- Analysis
- April 12, 2019
Part 1 of this blog dealt with the fairly generic alarms raised by the CSE regarding election tampering by foreign cyber threats. As far as the specific threat to Canada is concerned, CSE says the following: “Since the 2015 federal election, Canadian political leaders and the Canadian public have been targeted by foreign cyber interference
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