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Does Canadian Diplomacy Need an Office of Religious Engagement?
- Analysis
- June 12, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 10, 2013 Depending on your view of Canada’s recently opened Office of Religious Freedom, you may or may not welcome the likelihood that a related idea from the U.S. State Department will be percolating its way northward. In recent years, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs (and its changing cast
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A New Chapter in US-China Relations?
- Analysis
- June 11, 2013
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have just concluded a two-day summit, which was described by U.S. officials as positive and constructive. The summit, held at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, just outside Palm Springs, was the first meeting between the two men since Xi became president in March. Both he and
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20th Century Laws Meet 21st Century Surveillance: Why Metadata Surveillance is a Serious Concern
- Analysis
- June 11, 2013
by Michael Geist Published on www.michaelgeist.ca, June 11, 2013. The concerns about telephone and Internet surveillance moved north yesterday as the Globe revealed that Canada has its own metadata surveillance program. The program was discontinued in 2008 after concerns that it could involve illegal surveillance of Canadians, but was secretly restarted in 2011. It is
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In Defense of Academic ‘Fiddling’
- Analysis
- June 10, 2013
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2013 Are political scientists failing to play their part as critics of the government in Canada? Lawrence Martin thinks so. Writing in the Globe and Mail last week, he lamented that academics are busy working on narrow research projects, instead of using their privileged positions to find fault
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