• The UN Security Council and Abdelrazik

    The UN Security Council and Abdelrazik

    Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik is on the U.S. Security Council’s Al Qaida sanctions committee list. His assets are frozen and he is subject to an international travel ban. His case generated substantial notoriety when the Canadian government resisted his repatriation from Sudan on the basis, among other things, of his listing. It has generated even more

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  • Taiwan’s Presidential Candidates and their Indigenous Platforms

    Taiwan’s Presidential Candidates and their Indigenous Platforms

    This essay first appeared on the Taiwan 2012 blog. Indigenous people, accounting for about 2% of Taiwan’s population, are unlikely to influence the 2012 presidential election outcomes. Nonetheless, the relative success of the candidates in indigenous communities may influence elections for the Legislative Yuan, which has a quota of six indigenous legislators. The way in

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  • What Should the G20 Accomplish in Cannes?

    What Should the G20 Accomplish in Cannes?

    On Thursday and Friday of this week, the leaders of the G20 will meet in Cannes to discuss the numerous problems that the world economy is currently experiencing. The big question on everyone’s mind is whether they will be able to restore some kind of confidence in financial markets as well as with consumers and

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  • Le règne du <i>On the Cheap</i> pour les F-35

    Le règne du On the Cheap pour les F-35

    par David Grondin Cela fait plusieurs années que les Forces canadiennes sont passées maîtres du faire beaucoup avec peu; le Canada fait peu d’envieux, mais son personnel est qualifié et réputé pour savoir tirer le maximum d’un matériel qui n’est pas toujours aussi performant qu’on serait en droit de s’y attendre. On peut avoir en

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