• 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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  • Canada and UNDRIP: Moving Forward on Indigenous Diplomacy

    Canada and UNDRIP: Moving Forward on Indigenous Diplomacy

    The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on September 13, 2007, with 144 states in favour, 11 abstentions, and 4 votes against. Canada, like Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, originally voted against UNDRIP, but eventually changed its policy. In the March 2010 Speech

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  • The World Economy in Turmoil

    The World Economy in Turmoil

    Recession is again at the world economy’s door, with confidence plummeting and investors, businesses and consumers lacking the trust in the future that is necessary to create economic growth. In Europe, the euro crisis seemed to have reached some kind of denouement with last week’s deal on a revised second bail-out package for Greece, although

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  • Protection Racket

    Protection Racket

    The Responsibility to Protect may indeed protect some civilians, but unfortunately it also facilitates atrocities against others. Writing last week about the end of NATO’s mission in Libya, Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock proclaimed it as ‘A victory for the Responsibility to Protect’. But according to a report issued this weekend by Human Rights Watch,

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