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Egypt under Sisi

Gwynne Dyer | 02/26/2015
Egypt under Sisi

The country's president needs some excuse for destroying Egypt’s democratic revolution, and the excuse is terrorism, the bigger the better.

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OPINION
Arming Ukraine is a bad idea
David Carment | 02/26/2015

Canada’s highest priorities should be Ukraine's corruption and economic instability, not its war effort.

2015: A fork in the road for Canada on foreign aid
Boris Martin | 02/25/2015

Bill Gates’ visit this week is a reminder of the importance of this year. Leadership is vital in determining Canada’s future role in global development.

Bill declares that the wrong side won the Vietnam War
Kim Dinh | 02/25/2015

Bill S-219 marginalizes hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese-Canadians. This is not what we came to Canada for.

Bill will do little to damage relations with Vietnam
Khanh Vu Duc | Duvien Tran | 02/25/2015

History should not be left to the victors, and the experiences of those who lost are no less valid.

The futility of war
Gar Pardy | 02/25/2015

Leaders see the invasion of another country as an easy short term policy. Canadians don't seem to understand the political manipulation underway.

Partnering with the private sector for humanitarian response
Nicolas Moyer | 02/23/2015

The needs of vulnerable populations surviving a catastrophe must be the driver of any partnership between an NGO and a corporate entity.

High hopes for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism
Daryl Copeland | 02/19/2015

Canada is playing a role in this new initiative set to examine the redesign of multilateral architecture.

No quick fixes in Ukraine
Chris Yonke | 02/19/2015

With 1.2 million Ukrainian-Canadians, and hundreds of millions announced in support, Canada is invested in the resolution of this conflict. Any solution will require a combination of security, economic, social and democratic capacities.

Eating for a sustainable future
Stuart Clark | 02/18/2015

Not eating enough food results in 800 million people globally facing hunger. But eating too much and the wrong kind of foods has driven more than twice as many people to be overweight or obese.

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COLUMNISTS
Gwynne Dyer
Greece loses, EU wins
03/02/2015

When the bailout extension deal was made public last month, Greece’s PM put the best possible face on it, saying that Greece had ‘won a battle, but not the war.’ In fact he lost the first battle, and will probably lose the war too.

Jim Creskey
We owe Angela Merkel a sincere thank you for the Ukraine peace deal
02/12/2015

It was her clear-headed vision of the exceptional danger of a proxy war breaking out between the world’s two nuclear-weapons states that may have saved the day.

Scott Taylor
Planning for war, but not the aftermath
02/25/2015

While everyone focuses on militarily defeating ISIS, no one seems to be discussing what form of authority will fill the power vacuum.

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