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  • 20 Sep 2021
    • Canada

    Trudeau’s test: Taking stock of a foreign policy legacy

    Edward McCann
    The Canadian PM pivoted towards the Asia-Pacific, but has struggled to find tangible success.
  • 14 Sep 2021
    • Global Issues
    • China
    • Canada

    Fears China will play games with the 2022 Winter Olympics

    Colin Peebles Christensen
    Beijing’s practice of arbitrary arrest and “hostage diplomacy” is prompting a backlash that may lead to a boycott.
  • 6 Sep 2021
    • Canada

    Trouble for Trudeau

    Grant Wyeth
    An early election has left Canada’s PM in a pickle with a pandemic exhausted public also tired of personality politics.
  • 2 Jun 2021
    • Canada

    A resounding “oui” for an emoji in Canada

    Grant Wyeth
    After a new bill to protect French raises separatist jitters, Quebec nationalism gets everyone behind the flag.
  • 16 Feb 2021
    • Diplomacy
    • India
    • Canada
    • Coronavirus

    India, Canada and the new vaccine politics

    Grant Wyeth
    As a pharmaceutical powerhouse, India finds it now holds the cards over Canada and what it sees as its irksome PM.
  • 19 Jan 2021
    • China
    • Canada

    Wrong place, wrong citizenship: The tribulations of the “Two Michaels”

    Kim Richard Nossal
    China’s coercion in a broader geopolitical struggle continues to hold very personal consequences.
  • 27 Jul 2020
    • Diplomacy
    • United States
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • United Kingdom
    • Canada

    Five Eyes: Blurring the lines between intelligence and policy

    Ben Scott
    Intelligence sharing is one thing. Aligning policy with the same brand risks making too exclusive a grouping.
  • 1 Jul 2020
    • United States
    • China
    • Canada

    Canada won’t fall for China’s hostage diplomacy

    Grant Wyeth
    Releasing Meng Wanzhou wouldn’t raise Canada’s standing with China. Worse, it would betray its closest partner.
  • 23 Jun 2020
    • United Nations
    • Canada

    Woe Canada, a second consecutive UN rebuff

    Ramesh Thakur
    Even in a social media age, substance trumps style. There are lessons for Canberra in Ottawa’s Security Council failure.
  • 23 Sep 2019
    • Canada

    Canada’s Indo-Pacific pivot

    Grant Wyeth
    Canada has long looked across the Atlantic but the pull of the Pacific flank is growing stronger.
  • 22 Jan 2019
    • United States
    • China
    • Canada

    The fate of three Canadians may now rest with Donald Trump

    Donald R Rothwell
    Beijing can justifiably be concerned about the detention of a citizen, but not hold foreigners in arbitrary retaliation.
  • 13 Dec 2018
    • China
    • Canada

    Playing the hostage card: the Meng Wanzhou & Michael Kovrig cases

    Kim Richard Nossal
    <p>China’s tit-for-tat diplomacy with Canada has a recent precedent, yet Donald Trump is hardly helping.</p>
  • 22 Oct 2018
    • Canada

    Canada and Huawei: letting politics slip in

    Kim Richard Nossal
    Canada's decision to allow Huawei to participate in its 5G mobile networks is much more political than the PM suggests.
  • 8 Aug 2018
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Canada

    Saudis try block Canada’s feminist foreign policy

    Grant Wyeth
    An online spat has escalated into a formal diplomatic break in a test of the values professed by the Trudeau government.

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