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INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMICS, TRADE AND APPROACHES TO GOVERNMENT
Remarks by Hon. David Kilgour. J.D.
Canadian International Council/Conseil International du Canada, Victoria Branch
Changing Dynamics in Canada – U.S. Relations
Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria May 12-13, 2008
According to a legend, in creating the world, God gave to Canada British Columbia, the Gulf Islands, the Rockies […]

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May 11
Don’t coddle Beijing - it must account for its role Darfur: Roméo Dallaire
Many consider it taboo to speak of the genocide in Darfur and the upcoming Beijing Olympics in the same breath. I disagree entirely. I believe the two should be firmly linked in the public’s mind, […]

(Strategic Forecasting Inc.) Kosovo, Russia and the West
2007 saw the resurgence of a long-dormant issue: independence for Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo. The tiny region is a key pressure point on the fault line between Russia and the West.
The subject of independence for Kosovo is re-emerging as a serious issue. The West seems intent on […]

Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious exploration of issues and the candidates’ positions, their websites supply considerable information. However until the Democrats unite behind one candidate, we decided to follow the issues in one post, except for Foreign Policy and NAFTA. Later, there will be separate posts for each […]

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April 30 marks the hundred-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics - has everyone seen the news that China plans to clear out students and refugees from Beijing before the Games? Nothing being left to […]

For previous news and opinion see Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the aftermath
April 30, 2008
Pakistan’s planned accord with militants alarms U.S.
By ERIC SCHMITT AND MARK MAZZETTI
(IHT) With cross-border attacks into Afghanistan on the rise, Washington faces the fact that its options are now even more limited, in part because of the change of leadership in […]

Foreign Affairs, May-June 2008 issue
The era of U.S. hegemony is coming to an end and other powers are rising. In this issue of Foreign Affairs, Fareed Zakaria contrasts America’s dwindling power with the decline of the British Empire while CFR President Richard Haass examines the consequences of a nonpolar world. The United States can […]

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April 21
North American summit overshadowed by election
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - With the U.S. election looming over their annual summit, North American leaders gathered on Monday for largely symbolic meetings likely to be dominated by questions about free trade.
At the two-day summit, U.S. President George W. Bush and his Canadian and Mexican counterparts […]

…the first principle of Arctic sovereignty is: Use it or lose it
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Resolute Bay, August, 2007

April 19, 2008
Race to map Arctic is about environment as much as oil: MP
MIKE DE SOUZA, Canwest News Service
Mapping the outer limits of Canada’s continental shelves in the Arctic is essential in allowing the country […]

April 11
Gwynne Dyer: Controversial flame has never burned brightly
(New Zealand Herald) What’s actually colliding here are two irreconcilable views of the world. For almost all Chinese, the turmoil in Tibet is a threat to national unity.
We were struck by the contrast of the two opinion pieces excerpted below (there will assuredly be many more) and, […]