Blog Profile / The World Desk
| URL : | http://www2.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/world-blog/the-world-desk/ | |
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| Filed Under: | News / International Affairs | |
| Posts on Regator: | 190 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.3 | |
| Archived Since: | July 25, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
DFAIT’s Iranian outreach
The Global Dialogue on the Future of Iran, an effort by the University of...
DFAIT skirts Iranian government, tries to reach Iranian people
Canada severed diplomatic relations with Iran last September, cutting off contact between the Iranian...
Homage to Latakia
I’m guilty, perhaps, of seeing too much of today’s conflicts through the lens of...
Transparency at DFAIT and the Privy Council Office
This morning I sent Suzanne Legault, Canada’s information commissioner, the following letter. Updates will...
Iranian interior minister barred from EU, comes anyway
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar is in Vienna this week to attend a session...
Hugo Chavez: The sad irony of his years in power
That Venezuela is split at the moment of his death is the result of his own polarizing politics
Accessing information at DFAIT
Canada’s Access to Information Act stipulates that a government institution should disclose information 30...
Tzipi Livni and the return of a two-state solution
Barely a month ago, the arc of Israeli politics seemed pretty clear, if not...
John Baird looks at Mali and sees Afghanistan
The House of Commons foreign affairs committee met today to discuss Mali, where France...
MPs debate Mali; Bob Rae shows talons
Missed the debate on Mali? So did most MPs
What the Israeli election means for the peace process
Election results in a real democracy are unknowable in advance, and the Israeli electorate...
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys go to war
Is there are a French television show equivalent of The Simpsons? If so, its...
Criticism of Chuck Hagel on Israel is empty and misguided
Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of defence, is a former Republican...
Refuge for Cindor Reeves
Cindor Reeves, once the brother-in-law of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, and the man...
The dangers of atheism in the new Egypt
Egyptian atheist Alber Saber is today out of jail, free on bail pending the...
Hitting Russia’s “crooks and abusers” where it hurts — in Canada
“It is only our task to bring democratic change to Russia,” says Russian opposition...
The shifting alliances of Egypt’s revolution
Revolutions make for unlikely allies, and Egypt’s is no exception. I first met Mahmoud...
Mohamed Morsi and Egypt’s struggle for democracy
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than six months since Mohamed Morsi became Egypt’s...
Egypt’s struggle for democracy continues
The storm now rolling through Egypt was brewing when I visited last month. Secular...
Why Canada should support the Palestinian membership bid at the United Nations
In the West Bank several years ago, I asked a Palestinian activist how he...