Canadian Politics
Non-binding motions: the end-run around Parliament
Non-binding parliamentary motions and UN declarations are expressions of values. They carry no force of law. But Canadian bureaucracies have treated them as…
Tag: United Nations
13 posts tagged "United Nations".
Canadian Politics
Stephen Lewis dead at 88
Stephen Lewis has died at 88. Three generations of the Lewis family have shaped the Canadian left. His passing, days after his son Avi won the NDP leadership,…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Awkward tweet from the UN
A one state solution tweet that could have come from Hamas. Amazingly, it came from the United Nations. The @UN later corrected their tweet: On Day of…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Ladies and Gentlemen, your United Nations
One month ago, a wayward bureaucrat (or rapporteur as he is styled) found himself in Canada and decided to tear a strip off our country on the topic of food…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Syria now on UN human rights committee
Maariv via The Weekly Standard, A short time after UNESCO, the UN’s organization for education and science, accepted the Palestinian Authority as a full member…
CBC
George Galloway on the assassination of Rafik Hariri
“Everybody should be aware that the verdict of the Mehlis inquiry was already fixed before he began his investigation. This murder of Hariri was deliberately…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
It gets better despite the United Nations
The Toronto Star’s Haroon Siddiqui describes how Canada suffered a “humiliating failure” at the United Nations for failing to get that coveted seat on the…
Canadian Media
Liberal Meme Watch
Liberal Meme: Stephen Harper is not the internationalist that Michael Ignatieff is, the latter more worldly, well-traveled and well-lettered. Stephen Harper…
Michael Ignatieff
Ignatieff out of step with the UN on abortion
So there I was watching the National on CBC. It’s been quite a few days of discussion, at least in Conservative circles, about the partisan affiliation (or…