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Trudeau's pro-Israel stance offside with Canadians -- and hampers bid for UN seat

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Aiming to outshine the U.S. on the world stage isn't exactly setting the bar high these days. Outshining Norway and Ireland, however, might present a challenge.

And these two small countries are the main competitors if Justin Trudeau is to realize his dream of nabbing a seat for Canada on the United Nations Security Council.

For all the focus on surviving his meeting with Donald Trump this week, the real prize for Trudeau lies at the UN as he seeks to position himself, particularly in Canadian eyes, as a peacekeeping-loving, refugee-embracing, women-buttressing internationalist, leading a Canada that is "back" engaging with the world.

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Ian Smillie on sustainability and development

August 30, 2013
| Ian speaks to development issues of all kinds, sustainability, how to lie with statistics and the future of development.
Length: 57:36 minutes (46.15 MB)
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French military presence in Mali to continue

May 14, 2013
| Earlier this year France began a military involvement in the West African nation of Mali. Last month the French parliament voted to extend their involvement.
Length: 15:53 minutes (14.54 MB)
International intervention heats up in Mali
By
Roger Annis
| May 7, 2013

France's National Assembly and Senate have voted to extend the country's military intervention in Mali. A resolution passed both houses of parliament on April 22. Not a single vote was cast in opposition.

Three days later, the United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 2100, creating a policing mission beginning July 1, 2013. The mission is called by its French acronym MINUSMA. Its projected size is 11,200 soldiers and 1,440 police.

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Before championing human rights abroad, Canada needs to look closer to home

John Baird speaks at the UN. Photo: United Nations

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On December 10th, the world celebrated Human Rights Day. Of course, I didn't expect this celebration to be a joyful or a rosy one. Canada, with the trembling voice of its Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, added its fading voice to the international scene.

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The promise and failures of international law

April 19, 2012
| One important impetus for the creation of international law was the two world wars of the 20th century. The United Nations was born with the intention of preventing war and promoting peace.
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Why should Canada care about Rwanda?
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Gerry Caplan
| April 16, 2012

Most Canadians now know the answer to the question general Romeo Dallaire once asked thanks, unhappily, to one of history's great man-made tragedies. Yet for half a century before the 1994 genocide, some Canadians, especially Quebec Catholic missionaries and certain federal civil servants, were close to Rwanda, a country where the elite spoke French. It might have been better were they not, for many of these old Rwanda hands made themselves handmaidens of an ethnic Hutu dictatorship that ended up planning and executing the near-extermination of the country's Tutsi minority.

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Libya violence and Canadian political silence

Libya by Nidal Elkhairy, a Palestinian artist living in Amman, Jordan.

Editor's note: This article was written before Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, the youngest son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was reported killed in a Nato air strike on April 30, 2011. Three of the elder Gaddifi's grandchildren were also reported killed by the strike on the family compound in Tripoli. 

As Canada enters the final days in 2011 election campaigning, politicians streaking across the country have offered little more than resounding silence on Canada's military role in Libya.

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Don't be surprised at the UN's failings in Egypt -- just take a look at Haiti

CBC's The Sunday Edition host, Michael Enright, gave an opening essay on the Feb. 13 program that lamented the failure of the United Nations to provide meaningful support to the people of Egypt in their courageous battle to end the tyranny under which they have lived for 30 years.

In the essay titled, "The United Nations of Nowhere," he said Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon offered nothing more than platitudes, token phrases to the people of Egypt.

Enright then went on to note, "When we say the words ‘United Nations,' we automatically think of four things -- the Security Council, the Secretary General, the General Assembly and peacekeeping.

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Why Canada lost UN security council bid. Why is the U.S. swinging to the right? Pitfalls of Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement

October 28, 2010
| Alert! Radio #162 - Interviews with Haroon Siddiqui, Stephen Shrybman, Saul Landau. Headlines, Around the Left in 7 Days and Music is the Weapon.
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