Bob Rae's acceptance speech on being elected president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council ..read more

President Joe Biden addresses the nation on his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign ..read more

Andre Furtado/Pexels By Andrew Parkes July 25, 2024 I’m a proud third-generation Canadian; my grandparents on both sides settled in ..read more

President Joe Biden/AP By Lisa Van Dusen July 21, 2024 The momentousness of Joe Biden’s decision Sunday to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election was not lost on anyone. For once in our recent, relentless spree of norm-breaking related to what is still the world’s most powerful office, an unprecedented act was generated by America’s pro-democracy president rather than his unpredictable, anti-democracy predecessor and now-erstwhile rival. But, with all respect to headline writers toiling against character limit-squeeze on a historic breaking story, Biden’s announcement just before 2 p.m ..read more

  By Martine St-Victor July 18, 2024 On July 16, Major League Baseball (MLB) hosted its 94th All-Star Game. Despite record-low TV ratings in the past two years, the “midsummer classic” remains an important tradition for sports purists and occasional fans alike. As I type this essay in my home office, a commemorative baseball from the 1979 All-Star Game sits encased on my desk. I don’t really follow the sport, though I fancy the business of it. I have no clue what Los Angeles Dodger and superstar Shohei Ohtani’s batting average is, but I can enthusiastically detail his lucrative contract a ..read more

By Reem Zaia and Darren Johnston July 18, 2024 In 2012, Canada enacted the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (JVTA) to deter terrorism by opening an avenue of legal liability for victims against state sponsors of terrorist acts. Nearly 12 years later, the Act has proven far less effective than it could or should be. The JVTA allows victims of terrorism who have suffered loss or damage in or outside of Canada after January 1, 1985 to sue certain foreign states. The precondition for commencing a lawsuit in pursuit of monetary damages is that the loss must be the result of an act or omission o ..read more

The author in his mother’s Transylvanian home town of Draas By Peter M. Boehm July 15, 2024. Most of us, at some point in our lives, take an avid interest in our roots: who our ancestors were, where they came from, how they lived. As a child of refugees and a first-generation Canadian, I am no exception. My roots are with the Saxons of Transylvania, now part of Romania, who emigrated in the Middle Ages from what today is Luxembourg and the Mosel area of Germany, lured by free settlement land offered by King Gésa of Hungary, formalized in the Diploma Andreanum of 1224. Transylvanian Saxons are ..read more

Welcome to our Policy special issue on the 2024 American presidential election. These days, any treatment of American politics — including and especially this presidential election — comes with thedisclaimer that any previously unthinkable plot twist can make your snapshot of the status quo obsolete in short order. At this writing, we’re focusing on the major issues while prognosticating on the default assumption that incumbent President Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee and that twice-impeached RICO defendant Donald Trump will be fronting the Republican Party. We have a collection of ..read more

Montreal’s Bagg Street Shul, defaced by antisemitic graffiti in March, 2023/JNS By Kevin Lynch and Paul Deegan July 12, 2024 In a recent op ed in The Globe and Mail, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist wrote about “the disbelief among far too many in Canada that rising antisemitism is real, alongside the disbelief by many within the Jewish community that antisemitism has returned in a manner unseen since the Holocaust.” He asked Canadians to “simply believe us”. In a similar vein, former CIBC executive Mark McQueen observed months ago, “Corporate Canada needs to take antisemitism ..read more

The election night crowd at Place de la République/Reuters By Jeremy Kinsman July 7, 2024 Quelle soirée. From panic over the likely takeover of French politics by Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally), France has swung to the democratic left instead. The strategic voting undertaken by the Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front) — formed on the left among the Socialists, Greens, Communists and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise — and President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble centrist party, repelled the threat from the far right. At press time on election night ..read more