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- Susanne Courtney
- • March 28, 2022
TORONTO — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seriously rattled Europe and the rest of the world and upset the normally sedate discourse of diplomats at the United Nations as well. The public remarks of Canada’s UN ambassador about the…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 28, 2021
There was brassy military music and the thud of a 21-gun salute. But there were also the drumbeats and songs of the polar north as Mary May Simon was sworn in on July 26 as Canada’s 30th governor-general, the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 17, 2020
An almost empty General Assembly Hall, masks of all types and colors and diplomats rejoicing to see their colleagues that they probably have seen only on their computer screens for months marked this year’s General Assembly elections at the…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 4, 2020
CHICOUTIMI, Canada — The Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, Marc-André Blanchard, told a Canadian newspaper in March “now is not the time to campaign for a Security Council seat,” as world diplomacy is being disrupted by the coronavirus…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Security Council
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 25, 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a point of bringing Canada back to the international stage at the United Nations to win a coveted nonpermanent seat on the Security Council for the 2021-22 term. But amid Trudeau’s re-election campaign…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 14, 2019
Donald Trump will shake hands with Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But will Benjamin Netanyahu; Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel be there, too? The 74th opening debate of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts on…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 23, 2018
MONTREAL —Â When he took office in 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised, among other things, to bring Canada back as a leader on the world’s stage. “Canada is back,” he said after signing the Paris accord on climate…
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics
- Julie Vanderperre
- • November 13, 2017
The one sure announcement to emerge from the annual United Nations peacekeeping defense ministerial conference this week will be the adoption of the Vancouver Principles, a set of rules aimed primarily at preventing the recruitment and use of child…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 2, 2017
The lazy days of late summer are not that idle in Turtle Bay, as the United Nations prepares for this month’s opening debate of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York. Before the swarm of world leaders descends…
- Categories: UN Diplomats
- Julie Vanderperre
- • April 20, 2017
Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged in a splashy way right after his 2015 election to “renew Canada’s commitment to United Nations peace operations,” the country’s contribution to peacekeeping remains at an all-time low. Since Trudeau’s seemingly impetuous campaign…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2017
When António Guterres was chosen by the United Nations Security Council in October to become the next leader of the UN, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted precisely who would be commanding the Oval Office of the…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 22, 2016
The United Nations threw a large and lavish party at its headquarters in New York on Earth Day, the opening day of the signing ceremony for the world’s new climate agreement. About 170 heads of state and government representatives…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 17, 2016
“Because it’s 2015,” Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada and self-proclaimed feminist, said simply, using the vernacular of his generation to reinforce his position on gender equality as he spoke at the United Nations recently during an “armchair…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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