Archive for category Foreign Policy
Stephen Harper missing women’s health summit
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Women's Rights on June 7, 2010
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Toronto Star, June 6, 2010
WASHINGTON—The cavernous halls of the Washington Convention Center are awash in colourful djellabas, shalwar kameez, saris and African print cottons as the world’s biggest maternal health conference opens Monday with a speech by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
But missing in action is Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who, as host of the G20 conference in Toronto later this month, has made saving the lives of the half-million women who die each year din pregnancy and childbirth his core theme. Read on »
The G20: A billion dollars worth of what?
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, The Deficit on May 27, 2010
The National Post Editorial Board, May 27, 2010
Admittedly, the security bill is staggering for the G8 and G20 summits to be held back-to-back in Ontario next month. Nearly $1-billion is an eye-popping sum. That’s almost as much as the cost of security for the entire Winter Olympics in Vancouver last February, and the Olympics lasted two weeks. The two summits in Huntsville and Toronto will be over and done with in just three days. Read on »
Our local Liberal candidate on maternal health
Posted by sitemaster in Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Liberals, Women's Rights on May 19, 2010
For the Harper Conservatives, it seems possible to talk about maternal health care without mentioning the word abortion. Read on »
Planned Parenthood gets silent treatment from Ottawa
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 14, 2010
By Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Toronto Star, May 13, 2010
One of the world’s biggest health-care providers for vulnerable women appears to have fallen victim to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s zero tolerance policy on abortion.
In London, International Planned Parenthood Federation is waiting for a call from Canada that will preserve life-saving programs that help 31 million women and children. Read on »
Ban criticizes Canada on climate. UN chief urges Harper to comply with Kyoto Protocol targets.
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Environment, Foreign Policy on May 13, 2010
By JULIET O’NEILL, Canwest News Service, as published in The Montreal Gazette, May 13, 2010
The United Nations chief chided the Canadian government for its climate change policy yesterday, urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to contribute new funds to help developing countries improve their environments. Read on »
Lancet medical journal slams Canada, Stephen Harper on abortion
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 7, 2010
By Mary Vallis, The National Post, May 7, 2010
One of the world’s leading medical journals is slamming Stephen Harper’s Conservative government’s “conscious decision” not to support groups that undertake abortions in developing countries. Read on »
Tory senator drops F-bomb on abortion debate
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on May 4, 2010
By Tobi Cohen, Canwest News Service, as published in The Ottawa Citizen, May 4, 2010
OTTAWA — The Liberals are seeking an apology from the government after a Conservative senator told international development advocates Monday to “shut the f— up” on the issue of making abortion part of Canada’s foreign maternal-health strategy. Read on »
Contraception motion defeated
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health & Safety, Human Rights, Liberals, Women's Rights on March 23, 2010
CBC News, March 23, 2010
A Liberal motion to include a broader range of family planning programs, including contraception, in a maternal health initiative for developing countries, was defeated 144-138 in the House of Commons Tuesday.
The motion tabled by Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae said Canada’s maternal health proposal to G8 nations must be based on “scientific evidence, which proves that education and family planning can prevent as many as one in every three maternal deaths” and refrain from the “failed right-wing ideologies” of former U.S. president George W. Bush. Read on »
Harper government backs away from birth control
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Humanitarian Aid, Women's Rights on March 17, 2010
Susan Delacourt, Ottawa Bureau, The Toronto Star, March 17, 2010
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government appears to have decided that birth control is not part of its plan to help improve the lives of women and children in developing countries. Read on »
Harper ‘recycling’ money in Haiti
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Foreign Policy, Humanitarian Aid on February 23, 2010
By STEPHEN MAHER, Ottawa Bureau of the Chronicle-Herald, Feb 23
OTTAWA — Politicians and NGOs have begun to wrangle over the nature of Canada’s aid commitment to Haiti, with the Liberals complaining that the government is recycling money, and one aid group worrying that shifting money to Haiti could shortchange other areas of the world. Read on »
Stephen Harper’s troubling foreign policy
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy on February 22, 2010
SHAWN KATZ, The Sheaf, from The Concordian, February 22, 2010
MONTREAL (CUP) – Since coming to office, the Stephen Harper Conservatives have sought to break with Canada’s consensus stance on the Middle East, developed since the birth of Israel 60 years ago and held to by governments of both conservative and liberal stripes over the years. Where once we were a candid (and when appropriate, critical) friend of Israel, we have now become their stooge — and it is Canada’s international credibility that has suffered greatly as a result. Read on »
And this is our foreign policy …
Posted by sitemaster in Canadian Armed Forces, Conservatives, Foreign Policy on February 19, 2010
By Rick Salutin, The Globe and Mail, February 18, 2010
There’s something enigmatic in Stephen Harper’s foreign policy. Since he decided to cut and run from Afghanistan, it seems to have only one pillar: total support for whatever Israel’s government does. Read on »
MPs pile on `train wreck’ agency
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights on February 18, 2010
By Bruce Campion-Smith, Ottawa Bureau chief, The Toronto Star, February 18, 2010
OTTAWA–Opposition MPs are calling on Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon to rein in the Rights and Democracy agency that they say has gone “rogue” and is “out of control.”
They’re vowing to hold a parliamentary probe of the government-funded agency’s woes when the House of Commons resumes sitting in less than two weeks. Read on »
Rights agency needs new head
Posted by sitemaster in Accountability, Conservatives, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights on February 17, 2010
From the Toronto Star, February 16, 2010
After trying for weeks to distance himself from the mess at Rights and Democracy, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is finally taking responsibility for it. Read on »
Ignatieff outlines Liberal priorities in open letter to Harper
Posted by sitemaster in Aboriginals, Accountability, Canadian Armed Forces, Crime & Safety, Democracy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Pensions, The Economy on February 17, 2010
Please click here to read Michael Ignatieff’s open letter to Stephen Harper, dated February 15, 2010.
Where have all the policy-makers gone?
Posted by sitemaster in Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Science & Technology, The Economy on February 17, 2010
David Mitchell, The Globe and Mail, Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
Think hard: What were the policy and governance highlights of the past decade? It’s a short list. Our federal government avoided the military intervention in Iraq, joined the war effort in Afghanistan and, largely in reaction to the sponsorship scandal in Quebec, was preoccupied by the internal processes of accountability.
In fact, pro-active policy-making within government has atrophied. Read on »
Conservatives follow recipe for foreign-policy decay
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Culture, Democracy, Foreign Policy on February 16, 2010
Muzzling NGOs and meddling in arms-length organizations like Rights and Democracy will only diminish Canada’s role on the world stage
David Eaves, Special to The Globe and Mail, Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
Over the past few months a new pattern in Ottawa’s relations with internationally focused NGOs has begun to emerge. Through bullying, funding decisions, appointments and other means, the government is attempting to compel Canadian organizations that engage in international issues to parrot its opinions. Read on »
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