On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
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May 9, 2011
SOCIAL WELFARE STATES CAN’T SEE THE POOR, TO PROTECT THEM This past half century has seen remarkable economic growth in the global economy. Rich countries have become richer, and once poor countries – from superstars like India and China, to...
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April 25, 2011
BUT THE WALL DOESN’T SIT ON MUCH OF A FOUNDATION So the BRICs have become the BRICS. The annual leaders meeting – this is actually the third annual meeting of BRIC leaders – that originally included Brazil, Russia, India and...
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April 18, 2011
WHERE CAN WE SET STANDARDS, AFTER FUKUSHIMA? After the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, the debate over how the incident will affect global plans for reactor construction is continuing. Germany has shifted sharply (though they had been...
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April 11, 2011
WILL JAPAN’S COMMUNITARIAN SPIRIT PERSIST IN RECONSTRUCTION? For we Japanese, living with earthquakes has been like a national game of ‘cat and mouse’ with the most powerful forces of nature. We try our best to run away from nature’s claws,...
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April 4, 2011
WHERE WILL PRETORIA GO AS A BRIC-FORUM MEMBER? In its early years of transition from apartheid and in South Africa’s integration into the global system, South Africa was always known as a country that punches above its weight in global...
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March 28, 2011
BY NOT ADAPTING TO A NEW ENVIRONMENT, BRAZIL IS CEDING ITS FUTURE TO CHINA Leo Tolstoy’s description of Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia, in his masterpiece “War and Peace”, evokes the dynamics in the currency war taking place in global...
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March 21, 2011
EVEN A STALEMATE IS GREEN LIGHT FOR YEMENI, BAHRAINI REGIMES Libya is the new barometer of the changing Middle East. The early, relatively fast, regime changes in Tunisia and Egypt raised expectations throughout the region. After thirty years of sclerosis,...
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March 14, 2011
HOW IT WORKS, AND HOW IT’S INFLUENCED On Saturday March 5th, 2011, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) convened for its annual session. The Congress consists of some 3,000 delegates elected by China’s provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and the armed forces....
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March 7, 2011
NOW THAT LIBYA’S OFF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL On February 28th, 2011, the UN Human Rights Council reconvened. Eight years ago that Spring, I witnessed Najat Al-Hajjaji preside for the first time as the Libyan elected Chair at the...
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February 28, 2011
FINANCE MINISTERS AND CENTRAL BANKERS AGREE ON CUTTING DEBT, BUT NOT MUCH ELSE The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, held in Paris on February 18-19, 2011, was a small success for this new model of global...
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