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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February 21, 2011
BUDGET 2011: OBAMA’S BIG REALITY CHECK First came the poetry of the January 25th State of the Union address: It was time for Americans to remember that they were “the light of the world,” Obama said – time to “out-innovate, out-educate,...
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February 14, 2011
WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW ENTER THE NEXT PHASE OF NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS When US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov concluded the two-year phase of the New START Treaty (Treaty) negotiations with an exchange of diplomatic documents...
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February 7, 2011
TAHRIR SQUARE ENDS A GOVERNMENT AND LAUNCHES AN ERA The euphoria of the demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Cairo is blowing through the Middle East. In less than two weeks, Egyptians humbled their president, broken the back of the security...
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January 31, 2011
FORGET THE SESSIONS...CHECK OUT THE COFFEE LINE-UP This week thousands will make the arduous journey to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in a small southeastern Swiss village called Davos — a place otherwise known for its skiing,...
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January 17, 2011
A MEETING OF FRIENDS AND FOES (OR AT LEAST RIVALS) Well it is definitely not a G2. While the global financial crisis was raging and there was strong crisis management among the leading global powers, it appeared to many that...
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January 10, 2011
SUNDAY’S REFERENDUM IS A MILESTONE FOR MULTILATERALISM Sudan has been in crisis since it gained independence in 1956. There has been a horrible history of marginalization: acute economic, social and political discrimination based on ethnicity, religion and region. Southern Sudan...
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January 3, 2011
THE LAST PRESIDENT WAS A GIANT, AND LEFT GIANT QUESTIONS FOR THE NEW ONE Brazil began 2011 with a new president and all eyes in Brazil, along with growing number around the world, were watching to see how Dilma Rousseff...
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December 20, 2010
IS IT TIME TO START OVER WITH NORTH KOREA? North Korea (DPRK) continues to threaten its neighbors and international society with a series of military and nuclear provocations, including its second nuclear test (May 2009), its sinking of the South...
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December 13, 2010
...THOUGH THE EXPECTATIONS WERE SO LOW Expectations could not have been lower for the annual round of UN-sponsored negotiations on climate change in Cancún, Mexico. In Canada, media tried to create artificial drama by suggesting they would determine whether the...
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MUNK’S NEW RESEARCH METHODS EXPOSE THE STRUGGLE FOR THE INTERNET Right now, the reader of this article is likely viewing it through an Internet connection, perhaps over their mobile phone or iPad, via the medium of cyberspace. Ten years ago,...
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