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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April 1, 2010
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, many are hoping that the newly expanded G20 and its newly refurbished Financial Stability Board will foster cooperative policies and resilient markets. In this essay, the author wonders if his late friend Jacques Polak would have considered this hope realistic.
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April 1, 2010
The G8 is dead. Long live the G20! Not so fast. Despite rumours to the contrary, there is still very much a place and a responsibility for the G8 in the international governance architecture.
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April 1, 2010
A strange air of nostalgia hangs over any discussion of the global security agenda. Faced with a bewildering array of challenges to security in the 21st century, we look back on the Cold War with a longing for its alleged simplicities.
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September 4, 2008
A striking feature of discussions on conflict management in recent years has been an emerging consensus on the importance of “peacebuilding.”
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May 13, 2008
M O N I T O R H I G H L I G H T S The new global order, page 4; Israel at 60, by Emanuel Adler, page 9; Border crossings: Europe’s lessons for North America, by Randall...
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May 6, 2008
What makes an ordinary trial a “political” trial? It is commonplace to suggest that some trials are political or have been politicized, but we usually make no effort at further definition, except to attach a pejorative connotation to the label.
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February 8, 2008
While there continue to be debates about the implications of NAFTA on Canada’s water resources, in a sense these distract from the real issue of whether Canada is doing all it can to protect our water resources, given the potential constraints of NAFTA and the multilateral obligations of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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