Why the UN fails where it matters most
Scott Gilmore on mass rape, Canada, and the desperate need for UN reform
United Nations
Can Liberals deliver on peacekeeping and climate change?
Follow along with speedy punditry on Ban Ki-moon’s comments in Ottawa—and Trudeau’s big challenge on climate goals
Waiting for Canada’s call: Camp 074 in Lebanon
In a refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, Michael Friscolanti speaks to families holding out for safe haven
How UNHCR’s refugee-resettlement process actually works
Maclean’s explains the five-step resettlement process that refugees typically go through to get to Canada
Colin Mochrie on living below the poverty line for a week
Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie describes what it was like taking the 2015 Live Below The Line challenge, living on $1.75 per day
New development goals with ambition—and a bit of sass
Sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations on Friday eclipse previous development goals in scope and double them in number
European refugee crisis? Nope.
’We didn’t start calling it a “crisis” until people began arriving in Europe,’ Scott Gilmore writes
A plan to save the world in 2015
The United Nations set eight ambitious goals for 2015 to dramatically improve global health and welfare. How close will it come to hitting its targets?
Just how seriously is Canada’s voice taken now?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a much weaker record on foreign policy than he would have Canadians believe
Has Harper hurt Canada’s position in the world?
A survey of international changes under Harper, from trade to diplomatic data, suggests the answer is ’no’