Canada nominates first Indigenous Supreme Court docket choose | Information | DW

Canada nominates first Indigenous Supreme Court docket choose | Information | DW

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday nominated Michelle O’Bonsawin as the primary Indigenous particular person to serve on the nation’s Supreme Court docket. Her choice is a historic second for a rustic searching for to make amends for abuses towards native peoples. Trudeau mentioned O’Bonsawin was a “extensively revered member of Canada’s authorized neighborhood with a distinguished profession.” “Her nomination…

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How the war in Ukraine showed that Canada is ill-equipped to fight a modern army

How the war in Ukraine showed that Canada is ill-equipped to fight a modern army

Ukraine’s assert that its forces have destroyed more than 300 Russian tanks and extra than 1,000 armoured staff carriers must be taken — like all wartime estimates — with a grain of salt. But Ukrainian forces have amazed the Kremlin and the world with the ferocity of their resistance. One particular important element in that achievement has been the FGM-148 Javelin…

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The war in Ukraine could force Canada to shed its self-image as a peacekeeper

The war in Ukraine could force Canada to shed its self-image as a peacekeeper

Over the previous three a long time or much more, Canada has endured from a deep identification crisis whenever it has been confronted with the messy, brutal foreign wars raging in much-flung elements of this troubled world. The overpowering brutality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced the Liberal authorities in current weeks to confront some thorny issues….

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