As Doomsday Clock ticks down, is Trudeau listening?

That it’s necessary to appeal to the government just to participate in a conference shows how far Canada has retreated from its nuclear disarmament activism.

Demonstrators call on the Trudeau government to pursue nuclear disarmament negotiations at the UN, at a protest organized by The Ottawa Committee for Nuclear Disarmament on Dec. 5, 2016The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

February 1, 2017

EDMONTON, ALTA.—Shortly after the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists started a Doomsday Clock to show a countdown to a possible global nuclear catastrophe. Last week, the clock was set at two and a half minutes to midnight, the closest the clock has be...

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