Canada heads for the hills as humanitarian need peaks

Our cut-and-run approach to foreign aid goes beyond slashing funding to the lowest level since 1969, and includes closing missions in key regions, and withdrawing peacekeeping operations, argues former diplomat Nick Coghlan.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Conflicts in Gaza and South Sudan, devastating climate change, and failing diplomacy make for a bleak global. Picture. It’s the greatest humanitarian crisis in modern history, and Canada heads for the hills, writes Nick Coghlan.

Not since the dying months of the Second World War has so much human misery stalked the planet.

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