This Week's Round-Up: March 11, 2026

• Has the US war on Canada already begun?

• Iranians have seen this play out before 

• Loneliness and housing in Canada

• Canada's opioid crisis

• We’re hiring an art fellow

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran

The questions that aren’t making it into the battlefield dispatches

BY VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS

“An openly declared intent to overthrow a regime, however brutal, provides no justification under law. The damage such actions inflict on the stability of international relations is profound. The rapidly deteriorating security and humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is the latest—and unlikely the last—assault on the core principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention, and the prohibition on the use or threat of force that anchor the modern legal order.

But the problem, of course, is not in the legal framework but in those few who see raw might as the path to peace, ignoring every lesson of history which shows that might is nothing but a recipe for a cycle of violence, disorder, and destruction.”

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