Natalie Brender

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Natalie Brender
Publications Coordinator and Research Associate, CIPS

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Will a New Minister Fix Canada’s Ideas-free Immigration Policy?0
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- 23 octobre 2013
The disloyalty is shocking. Waves of migrants arrive at a country’s shores seeking economic opportunity, a higher quality of life for themselves and their children, or refuge from political uncertainty — only to return to their home countries or move …
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Holy Fools of Diplomacy in the Harper Era 0
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- 8 octobre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, October 7, 2013

In detective novels, the most swaggering posture is a hard-boiled one, wise to the ways of the world and expecting venality at every turn. The same holds true in diplomacy, commonly …
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When Prodigal Jihadis Come Home 0
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- 1 octobre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, September 30, 2013

It’s getting to be a familiar theme that Canadians’ global origins and global mobility can intersect frighteningly with currents in Islamist terrorism. Two Canadians were killed in this month’s Al Shabab …
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Event report: Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Next Chapter 0
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- 19 septembre 2013
On September 12, journalist and author Ahmed Rashid spoke at CIPS on Pakistan’s current challenges and its prospects for coming years. The present situation, he declared at the outset, is grim. Three separate insurgencies are causing mayhem; the economy is …
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Syria and Obama’s Flawed Logic of Message-Sending 0
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- 4 septembre 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, September 4, 2013

In announcing his plan last Saturday to put the prospect of Syrian intervention to a Congressional vote, President Obama posed a ringing question to his domestic and global audience: “What message …
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Real Women Attack on Baird a Lesson for Multicultural Canada 0
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- 9 août 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, August 8, 2013

Just for a change of pace, here’s a news story you did not read about this week:

“A collective statement by traditionalist Sikh, Muslim and Jewish groups attacking Foreign Affairs Minister …
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Canada’s Brave New World of Digital Diplomacy 0
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- 18 juin 2013
Is it diplomacy, propaganda or subversion? There’s a question of naming going on these days in Canadian diplomacy, amid our government’s high-profile feud with Iran. It starts from a seemingly minor venture that opens up into something quite major: the …
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Does Canadian Diplomacy Need an Office of Religious Engagement?0
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- 12 juin 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 10, 2013

Depending on your view of Canada’s recently opened Office of Religious Freedom, you may or may not welcome the likelihood that a related idea from the U.S. State Department will be …
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Migrants’ Global Ties Challenge Canada to Make Big-Picture Policy 0
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- 7 juin 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, June 6, 2013

The American writer Maya Angelou was referring to deep matters of the heart when she said, “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, …
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Duffy, China, Syria: Weighing the Scales of Scandal 0
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- 21 mai 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, May 21, 2013

Mike Duffy, China, Syria: one of these things is not like the others. For starters, only the first (along with the inimitable mayor of Toronto) has riveted the attention of most …
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Harper Government ‘Pandering to Diasporas’? Not So Fast, Pundits 0
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- 8 mai 2013
It’s looking likely that Prime Minister Harper will boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Sri Lanka this November, due to that country’s deteriorating human rights and governance record. If so, Canada may be alone among …
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Does the World Exist (in Canada’s Foreign Policy)?0
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- 23 avril 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, April 22, 2013

Rarely do questions of metaphysics, epistemology and foreign policy intersect. The past seven years of foreign policy under Prime Minister Harper and his various foreign ministers, however, suggest that the government …
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