Natalie Brender

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Natalie Brender
Publications Coordinator and Research Associate, CIPS

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Canada to Immigrants: Get Ready for your Unwanted Close-up!0
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- 26 mars 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, March 26, 2013

Lots of good news these days if you’re hoping to break into show biz: British music mogul Simon Cowell is now accepting YouTube auditions for his global talent search. And the …
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Whose Freedom Counts in Canada’s Middle East Policy?0
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- 18 mars 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, March 18, 2013

The profusion of official statements the Harper government issues to recognize Canadians’ diverse ethnic and religious holidays suggests a deep-seated love of all that is festive and momentous. But for the …
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Canada Must Do Much More to Promote Ethical Mining 0
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- 11 mars 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, March 11, 2013

Recent months have seen heated debate about CIDA’s venture into funding partnerships between Canadian mining companies and international development NGOs. Earlier in March, CIDA Minister Julian Fantino told a gathering of …
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Conservatives’ Empty Symbolism on Citizenship Honours No One 0
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- 25 février 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, February 25, 2013

Earlier this month, the House of Commons finished the second reading of a private member’s bill (“An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act, Honouring the Canadian Armed Forces”) that would revoke
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A Headhunter’s Nightmare at Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom 0
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- 18 février 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, February 18, 2013

Despite the recent papal drama in Rome, the Catholic Church isn’t the only religion-focused body with prominent personnel troubles. In Ottawa, the Harper government has spent the last year dealing with …
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Diasporas in Foreign Policymaking: Just Another Ploy of Neoliberal Multiculturalism?0
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- 5 février 2013
Recent weeks have seen a brief revival of discussion in print and elsewhere on the question of whether Canadian multiculturalism is passé. This latest round of debate has shed little new light on the topic, having consisted chiefly of anecdotes …
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Politique étrangère canadienne à la dérive? Moments marquants de l’automne sur le Blogue du CÉPI 0
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- 20 décembre 2012
Plusieurs des thématiques abordées dans le Blogue du CÉPI ce semestre concernaient la politique étrangère du gouvernement Harper au Moyen-Orient et à l’ONU, et sa vision plus générale de la place du Canada dans le concert des nations.

La session …
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Keeping the Hard Questions: Hard Reflections on Policy Critique 0
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- 30 novembre 2012
Punditry, like bread, is best consumed fresh—but occasionally, some quickly-skimmed pundit’s lines will lodge in the brain and take on profound depth as they age over the next days or weeks.

That’s what happened when I read a recent article…
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Only Two Cheers for Religious Freedom 0
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- 15 octobre 2012
L’article complet a été publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, le 15 octobre 2012

Discussing democracy in his 1938 essay « What I Believe » E. M. Forster provocatively writes that « (t)wo cheers are quite enough: there is no …
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Event Report: Discussion on the Will to Intervene 0
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- 1 octobre 2012
On September 24, CIPS (in conjunction with the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies at Concordia University) presented a panel discussion in honour of the Will to Intervene Day, which was proclaimed in the City of Ottawa by Mayor Jim Watson. …
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Kenney’s Reforms Make More Sense Than His Rhetoric 0
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- 14 juillet 2012
Publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 11 juli 2012.

If you were throwing an open house party, would you trash-talk the guests to your neighbours? Probably not. It’s strange, then, that even as the Harper government aims to sustain Canada’s …
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A Role to Reclaim: Canada as Honest Broker 0
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- 8 mai 2012
Speaking on Middle East issues at an Ottawa synagogue in April, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae noted that the current impasse in peace talks between Israel and Palestinians offers an opening for constructive Canadian engagement. On his recent trips to …
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