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Canada’s Defence Spending Is Now Less than Half of NATO’s Target
- 24 septembre 2015
Last year I blogged about the decline in Canadian military spending as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The most recent figures at that time were for 2013. I noted that defence spending had fallen to 1.00 percent of …
EN SAVOIR PLUSWhose views? Climate Change Governance and the Politics of Expertise
- 22 septembre 2015
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long been regarded as the most authoritative guide to the status of knowledge about climate change. Read any report by a government, international organization, business group or NGO and they almost …
EN SAVOIR PLUSOn the Fence: Canada’s Role in the Western Pacific Through An Election Lens
- 17 septembre 2015
Canada’s election, in the 70th anniversary year of the conclusion of World War II, should be a time to ponder Canada’s role in the Western Pacific. Most pressing is the challenge of how Canada should respond to China’s increasingly …
EN SAVOIR PLUSEU Countries Must Work Toward Common Refugee Solution
- 15 septembre 2015
The German minister of the interior announced on the weekend that Germany would temporarily close its southern border. In so doing, the government would temporarily leave the so-called Schengen agreement, which allows the free movement of people in the Euro …
EN SAVOIR PLUSMissing Indictments in the Case of Maher Arar
- 10 septembre 2015
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have laid a criminal charge against George Salloum, director of the Far Falestin prison in Damascus, Syria, where Maher Arar was tortured in 2002-03. At the same time, the Mounties issued an …
EN SAVOIR PLUSWe Are All Responsible for the Safe Passage of Syrian Refugees
- 8 septembre 2015
Philosophers are fond of asking this question, to press peoples’ intuitions about the right thing to do: Imagine you are walking by a pond, in your fanciest suit on your way to an important meeting, and you notice a baby …
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Low-Fee Private Schools and Development: What Do We Really Know?
- 8 septembre 2015
by Prachi Srivastava
I have been researching low-fee private schooling for nearly a decade and a half. No one could be happier that the issue is finally receiving the high-level attention it deserves, with discussions in development circles and an …
EN SAVOIR PLUSPause Before You Laugh at Governor Walker
- 2 septembre 2015
Photo by Megan McCormickElection campaigns are comedy fodder. This week’s top supplier is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the man running for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States. When queried on Sunday by Chuck Todd of NBC News’ …
EN SAVOIR PLUSTerror No-Go Zones an Election-Friendly Scrap
- 16 août 2015
By Wesley Wark
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, August 14, 2015
The campaign trail declaration by the Stephen Harper Conservatives to set up a regime of designated no-go terrorist activity zones is a left-over from the omnibus anti-terrorism legislation …
EN SAVOIR PLUSUnlike Canadian Expats Living Abroad, Non-Citizen Residents Are Directly Impacted by our Laws, Yet Have No Say in Them
- 13 août 2015
By Patti Tamara Lenard
Published in the National Post, July 31, 2015
Donald Sutherland is upset. He wants to vote in Canadian elections because he feels Canadian, because he has to restrain himself from saying “eh?” and because he’s …
EN SAVOIR PLUSWhat Does Mullah Omar’s Death Mean for Afghan Peace Talks?
- 12 août 2015
By Nipa Banerjee
While the Taliban insurgency rages in Afghanistan, the acknowledgement of Mullah Omar’s death has sparked debates on the impact of this event on the future of the peace talks and the Taliban war.
The enigmatic Taliban leader …
EN SAVOIR PLUS(Almost) A Good Idea: Banning Travel to Designated Conflict Zones
- 11 août 2015
By Craig Forcese
Excerpted from the original version published on the National Security Law blog, August 10, 2015
On the election trail yesterday, Stephen Harper proposed a criminal law ban on travel to designated zones he described as « ground …
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