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Budget 2019: Peanuts for International Development
- Analysis
- March 22, 2019
From the international development perspective, Budget 2019 is the most disappointing federal budget since the current Liberal government was elected. Foreign aid warrants a mere three paragraphs. The first repeats past commitments and the third describes how the government will report on Canadian aid, as legislated by the most recent omnibus bill. Hardly juicy stuff.
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Aviation Industry Flying Under the Climate Radar, Part 1
- Analysis
- March 14, 2019
Monday, 13 July 2018 was a day for the record books. On that day the Swedish company FlightRadar24 tracked 205,468 flights occurring around the world, making it aviation’s busiest day in history. It would be a herculean task to determine the total carbon footprint of all those flights put together, but a basic back-of-envelope calculation
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Aviation Industry Flying Under the Climate Radar, Part 2
- Analysis
- March 14, 2019
In part 1 of this blog, we looked at how the aviation sector contributes to climate change overall. In this second part, we look at the three main ways the aviation industry is flying under the radar when it comes to climate change. First, the sector benefits from the publicity received by technological innovations and
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Haiti: Beyond the Headlines
- Analysis
- March 5, 2019
For a few weeks after protests reignited in Haiti’s major cities on 7 February 2019, the media carried images of angry protesters and much speculation on what this meant for the embattled country. Familiar tropes dominated the narrative: “the people” were fed up with “corruption” and inequalities perpetuated by “elites” supported by “the West,” yet
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