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Canada’s Afghanistan Aid Urgently Needs Review — But That Doesn’t Mean We Should Go It Alone
- Analysis
- November 28, 2018
The recent interaction of John Sopko — the American Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction — with the Canadian media on billions of wasted aid dollars in Afghanistan has stirred Canadian public interest on the forgotten subject of Canada’s Afghanistan mission. So much so that the Canadian government, which normally ignores Canadian critics’ warnings on
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Learning from Taiwan’s Push to Diversify Trade Away From China
- Analysis
- November 28, 2018
Rather than cozying up to non-market economies, Canada should support Taiwan’s inclusion in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade diversification seems increasingly important to Canada, especially after US President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed negotiations on the new US–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). In what some observers called a “poison pill,” Article 32.10 requires any party to consult
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How Do You Make Donald Trump Laugh? Democrats Should Think About It.
- Analysis
- November 23, 2018
By Jeremy Kinsman Many times in the past two years, people have told me they’ve never seen Donald Trump laugh. So, what would it take? A sure bet would be if — after the mid-term elections that bore very ominous tidings for President Trump’s hopes for re-election in 2020, because women voters chose Democrats for
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Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania
- Analysis
- November 16, 2018
by Dane Degenstein Tanzania has recently started a campaign to identify, track down, and arrest gay people, an unprecedented move in a previously more tolerant country. The regional governor of Dar es Salaam, Paul Makonda, announced a task force to “identify, track down and arrest gay people.” Makonda asked the public to assist in this
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