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How the Insurance Sector is Practically Ignorant to Climate Risks
- Analysis
- April 22, 2025
With the financial losses of climate change increasing by the year, claims made to the insurance sector have followed suit. This has both driven up premiums across the sector but, more importantly, revealed how many assets are uninsured against climate change. Yet in the knowledge of the problems posed by climate risk, the insurance sector
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Growing Knowledge, Growing Nations: Indigenous Autonomy in the Academy
- Analysis
- April 17, 2025
In early April, 2025 I had the honour of speaking at the GCTF Workshop on Indigenous Prosperity across the Indo-Pacific, hosted by the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa. Representing the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, I shared a message that has guided our work for nearly
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A Response to Our Critics – Re: Can Canada-U.S. Defence Ties Survive Trump?
- Analysis
- April 2, 2025
On March 21, we published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail arguing that Canada had to become less reliant on the United States in matters of national defence. We held that Canada should rely more on itself and build new partnerships and alliances. Since the op-ed was published, we have had pushback from many
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Trump, Tariffs and Free Trade, Part 2: Implications for Canada
- Analysis
- April 1, 2025
From 1945 until recently, the United States served as the cornerstone of the liberal rules-based international order in trade, finance and security. Sometimes, the US played this role unwillingly or half-heartedly, sometimes hypocritically. Occasionally, the US acted illegally and undermined that order, while supporting other aspects of that order, notably the economic parts. But those
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