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Development Partnership Part 2: A Canadian Action Agenda
- Analysis
- October 10, 2018
This blog continues from Part 1, The Way of the Future. A solid agenda exists of desirable institutional changes in Global Affairs Canada (GAC, and other public entities) over the next few years. We need to start building new partnerships — some developmental, others political and commercial, some academic, and some even involving public institutions
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Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development
- Analysis
- October 10, 2018
Of late, many commentators, from humble bloggers to the more august Toronto Star and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have lamented Canada’s relative lack of generosity in foreign aid and called on the Canadian government to increase the aid budget. Canada is indeed a laggard compared to its peers and the Trudeau government is less generous than
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Understanding “Ethnic Conflict”
- Analysis
- October 7, 2018
By Marie-Eve Desrosiers and Srdjan Vucetic “Ethnic conflict” elicits no shortage of strong scholarly opinion and debate. But what exactly is the causal relationship between ethnicity and violence? And what does “causal” mean in this context anyway? Since ethnic conflict scholars very rarely explain how they understand causes and effects, they seem to take definitions
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Trans Mountain Clarifies Canada’s Climate–Energy Choices
- Analysis
- October 3, 2018
Since the court decision of August 30th that put the Trans Mountain pipeline on hold —and the cat decidedly among the pigeons — Canada’s energy/climate politics has been strangely quiet. Trans Mountain was the last of a batch of new pipelines proposed to get oil/tar sands oil to the Pacific coast. Northern Gateway had been
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