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Why We Aren’t Ready for the Next Financial Crisis
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- September 27, 2018
Ten years ago, as the global economy slipped ever closer to a total meltdown, regulators were slow to recognize the severity of the problem because they were looking in the wrong direction. Transcripts from the US Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee meeting that took place on Sept. 16, just as the financial giant Lehman Brothers was
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What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?
- Analysis
- September 19, 2018
by Hunter McGill and Stephen Brown Every five years or so, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts a “peer review” of the countries that belong to its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). This year was Canada’s turn and the report has just been released. What did Canada’s peers have to say about Canadian
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Decisive Action is Overdue to Protect the Rohingyas
- Analysis
- September 15, 2018
By John Packer Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa and Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution Finally, the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar has stated the obvious: the Rohingya ethnic minority has been subjected to genocide. The UN Mission identified four of the five
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Canada’s Feminist International Assistance: Can Bad Policy be Well Implemented? (Part 1)
- Analysis
- September 13, 2018
Last summer, the government of Canada launched its “feminist international assistance policy,” a radical rebranding to a “truly feminist approach that supports the economic, political and social empowerment of women and girls, and makes gender equality a priority, for the benefit of all people.” By 2022, at least 95% of Canada’s international assistance spending will
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