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Trump, Tariffs and Free Trade, Part 1: What Everybody Got Wrong
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- March 31, 2025
Here is a sentence no one could have written in the 1980s: “Canada’s political parties and provincial governments are united in supporting free trade with the United States”. The 1980s featured a ferocious debate on whether free trade with the US would mean deindustrialization of the True North and perhaps even the end of Canadian
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Canada’s Africa Strategy: A Robust New Foreign Policy?
The timing was unusual. After being delayed by well over a year, the Trudeau government finally released its Africa strategy, a mere eight days before a new government was sworn in and probably only a few weeks before new federal elections are called. Many outside observers weren’t sure the document was ever going to see the
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What Was Said (And What Was Not Said)
- Analysis
- March 19, 2025
Double Truths: When Fiction Reveals What Academia Cannot
- Analysis
- March 17, 2025
After years working in the World Bank’s Result Measurement Unit, I found myself confronting an uncomfortable reality: development aid to impoverished countries primarily benefits aid facilitators, donors, and a select few wealthy clients—rarely empowering those it’s meant to help on the ground. Paraphrasing Voltaire, other countries have banks, but the World Bank as an institution
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