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Women Leaders Needed in the WTO
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- June 14, 2018
The Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment is a stepping stone on the road to advancing gender equality and the economic empowerment of women in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The best way to achieve gender equality in an organization is to change the leadership at the top so that it represents the population
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Sentinels of the Pacific: What Seabirds Tell Us about the Oil Industry
- Analysis
- June 8, 2018
When ornithologist Hisashi Sugawa of the Bird Banding Association invited me this May to accompany his team to the ongoing investigation of the Streaked Shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas) on Kanmuri Island, an uninhabited island under the jurisdiction of Maizuru City in Kyoto Prefecture, I accepted with enthusiasm. This monitoring project, sponsored by the Maizuru Board of
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Why Nationalizing the Trans Mountain Pipeline is Undemocratic
- Analysis
- June 8, 2018
When Canadians woke up to learn that they were the proud owners of a run-down pipeline, many of them no doubt asked themselves, “Can the government just do that?” After all, nationalization hasn’t been a popular government pastime in Canada since the 1970s. The answer is that of course the government can do that—and has
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Why Canada Should NOT Move its Embassy to Jerusalem
- Analysis
- June 5, 2018
by Jon Allen and Alan Freeman For President Donald Trump and many Israelis, the decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem is simply “a recognition of reality,” the fact that Jerusalem and not Tel Aviv is the functioning capital of the Jewish state. Facts on the ground may be intended to change realities and
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