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The G7: Hard Talk or a Sleepwalk?
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- May 24, 2018
by Jeremy Kinsman As the Charlevoix G7 approaches, there is some question as to how the June 8–9 summit could play out as a Trumpian disaster. As veteran diplomat Jeremy Kinsman writes, if the disruptive president plays skunk at the La Malbaie garden party, Justin Trudeau should think about publicly calling him out on it
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1983 GAC Document Still Relevant Today: “The Crisis of Quality” Revisited
- Analysis
- May 17, 2018
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is under pressure from a variety of directions and for different reasons: the Prime Minister’s India trip; a lacklustre policy performance under the Trudeau government; indifferent communications with the Canadian public; and, at the top, confusion among ministers as to who is in charge of what. It isn’t the first time
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China’s Thought Police Handcuff Canadian Businesses
- Analysis
- May 16, 2018
When I received Air Canada’s promotional email about a worldwide seat sale this week, I immediately checked their website to book my August trip to Taipei. To my surprise, the list of destinations had been changed to read “Taipei, China” rather than “Taipei, Taiwan.” This change is Air Canada’s reaction to directives sent in April
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Why We Need to Stop Letting Economic Crises go to Waste
- Analysis
- April 30, 2018
There’s a popular adage that we should never let a good crisis go to waste. Yet, arguably, that’s what we’ve been doing for decades now. We’ve avoided facing the genuine political challenges that economic crises present us and lost these opportunities to build a more equitable, effective society. Although we seem to have dodged the
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