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Canada Must Dream Big and Spend Big as it Faces the Trump Threat
- Analysis
- March 10, 2025
It should now be clear to Canadians that we face an existential threat from a United States that has gone full MAGA. In response, Canada must go full GIGA! Giga, of course, means “giant” in Greek, and that’s the size of the effort needed to protect Canada. Canada’s giant response to the MAGA threat means that we
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Why is the United States Leaving the WHO?
- Analysis
- February 24, 2025
On January 20, 2025, one of Donald Trump’s first executive orders was to withdraw the United States from the WHO (World Health Organization). In 1975, the Republican Gerald Ford decided to leave the ILO (International Labour Organization). The Reagan administration withdrew from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1983. In both cases,
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The Rise of Nature-Related Risk and the Climatization of Biodiversity
- Analysis
- February 18, 2025
As biodiversity loss accelerates, financial actors are increasingly engaging with the issue—but not under the banner of biodiversity itself. Instead, they are embracing nature-related risk, an umbrella concept modeled after, aligned with, and integrated into existing climate finance frameworks. This shift raises critical implications for global biodiversity conservation, as it risks prioritizing the most financially
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The Rate of Change and the Role of the State: Understanding Fracture in Today’s World from a Polanyian Perspective
- Analysis
- January 27, 2025
We live in a period of profound change and transformation, with neoliberalism now under siege and becoming channeled in new directions. At the center of all of this is the state, especially states that are also great powers. Shifting geopolitical fortunes, the impact of technological change, the corrosion of established political institutions and the pernicious
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