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GardaWorld and Former Child Soldiers: The Price of Global Success?
- Analysis
- April 28, 2016
by Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams Many Canadians will know GardaWorld from airport security, the routine removal of shoes, belts, and “any gels or liquids.” Fewer will know that the Montreal-based company is also a global security provider with ambitions to expand in emerging markets in Africa and the Middle East. It already operates
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Intersectionality and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Global Development
- Analysis
- April 28, 2016
by Julianne Acker-Verney, Pamela Johnson, and Susan Manning Intersectionality is a tool that can guide researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to learn about and respond to the diverse experiences of women and men, girls and boys with disabilities and the social structures and systems that often exclude and silence them. Persons with disabilities are often
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Central Banks Facing Credibility Trap
- Analysis
- April 27, 2016
When the Governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, insisted in New York this week, “the idea that monetary policy just isn’t working any more [is] one myth I’d like to dispel right off the top,” he was right — to a point. Yes, exceptionally low interest rates and other unconventional monetary policies
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EU or Commonwealth: Where Does Canada Fit in Britain’s Plans?
- Analysis
- April 27, 2016
In 2009, George Monbiot wrote a much-trafficked op-ed in The Guardian on the Canadian tar sands political-industrial complex, blaming it for the “astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state.” The author blamed the government of Stephen Harper and its then anti-climate talks antics in particular: “The immediate threat to the global effort to
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