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The Final Push: Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal
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- July 15, 2015
By Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté and Ashley Schram The Trans-Pacific Partnership is nearing the end game of negotiations, creating a market of 800 million people with a combined economic clout of US$28-trillion annually. After the U.S. Congress granted fast-track authority to President Obama, a final agreement among the 12 Pacific-rim countries involved in the trade
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Iran is Cutting its Losses with a Nuclear Deal
- Analysis
- July 8, 2015
By Thomas Juneau Published on War on the Rocks, July 7, 2015 This week will likely — and finally — witness the dénouement of the longstanding nuclear dispute between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany). Now that we’ve reached the July 7 deadline, there appears to
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The Summer of Cyber Attacks
- Analysis
- July 6, 2015
Published in the Ottawa Sun, July 3, 2015 Two things can be said about Ottawa’s summer, so far. One is that it has been wet; the other is that it’s been raining cyber attacks on federal government websites. The most recent have been nuisance attacks on the website of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, conducted
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For Greece, Voting No to Euro Would Mean Five Years of Austerity Wasted
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- July 6, 2015
Published in the Globe and Mail, July 3, 2015 On Sunday, Greeks will vote in a referendum on whether they want their country to stay inside the euro area and possibly the European Union. To avoid economic calamity and making the past five years a complete waste of time, energy, money and even people, Greeks
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