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On the Fence: Canada’s Role in the Western Pacific Through An Election Lens
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- September 17, 2015
Canada’s election, in the 70th anniversary year of the conclusion of World War II, should be a time to ponder Canada’s role in the Western Pacific. Most pressing is the challenge of how Canada should respond to China’s increasingly ambitious territorial claims. China’s leaders exposed their aspirations on September 3 by marking the anniversary of
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EU Countries Must Work Toward Common Refugee Solution
- Analysis
- September 15, 2015
The German minister of the interior announced on the weekend that Germany would temporarily close its southern border. In so doing, the government would temporarily leave the so-called Schengen agreement, which allows the free movement of people in the Euro zone. To be sure, this is absolutely legal and conforms with European law, which allows
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Missing Indictments in the Case of Maher Arar
- Analysis
- September 10, 2015
© CHRIS WATTIE/Reuters/Corbis The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have laid a criminal charge against George Salloum, director of the Far Falestin prison in Damascus, Syria, where Maher Arar was tortured in 2002-03. At the same time, the Mounties issued an international Interpol ‘blue notice’ for Salloum’s arrest to enable his eventual extradition to Canada. The
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We Are All Responsible for the Safe Passage of Syrian Refugees
- Analysis
- September 8, 2015
Philosophers are fond of asking this question, to press peoples’ intuitions about the right thing to do: Imagine you are walking by a pond, in your fanciest suit on your way to an important meeting, and you notice a baby drowning in the pond. Whose job, asks the philosopher, is it to rescue the drowning
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