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Low-Fee Private Schools and Development: What Do We Really Know?
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- September 8, 2015
by Prachi Srivastava I have been researching low-fee private schooling for nearly a decade and a half. No one could be happier that the issue is finally receiving the high-level attention it deserves, with discussions in development circles and an Economist cover story in August. When I first started the research it concerned me that
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Pause Before You Laugh at Governor Walker
- Analysis
- September 2, 2015
Election campaigns are comedy fodder. This week’s top supplier is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the man running for the Republican presidential nomination in the United States. When queried on Sunday by Chuck Todd of NBC News’ Meet the Press about the risk of terrorists sneaking across US borders to launch attacks, Walker called the idea of
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Terror No-Go Zones an Election-Friendly Scrap
- Analysis
- August 16, 2015
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, August 14, 2015 The campaign trail declaration by the Stephen Harper Conservatives to set up a regime of designated no-go terrorist activity zones is a left-over from the omnibus anti-terrorism legislation that the government introduced and passed earlier in 2015. The proposal for yet another tweak to Canada’s anti-terrorism legislation
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Unlike Canadian Expats Living Abroad, Non-Citizen Residents Are Directly Impacted by our Laws, Yet Have No Say in Them
- Analysis
- August 13, 2015
Published in the National Post, July 31, 2015 Donald Sutherland is upset. He wants to vote in Canadian elections because he feels Canadian, because he has to restrain himself from saying “eh?” and because he’s a citizen. But he’s a non-resident citizen, and the Ontario Superior Court has just upheld a federal election law restricting
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