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Information Gap About Zehaf-Bibeau Threatens Security
- Analysis
- June 5, 2015
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 4, 2015 The release of several reports into the attack by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau on Parliament Hill last October reveal some missed opportunities to apprehend the shooter before he entered Parliament. The major lessons that needed to be learned were long available and pre-dated the Zehaf-Bibeau attacks. It took the
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Canada Needs to Do a Better Job of Managing Financial Uncertainty
- Analysis
- June 5, 2015
Published in the Hill Times, May 25, 2015 As Canadians, we pride ourselves on how well our financial regulations coped with the 2008 financial crisis. Given this attitude, it’s not surprising that Canadian policymakers have avoided a major overhaul to our regulations in response. Yet we need to make sure that this pride in our
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How Do Global Norms Bear on Reconciliation with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?
- Analysis
- June 3, 2015
This week, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Justice Murray Sinclair, released its preliminary findings from a five-year inquiry into the terrible era of residential schools for Aboriginal children in Canada. These findings, and the surrounding public discussion, touched on a wide range of topics: the abuses inflicted on children in those schools, their
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At Any Cost: The Injustice of the ‘4 and 4’ Rule in Canada
- Analysis
- June 1, 2015
By Stephanie J. Silverman Published on openDemocracy, May 29, 2015 Tens of thousands of law-abiding foreign workers residing in Canada became deportable last April. This sudden vulnerability to deportation resulted from the Parliamentary passage of a small legislative change called the “cumulative duration rule”, known colloquially as the “4 in, 4 out” or the “4
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