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15 Proposals for Canadian Foreign Aid
- Analysis
- January 11, 2015
The French version of this essay was published on the Huffington Post Québec blog Un seul monde on January 8, 2015. When the Harper government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) in 2013, it promised “more efficient, effective and
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Engaging Iranian Dissidents, Or Catering to the Tory Base?
- Analysis
- January 11, 2015
The Canadian government is renewing its support for a project, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre, to provide Iranian dissidents with a secure means of communicating and circumventing Iranian censorship. The project will also be extended to provide similar services to dissidents in other countries. The idea of Western governments providing assistance to
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The Greatest Risk to UN Peace Operations
- Analysis
- December 17, 2014
The greatest risk to United Nations peace operations is not operational failure, but the growing divergence of opinion among countries that mandate, finance and supply personnel to these operations regarding the purposes and practices of peacekeeping itself. The UN currently runs 16 peacekeeping missions with roughly 103,000 uniformed personnel and 16,000 civilians – along with
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All I Want for Christmas…Is for Bob Geldof to Be Quiet
- Analysis
- December 10, 2014
When Sir Bob Geldof re-released the song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ to raise money for Ebola victims, I decided against writing a blog about it. Bob does not need me to do his promotion, I thought, and sure enough the song jumped straight to number one in the U.K. charts and became the fastest
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