• Who Will Make the Middle East’s New Map?

    Who Will Make the Middle East’s New Map?

    Canada has now been directly affected by the turmoil raging in the Middle East. It is unfolding on many levels, reflecting the multitude of forces and tensions involved. One way to understand it is as an exercise in fundamentally re-drawing the region’s map. But the map-makers have vastly different objectives. The post-WWI Middle East is

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  • What Economic Uncertainty Means for Canadian Policymakers

    What Economic Uncertainty Means for Canadian Policymakers

    If you have been reading the financial press over the past week, you know that the global economy’s chances are looking a lot more uncertain these days. What you may not know, however, is that this more recent upswing in uncertainty and volatility is part of a much broader pattern in the global economy—one that

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  • S’élever dans l’adversité

    S’élever dans l’adversité

    par Robert Asselin Pour quiconque qui y a travaillé, l’endroit est impressionnant. Quand on marche dans le grand hall qui mène à la bibliothèque, là même où les coups de feu d’hier ont été perpétrés, on comprend que le Parlement est un lieu qui symbolise ce que nous sommes, et ce que nous devons toujours

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  • Ottawa Attacks: What We Must Do—and Not Do—in Response

    Ottawa Attacks: What We Must Do—and Not Do—in Response

    Locked in today at the University of Ottawa, looking down on the largely deserted canal bike path, several hundred metres from the cenotaph where this morning’s horrifying events began, I was stunned. I was also shaking, and afraid—but not out of any sense of personal peril. I felt perfectly safe, even knowing innocent people were

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