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Heroes or Villains: How Significant are Central Banks to the Inflationary Cycle?
- Analysis
- October 24, 2024
As inflation finally drops below 2 per cent all eyes are on the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate decision on Wednesday, with markets predicting a half-percentage drop. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve finally started bringing rates down in September after raising them 11 times since March of 2022. Does this mean that central bankers
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Reflections on a Century of Israel’s “Iron Wall”
- Analysis
- October 23, 2024
Just over a century ago, Ze’ev Jabotinski wrote two short articles which examined how the Arab population of Palestine would react to the creation of a Jewish majority there. Jabotinski led a branch of the Zionist movement, the Revisionists, who were engaged in a bitter dispute with the mainstream of Zionism over how to deal
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“Blended Finance is not for NGOs”: Canadian Development Cooperation Organizations and the Beyond Aid Agenda
- Analysis
- October 21, 2024
Time is running out for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Donor governments, including Canada, have increasingly turned to blended finance—using public money to leverage private sector investments—to fill the financing gap and meet the SDGs. While blended finance purports to go ‘beyond aid’ in the context of shrinking aid budgets, it is becoming
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Canada Needs a Paradigm Shift in Supporting Democracy Abroad: Leveraging Activists-in-Exile
- Analysis
- October 14, 2024
Canada has long championed human rights and democratic governance as core components of its foreign policy. Programs like the Voices at Risk guidelines reflect this commitment by supporting Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)—individuals recognised by the United Nations for their advocacy, though the term itself has limitations. While Canada provides resettlement for a limited number of HRDs, there
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