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Israeli Strikes on Iran
- Analysis
- November 1, 2024
Israel’s recent attack on Iran was a militarily impressive feat. While much about the mission will remain secret for many years, some information is trickling out which permits an evaluation of what was accomplished, how it was done and, most importantly, what it means. Based on open sources, here is our conjecture. It must be
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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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