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Implications of the Kabul Restaurant Attack
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- January 19, 2014
Since news broke of Friday’s horrific suicide attack on the largely foreign clientele of a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, attention has understandably focused on the civilians who lost their lives, including two Canadians. But the event, which comes at a critical moment, could also have major implications for the international presence in Afghanistan. For those
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Why is Ottawa Accelerating its International Aid Budget Cuts by Stealth?
- Analysis
- January 14, 2014
by Bruce Montador The Harper government started two years ago to cut back on official development assistance (ODA), announcing in 2012 a three-year series of cuts (even if Canada is among the donor countries least under fiscal pressure to cut ODA). However, it is accelerating those cuts by stealth: specifically, by not spending large amounts
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Checking Whose Reality? Contra Burney/Hampson on Canada’s Mideast Policy
- Analysis
- January 11, 2014
Writing last week in the Globe and Mail (“Canada and the Middle East – A reality check”), Derek Burney and Fen Hampson aim to “set the record straight” regarding the Harper government’s diplomacy in the Middle East. Their effort to defend that policy, however, bends facts and distorts the “reality” they claim needs checking. For
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Passports Are Powerful Tools
- Analysis
- January 10, 2014
In A Thousand Farewells, her memoir of covering civil unrest and war in the Middle East, Canadian reporter Nahlah Ayed writes about the striking reception her citizenship received in that region. The Winnipeg-born daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Ayed found it difficult to convince Arabs she met that being Canadian was a deeply substantive identity, not
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