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Two Tweets on Iran That Speak Volumes About Ottawa
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- November 26, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 25, 2013 As months of negotiations between the “P5+1” world powers and Iran concluded on Saturday night with the announcement of a deal struck in Geneva, Canada’s role at this historic moment was never in doubt. Having suspended diplomatic relations with Iran in 2012, and hurled a continual stream
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As Iran Opens to the World, Canada is Left Behind
- Analysis
- November 25, 2013
by John Mundy Published in The Globe and Mail, November 25, 2013 The earth moved Sunday in Geneva when the United States, its P5 plus 1 negotiating partners and Iran came to an interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Only time will tell whether it is the start of a longer affair or just a
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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott
- Analysis
- November 18, 2013
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which concluded on the weekend in Sri Lanka, was hotly debated over the past few weeks. Now that the meeting has ended, what impact has the boycott had? Did Harper’s boycott, alongside similar decisions by the Indian and Mauritian Prime Ministers, embarrass
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Sexy Vanilla: Canada-EU Free Trade
- Analysis
- November 14, 2013
by Robert Hage The same week that celebrity British street artist Banksy upset New Yorkers by saying the new World Trade Center is “vanilla…and looks like something they would build in Canada”, an Economist headline stated, “Canada doesn’t get any sexier than this.” What so excited the Economist was a trade agreement: the Canada-EU Comprehensive
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