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Poverty, Inequality and Inclusiveness: Which Comes First?
- Analysis
- December 3, 2013
These overlapping concepts together frame what many define as one of the principal challenges of modern society in both developing and developed countries. They have recently come to focus for two distinct reasons. The global financial crisis has exposed new vulnerabilities in supposedly developed societies such as Greece and Spain, even the USA. These vulnerabilities
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How Canada Goes to War
- Analysis
- December 3, 2013
by Philippe Lagassé Canada’s military training mission in Afghanistan will end in 2014. When the Canadian Forces are next sent overseas, members of Parliament will likely vote on the mission. The Conservative government has made it a point to consult the House of Commons on military deployment decisions since 2006, and there is now an
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Breaking: New Snowden Document Shows Something But We Don’t Know Exactly What
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The headline above is the one that I think probably best captures the content of the NSA document at the heart of the recent Toronto G20/G8 spying story. This appears to be the first in the additional trove of documents that Glen Greenwald acquired from Snowden that pertain to Canada. Mr. Greenwald is working with
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There Is More to Foreign Policy than Trade
- Analysis
- November 28, 2013
The problem with Canada’s new Global Markets Action Plan is not that it seeks to promote Canadian commercial interests in foreign markets where our companies have the potential to succeed. No, the problem is that this strategy now looms over the rest of Canada’s foreign policy, which has largely withered during the years that the
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