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To Shun or Shake Hands? Assessing Harper’s CHOGM Boycott
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- 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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Canadian Foreign Policy for Dummies
- Analysis
- November 12, 2013
Published in the Toronto Star, November 11, 2013 So it’s come to this: not only are Canadian citizens being dumbed-down by political parties who treat them as narrow-minded consumerist taxpayers, but now the leading lights of Canada’s journalism establishment are joining in the effort. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from a review by Globe
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Rights to What Purpose? Free Speech and the U.S. Gun Control Debate
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- November 12, 2013
This past week saw a fascinating moment in the debate over guns and constitutional rights that so scars America. The cause was a gentleman named Richard (‘Dick’) Metcalf. A ‘pro gun’ advocate and lobbyist, Metcalf has written op-eds and articles for gun magazines over several decades decrying any attempt to infringe on the gun lobby’s
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