
For many years Stephen Harper has carefully honed a narrative. It runs like this: “You may not like me personally, but you know in your heart that I am a good steward of the public purse, and that I am the best politician out there right now in terms of experience, ability and judgement.” These
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Guest blog post by Deborah Stienstra, Professor in Disability Studies, University of Manitoba Policy makers, researchers and activists may be skeptical about including disability in discussions about fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). There are so many urgent and competing priorities for development initiatives in these states—how can we possibly add one more? Yet disability is
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Fifteen years ago this month, Lloyd Axworthy, then Canada’s Foreign Minister, visited Norway. He and his Norwegian counterpart, Knut Vollebaek, had become friends, having discovered during their frequent meetings that they shared a similar world view. Their collaboration had already resulted in innovations like the creation of the Arctic Council. So Vollebaek wanted to make
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by John Mundy Published in the Globe and Mail, May 21, 2013 Imagine if U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had delivered the speech that Foreign Minister John Baird gave to the Global Dialogue on Iran’s Future last week in Toronto. Stock markets would have tanked; diplomats would be booking one-way flights out of Tehran
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