• Canada to Immigrants: Get Ready for your Unwanted Close-up!

    Canada to Immigrants: Get Ready for your Unwanted Close-up!

    Published in the Toronto Star, March 26, 2013 Lots of good news these days if you’re hoping to break into show biz: British music mogul Simon Cowell is now accepting YouTube auditions for his global talent search. And the news is even better if you’re a newcomer to Canada and are yearning to be discovered.

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  • The Hugo Chavez Legacy

    The Hugo Chavez Legacy

    Prime Minister Harper’s message to the Venezuelan people following the death of Hugo Chavez was curt.  Essentially, it amounted to “good riddance”.  Chavez was a galvanizing figure who commanded faint praise in many quarters.  But it’s one thing to relish the demise of a pesky irritant.  It’s another thing entirely to miss the broader picture

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  • Killing CIDA: The Wrong Solution to Real Problems

    Killing CIDA: The Wrong Solution to Real Problems

    Many supporters of DFAIT’s recently announced takeover of CIDA are invoking spurious arguments. More fundamentally, most commentators are missing the crucial point that this new arrangement will do little or nothing to fix the actual problems with Canadian foreign aid. In fact, it is likely to make them worse. Many proponents of the merger actually

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  • Iran’s Nuclear Gamble, Canada and Obama’s Second Term

    Iran’s Nuclear Gamble, Canada and Obama’s Second Term

    CIPS Policy Brief No. 21, March 2013. By JOHN MUNDY, Visiting Associate, CIPS. War with Iran is closer than we may think, but is not inevitable. If war with Iran does occur, the likely tactical victory of the U.S. (and other supporting countries) will come with a larger political and strategic defeat due to the

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