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Keeping the Hard Questions Hard: Reflections on Policy Critique
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- November 30, 2012
Punditry, like bread, is best consumed fresh—but occasionally, some quickly-skimmed pundit’s lines will lodge in the brain and take on profound depth as they age over the next days or weeks. That’s what happened when I read a recent article by Macleans writer Paul Wells, who was commenting on what my colleague Roland Paris referred
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The F-35 is Down but Not Out as Canada’s Next Fighter
- Analysis
- November 30, 2012
by Philippe Lagassé The Harper government recently announced that the National Fighter Procurement Secretariat (NFPS) will be looking at various options to replace Canada’s aging CF-18s. This comes at a time when the news about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the plane that the Department of National Defence (DND) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
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War with Iran: Real, Horrific Costs, but What Benefits?
- Analysis
- November 26, 2012
by John Mundy Published in the Globe and Mail, November 26, 2012 The Munk Debate on the question of war with Iran, to be held on Monday night in Toronto, could not be more timely. With elections finally decided in the United States and scheduled for January in Israel and July in Iran, all three
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Iran and the Next Obama Term
- Analysis
- November 26, 2012
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 2012 Iran was an issue in the U.S. election. Now that he has won, President Barack Obama has to decide what to do about it. There are no good options. Beyond the rhetoric over the need for a rapid attack, much of it coming, until recently, from Israeli
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