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Nuclear Power: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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- December 3, 2012
Extreme events have the ability to radically change political, moral, technical and other debates that shape what governments say and do. The effect of the 2011 Fukushima disaster on national energy strategies was so far-reaching that it led many to forecast the death of nuclear power. In Europe, for example, the governments of Germany, Italy,
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Principle or Prejudice? Canada’s Misguided Denial of Palestinian Statehood
- Analysis
- December 3, 2012
Prime Minister Harper tweeted on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had called to thank him for Canada’s “friendship and principled position this week at the UN”. The friendship may be obvious, but one searches in vain for the principle at stake that compelled Canada to vote against non-member observer state status for Palestine. It
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Keeping the Hard Questions Hard: Reflections on Policy Critique
- Analysis
- 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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