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Turning Scientists into Sybils
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- October 26, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 2012 Danger is ubiquitous but accurate and timely warnings of it are relatively rare; proper risk assessment is one of the great policy challenges of our time. A decision this week by an Italian court to sentence six scientists and a government official to
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The Iranians We Left Behind
- Analysis
- October 26, 2012
by John Mundy Published in the Globe and Mail, October 25, 2012 When Canada closed its embassy in Tehran last month, it wasn’t just Canadian diplomats who were affected. We left behind a small number of local staff, and their plight deserves attention. Blindsided by Ottawa’s decision, they’re now in danger of becoming collateral damage
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Beyond 2015: MDGs, SDGs and Busan’s Global Partnership
- Analysis
- October 25, 2012
Despite a still-struggling global economy, one in which contagion from the developed world is now enveloping emerging economies, there is a boom in international donor-recipient diplomacy. Globalization is forcing us to recognize that there is no longer easily divisible rich and poor, North and South, but a new universality, a multi-layered world, with complex, often
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Romney’s Minority Report
- Analysis
- October 22, 2012
Weekly tracking polls by ImpreMedia & Latino Decisions are showing U.S. President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney, his GOP challenger, by about 45 points among Hispanic voters. The result is in line with dozens of similar polls taken during the 2012 campaign that point to the same thing: the Republican Party and its presidential nominee
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