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The Iranians We Left Behind
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- 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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Only Two Cheers for Religious Freedom
- Analysis
- October 15, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 15, 2012 Discussing democracy in his 1938 essay “What I Believe” E. M. Forster provocatively writes that “(t)wo cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.” Democracy deserves credit for contributing to a decent public sphere, he says; but it can’t be
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