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The End of Canada’s Exorbitant Privilege: Mapping Where We Go From Here
- Analysis
- March 26, 2024
Canadians are uncertain, angry, and frustrated as they face declining living standards, fraying social cohesion, and an evermore interconnected world that brings serious threats home rather than leaving them far away. Our complacency has run its course. A new national discourse is urgently needed. Canada’s geography and history, occasionally aided by innovative and forward-thinking leadership,
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Four Lessons from the Career of Peter Hancock
- Analysis
- March 25, 2024
On March 15, a small group of family, foreign service retirees, and friends from the Niagara region assembled in Niagara-on-the-Lake to celebrate the life of Peter J. A. Hancock, who died on Dec. 18, 2023, at the age of 85. Few people outside the Canadian foreign service will know of Peter Hancock, or his formidable
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Has Canada Gone Too Far in Blocking Mining Investments from Chinese Companies?
SRG Mining announced this week that it was putting an end to Carbon One New Energy Group’s proposed $16.9-million investment in the Canadian miner. Although the company did not officially say so, the belief is that a national security review by the federal government was going to scupper the transaction between SRG and C-One of China. Under
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La descente dans l’enfer ou une sortie de la crise en Haïti : quel rôle pour le Canada?
- Analysis
- March 11, 2024
Par Stephen Baranyi et Youdeline Chérizard Depuis le début de mars, la crise sécuritaire et humanitaire en Haïti s’est dramatiquement aggravée. Des gangs fédérés sous le parapluie du G9, dirigés par Jimmy Chérizier, ont libéré environs 4500 prisonniers de deux centres de détention dans la capitale, Port-au-Prince. Ils ont aussi attaqué environ 16 commissariats de
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