• Budget 2022: What to Expect from Canada’s International Assistance

    Budget 2022: What to Expect from Canada’s International Assistance

    We have to give credit when credit is due, but also recognize obfuscations when we see them. The Canadian government’s 2022 budget, released on April 7, provides opportunities for both regarding development assistance. There is not much to parse, though, as not even two full pages of the 280-page budget document are devoted to “international assistance”. In

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  • Coopération arctique post-Ukraine: suspension ou rupture?

    Coopération arctique post-Ukraine: suspension ou rupture?

    L’invasion russe de l’Ukraine a eu des conséquences sur les relations internationales bien au-delà de la région directement concernée. Parmi bien d’autres, la région arctique a connu depuis la fin février des changements importants en réaction à cet acte de guerre. Le 3 mars, les sept pays arctiques, excluant la Russie, ont suspendu leurs participations

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  • 1500 Kilometres: The Distance between War and Refuge

    1500 Kilometres: The Distance between War and Refuge

    One thousand five hundred kilometres is roughly the distance between Hamburg and Kyiv. A week after Putin started his invasion of Ukraine, the city government of Hamburg proclaimed proudly that it had prepared 750 beds for refugees from Ukraine. As of March 15th, the official estimate of the number of people who have arrived searching

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  • The Injustice of Statelessness in Canada

    The Injustice of Statelessness in Canada

    A young man named Deepan Budlakoti remains caught in a legal limbo created and perpetuated by the Canadian government’s refusal to acknowledge his citizenship. He was born in Ottawa in 1987, and until 2009, he assumed that meant he was Canadian. At the age of 21 years old, and due to what are admittedly bad choices,

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