
Canada’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, has promised a combination of “humility and audacity” for Canadian foreign policy. She will inevitably face a barrage of questions relating to important issues critical to Canadian foreign policy – from our relations with China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, to Canadian policy on shoring up crumbling democratic institutions,
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Biden’s first 100 days signals the end of the Third Way in economic and social policy. With massive investments proposed in social infrastructure and education, a willingness to take a positive-sum approach to budget deficits, and a commitment to fund those investments partly through higher corporate taxes, it’s clear that the Third Way is now
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While Europe had grown accustomed to the idea that catastrophes happen elsewhere, at least since the end of the Second World War, the Covid-19 pandemic was a humbling event. Its blatant socio-economic consequences have added more stress to the cycle of crises (financial, refugee, and climate) that have affected Europe in the past decade. The context is
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The COVID19 pandemic is the greatest single human tragedy of the internet era. We cannot be certain the end is in sight. The pandemic danger will not end if COVID is finally controlled. Other currently known diseases could surge into pandemics: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Nipah Virus, Ebola, swine flu, and yellow fever. As COViD19
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