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Protecting Canada: A Dangerous Justification for Foreign Aid
Two prominent umbrella groups of Canadian development organizations – CCIC and CanWaCH – recently launched a COVID-themed campaign to drum up support for Canadian foreign aid. In doing so, they have embraced a nationalistic, threat-based case for aid that verges on xenophobia, reinforces outdated stereotypes and risks undermining foreign aid. The URL sums up their core message: AidHelpsCanada.ca. The
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COVID-19 Forces a Rethink of an Old Debate
- Analysis
- May 18, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a test of the preparedness of countries’ public health and governance systems. As countries diverge in their strategies to fight the epidemic, we have more and more opportunities for learning about what works and what doesn’t, both in terms of public health practices and in the types of political
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Remembering David Petrasek
- CIPS
- May 15, 2020
We have lost a wonderful colleague and friend. David Petrasek, associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and former director of the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), died on Monday after a long, hard-fought illness. David was no ordinary professor. He came to the University of Ottawa from a
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Israel-Palestine: Annexation Will Change Everything and Nothing
- Analysis
- May 14, 2020
On 29 April, Israelis celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the foundation of their state, while at the same time, on ‘Land Day,’ Palestinians mourned the Nakbah (catastrophe), which remembers the ethnic cleansing of some 700,000 people from their land in the 1948 war. While in previous years these events have been focal points for high
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