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Celebrating What’s Risen Since the Berlin Wall Fell 0
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- November 7, 2014
They’re planning a big party in Germany this weekend to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with free concerts, a light show of 18,000 illuminated helium balloons and, of course, a speech by Chancellor …
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Mistral Misunderstandings 0
- Analysis
- November 6, 2014
Have you seen the reports that Canada is thinking about purchasing one or both of the Mistral-class warships that France has been building for Russia? They are almost certainly false.

The latest version of this story was published by the …
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Twitter and the #Ottawa Attacks 0
- Analysis
- November 2, 2014
As we move past the immediate shock, anger and grief precipitated by the attack in Ottawa last week, debate is beginning in earnest on several fronts: the motivation of the attacker, the adequacy of existing laws to meet ‘lone wolf’ …
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Will a New Development Architecture Undercut the Poorest?0
- Analysis
- October 29, 2014
We are still living in the global financial crisis. Much of Europe and even the world of emerging economies are in the doldrums. By some standards, the situation has become grimmer, with China and Germany joining the list of countries …
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Who Will Make the Middle East’s New Map?0
- Analysis
- October 29, 2014
Canada has now been directly affected by the turmoil raging in the Middle East. It is unfolding on many levels, reflecting the multitude of forces and tensions involved. One way to understand it is as an exercise in fundamentally re-drawing …
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What Economic Uncertainty Means for Canadian Policymakers 0
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- October 23, 2014
If you have been reading the financial press over the past week, you know that the global economy’s chances are looking a lot more uncertain these days. What you may not know, however, is that this more recent upswing in …
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S’élever dans l’adversité 0
- Analysis
- October 23, 2014
par Robert Asselin

Pour quiconque qui y a travaillé, l’endroit est impressionnant. Quand on marche dans le grand hall qui mène à la bibliothèque, là même où les coups de feu d’hier ont été perpétrés, on comprend que le Parlement …
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Ottawa Attacks: What We Must Do—and Not Do—in Response 0
- Analysis
- October 22, 2014
Locked in today at the University of Ottawa, looking down on the largely deserted canal bike path, several hundred metres from the cenotaph where this morning’s horrifying events began, I was stunned. I was also shaking, and afraid—but not out …
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Mexico’s Abducted Students: Where Does the Country Go From Here?0
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- October 20, 2014
by Claude Denis

How does one write about Mexico today?

The country is in full crisis mode after 43 students from the Ayotzinpa teachers’ college in rural Guerrero were kidnapped by the police on September 26, and six other people …
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Inside and Out at the Human Rights Museum 0
- Analysis
- October 12, 2014
Published on openDemocracy.net on October 14, 2014

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened this month in Winnipeg, in western Canada, reigniting a long-running controversy over its portrayal of human rights issues. Before turning to that debate, however, an initial …
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Spring Into Summer? The Tunisian Elections 0
- Analysis
- October 12, 2014
by Bruce Montador

Tunisia will soon complete the transition begun when President Ben Ali fled in January 2011. Under a new constitution, it will elect a parliament (via regional lists) this month, and then a president.

Although the constitution gives …
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This Isn’t the Kind of War Bombs Can Win 0
- Analysis
- October 10, 2014
Published in iPolitics, October 7, 2014

For starters, let’s stop calling them Islamic State. As President Barack Obama has pointed out, the mass murderers in black cutting a bloody trail through Iraq and Syria are neither truly Islamic nor …
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