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Budget 2022: What to Expect from Canada’s International Assistance 0
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- April 12, 2022
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, …
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Coopération arctique post-Ukraine: suspension ou rupture?0
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- April 4, 2022
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 …
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1500 Kilometres: The Distance between War and Refuge 0
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- March 29, 2022
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 …
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The Injustice of Statelessness in Canada 0
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- March 29, 2022
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 …
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What was Behind the Indian Farmers’ Protests?0
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- March 28, 2022
Extreme nationalism and anti-Muslim hatred are mounting in India, all at the expense of its democracy. It is being led or coddled by the sitting Government of Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But the …
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Amnistie internationale : un réquisitoire essentiel 0
- Analysis
- March 14, 2022
Amnesty International vient de publier un document choc sur les droits de la personne en Israël et dénonce la politique d’apartheid du régime en place. Les réactions pavloviennes du côté tant du gouvernemental israélien que de la diaspora juive dans …
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Africa, Ukraine, and the New Geopolitics 0
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- March 9, 2022
When the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the African vote split right down the middle. Of the 54-member strong bloc, 28 voted for the resolution, 26 abstained or absented themselves, while Eritrea stood …
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Afghanistan: Tying Aid to Women’s Rights 0
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- March 8, 2022
As the world’s attention shifted dramatically to the Ukraine crises unfolding rapidly, the challenges posed by the humanitarian catastrophe threatening Afghanistan have been overshadowed and moved to the backseat. However, Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate as the country’s economy …
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Putin is Waging War on Eastern Ukraine 0
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- March 7, 2022
Historians have known for a long time that the idea that Ukrainians form a different nation than Russians, and therefore decide of their own destiny, is seen by Moscow, and a large segment of the Russian population, as artificial, as …
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Vladimir Putin: Saviour of NATO 0
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- March 2, 2022
To my knowledge, NATO does not have a “Person of the Year” award, but it should, and the inaugural award should go to none other than Vladimir V. Putin. No one has done more for the Atlantic Alliance in many …
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A New Approach is Needed to Blunt the Appeal of Far-Right Movements 0
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- February 18, 2022
The trucker convoy that rolled onto the streets of Ottawa late last month has become an unlikely cause célèbre for far-right movements and anti-vaxxers around the world. The scenario that has unfolded is not how Canada sees itself, and it …
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Obfuscation and Ventriloquy: Does Canada Speak for the World’s Poor?0
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- February 9, 2022
The tweet from Cooperation Canada after the webinar said it all: ‘“We want to be a voice for the low-income countries”, explains @HarjitSajjan of Canada’s response to the pandemic #COVID19 around the world’. Funny thing, we thought the low-income countries …
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