Indigenous Peoples

The Rohingya Genocide Is Far from Just a Dispute between The Gambia and Myanmar: Time for Canada to Join
- June 3, 2020
While the Rohingya continue to endure an ongoing genocide both inside and outside their homeland, several international legal mechanisms churn slowly in parallel.

The last two weeks have seen moments of progress. First, an Argentinian court decided to consider an …
By John Packer
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Trans Mountain Clarifies Canada’s Climate–Energy Choices
- October 3, 2018
Since the court decision of August 30^th that put the Trans Mountain pipeline on hold —and the cat decidedly among the pigeons — Canada’s energy/climate politics has been strangely quiet. Trans Mountain was the last of a batch of …
By Matthew Paterson
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Why Nationalizing the Trans Mountain Pipeline is Undemocratic
- June 8, 2018
When Canadians woke up to learn that they were the proud owners of a run-down pipeline, many of them no doubt asked themselves, “Can the government just do that?” After all, nationalization hasn’t been a popular government pastime in Canada …
By Jacqueline Best
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Budget 2018: A Bit of Good News for Development
- March 1, 2018
by Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

If you watched Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget speech in the House of Commons yesterday, you had to be paying close attention to catch the one sentence that refers to foreign aid: “We will …
By Stephen Brown
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Once More: What is Canada?
- December 11, 2017
In November 1964, the venerable American magazine The Atlantic published a special supplement on Canadian politics and society. It featured excellent, almost exclusively Canadian-authored articles: by John W. Holmes, the wordy Canadian diplomat, on “The Diplomacy of a Middle Power”; …
By Srdjan Vucetic
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How Do Global Norms Bear on Reconciliation with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?
- June 3, 2015
This week, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Justice Murray Sinclair, released its preliminary findings from a five-year inquiry into the terrible era of residential schools for Aboriginal children in Canada. These findings, and the surrounding public discussion, touched …
By Natalie Brender
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