Economy

Canada Needs to Do a Better Job of Managing Financial Uncertainty 0
- Analysis
- June 5, 2015
Published in the Hill Times, May 25, 2015

As Canadians, we pride ourselves on how well our financial regulations coped with the 2008 financial crisis. Given this attitude, it’s not surprising that Canadian policymakers have avoided a major overhaul …
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How Do Global Norms Bear on Reconciliation with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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What Counts as Policy Failure — And Why it Matters 0
- Analysis
- March 6, 2015
When things go wrong in politics, the word ‘failure’ gets bandied around a lot. In recent weeks, we’ve heard about the failure of Canadian drug policy (as admitted by Stephen Harper), the failure of Canadian diplomatic efforts to get Barack …
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Is the Global Partnership Ready for Action?0
- Analysis
- February 25, 2015
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation was born at a global conference held in Busan, Korea in 2011 to confront concerns that old-fashioned aid (ODA) was not working. Billions were being spent and the Global South’s poor and vulnerable …
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The Global Backstory to the Ebola Outbreak 0
- Analysis
- February 12, 2015
With Ebola abating in the three most affected countries (Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea) there are now ex post reflections on what went wrong. There is much that did.

We can first ask why these countries were unable to deal …
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Shale Gale or Shale Fail? Will North America’s Leaders Miss the Boat on Energy?0
- Analysis
- February 21, 2014
by Monica Gattinger

At the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico this week, Prime Minister Harper, President Obama and President Pena Nieto committed to tasking their respective energy ministers to meet in 2014 to “discuss opportunities to promote common strategies …
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