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  • Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation

    Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation

    • December 18, 2018

    By Gabriel Bichet, Eve Cassavoy, Maddie Hunt, Jasmine Sebastian, and Emma Turner (ENG1100Q), edited by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr

    In September, I took on teaching three sections of ENG1100: Workshop in Essay Writing, a required course for first-year students at the University …

    By CIPS
    Éducation, Environment, Human Rights
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  • Human and Non-Human Rights — Convergence or Conflict?

    Human and Non-Human Rights — Convergence or Conflict?

    • December 10, 2018

    Today is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Most reflections on this milestone are likely to sound a sombre note, dwelling on the many challenges faced by those championing human rights in an increasingly …

    By David Petrasek
    Environment, Human Rights, United Nations
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  • The Future of Sustainable Protein is… Complicated

    The Future of Sustainable Protein is… Complicated

    • October 28, 2018

    “The Paleoketoveganmacrofasting Diet: Stop the Madness!!!” This was the amusing title of a recent presentation by Dr. Shawn Arent, a kinesiology professor at Rutgers University. The talk was aimed at personal trainers. But for the rest of us, the title …

    By Ryan Katz-Rosene
    Economy, Environment, Health
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  • Trans Mountain Clarifies Canada’s Climate–Energy Choices

    Trans Mountain Clarifies Canada’s Climate–Energy Choices

    • October 3, 2018

    Since the court decision of August 30th 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
    Economy, Environment, Indigenous Peoples
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  • Ford and the Future of Canadian Climate Policy

    Ford and the Future of Canadian Climate Policy

    • September 6, 2018

    In the fallout from Doug Ford’s election as Premier of Ontario, two things have dominated public debate regarding climate policy. One, the provincial cap and trade plan along with the court case to stop the federal government from imposing a …

    By Matthew Paterson
    Economy, Environment, Science
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  • Small States vs. Middle Powers — What’s the Difference?

    Small States vs. Middle Powers — What’s the Difference?

    • July 15, 2018

    Njord Wegge, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

    In early June 2018, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide expressed in an interview with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that Norway, as a “middle-sized economy,” benefited from …

    By CIPS
    Defence and Intelligence, Environment, Europe, International Relations
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  • Has the G7 Lost its Mojo?

    Has the G7 Lost its Mojo?

    • June 17, 2018

    After a series of sessions on global trade and the key Canadian priorities of gender equality and climate change, the highly anticipated two-day Group of Seven (G7) summit ended Saturday afternoon in Charlevoix, Quebec.

    There had been hopes for a …

    By John Sinclair
    Canadian Foreign Policy, Economy, Environment, Europe, International Relations, USA
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  • Sentinels of the Pacific: What Seabirds Tell Us about the Oil Industry

    Sentinels of the Pacific: What Seabirds Tell Us about the Oil Industry

    • June 8, 2018

    When ornithologist Hisashi Sugawa of the Bird Banding Association invited me this May to accompany his team to the ongoing investigation of the Streaked Shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas) on Kanmuri Island, an uninhabited island under the jurisdiction of Maizuru …

    By Scott Simon
    Asia, Environment, International Trade
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  • Why Nationalizing the Trans Mountain Pipeline is Undemocratic

    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
    Democracy, Economy, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, International Trade
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  • Bangladesh on the Move, Part 1:  A Development Breakthrough

    Bangladesh on the Move, Part 1: A Development Breakthrough

    • June 5, 2018

    Bangladesh, a country branded at its birth, in 1971, as a bottomless development basket by Henry Kissinger, marches forward. Proving Kissinger’s words wrong, this development success story unfolds in one of the poorest countries of the world.

    The country moves …

    By Nipa Banerjee
    Asia, Economy, Éducation, Environment, Health, International Development, Women
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  • Bangladesh on the Move, Part 2: Future Prospects

    Bangladesh on the Move, Part 2: Future Prospects

    • June 5, 2018

    Read Part 1 of this article here.

    London-based research organization BMI has listed Bangladesh as one of six countries that will be growth performers in the period 2016–2025. Three major factors are identified as boosters of this growth. An …

    By Nipa Banerjee
    Asia, Economy, Éducation, Environment, Health, International Development, Women
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  • Standing Guard on Japan’s Most Western Point

    Standing Guard on Japan’s Most Western Point

    • March 30, 2018

    Yonaguni, Japan’s most westernmost inhabited island (pop. 1745), lies 111 km from Hualien (Taiwan), but more than 2000 km from Tokyo. Yonaguni is part of the Sakishima Islands that include the Yaeyama Islands to the west near Taiwan and the …

    By Scott Simon
    Asia, Environment, International Law
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