Health

WHO: Better Health for Everyone, Everywhere — Except Taiwan 0
- Analysis
- May 17, 2019
The World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), meets 20–28 May in Geneva. Although the WHO promises “better health for everyone, everywhere,” the organization systematically excludes one country from the annual discussions. Taiwan, officially …
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Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania 0
- Analysis
- November 16, 2018
by Dane Degenstein

Tanzania has recently started a campaign to identify, track down, and arrest gay people, an unprecedented move in a previously more tolerant country. The regional governor of Dar es Salaam, Paul Makonda, announced a task force to …
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The Future of Sustainable Protein is… Complicated 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Opioids and Capitalism 0
- Analysis
- July 10, 2018
by Paulo Pereira

In recent years, tens of thousands of Americans have died of opioid related overdoses, and millions of Americans are classified by the country’s health agency standards as having some sort of problematic opioid use. Canada is facing …
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Bangladesh on the Move, Part 1: A Development Breakthrough 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Bangladesh on the Move, Part 2: Future Prospects 0
- Analysis
- 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 …
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Drug Dealers on Death Row?0
- Analysis
- March 25, 2018
By Dane Degenstein

Donald Trump has suggested the death penalty for drug dealers.

It has been difficult to pin down President Trump’s policies on anything and the opioid crisis is no different. The fact that he uses language similar …
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The Ethics of Buying Clothes Produced in Sweatshops 0
- Analysis
- February 26, 2018
International Development Week (IDW), hosted by undergraduate students of the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, took place the week of 5 February 2018. Hundreds of Ottawa-area undergraduate students enthusiastically participated in discussions designed …
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The Nuclear Renaissance is Dead… Did Canada Miss the Memo?0
- Analysis
- November 11, 2017
Since the early 2000s, there has been much talk about the “nuclear renaissance” — the expected revival and expansion of the civilian nuclear energy industry. The idea has largely been kept afloat by industry efforts to promote nuclear energy as …
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The Hidden Connection between Obesity, Heart Disease, and Trade 0
- Analysis
- October 24, 2017
This week, representatives from most of the world’s governments are meeting at a World Health Organization global conference in Uruguay to tackle the global pandemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

These NCDs are the chronic diseases — including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, …
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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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