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  • WHO: Better Health for Everyone, Everywhere — Except Taiwan

    WHO: Better Health for Everyone, Everywhere — Except Taiwan

    • 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 …

    By Scott Simon
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  • Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania

    Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania

    • 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 …

    By CIPS
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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
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  • Opioids and Capitalism

    Opioids and Capitalism

    • 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 …

    By CIPS
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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
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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
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  • Drug Dealers on Death Row?

    Drug Dealers on Death Row?

    • 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 …

    By CIPS
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  • The Ethics of Buying Clothes Produced in Sweatshops

    The Ethics of Buying Clothes Produced in Sweatshops

    • 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 …

    By Nipa Banerjee
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  • The Nuclear Renaissance is Dead… Did Canada Miss the Memo?

    The Nuclear Renaissance is Dead… Did Canada Miss the Memo?

    • 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 …

    By Ryan Katz-Rosene
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  • The Hidden Connection between Obesity, Heart Disease, and Trade

    The Hidden Connection between Obesity, Heart Disease, and Trade

    • 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, …

    By Ronald Labonte
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  • The Global Backstory to the Ebola Outbreak

    • 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 …

    By Ronald Labonte
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Latest Posts

  • WHO: Better Health for Everyone, Everywhere — Except Taiwan
    WHO: Better Health for Everyone, Everywhere — Except Taiwan
    • Analysis
    • May 17, 2019
  • Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania
    Bulldozing Human Rights in Tanzania
    • Analysis
    • November 16, 2018
  • The Future of Sustainable Protein is… Complicated
    The Future of Sustainable Protein is… Complicated
    • Analysis
    • October 28, 2018
  • Opioids and Capitalism
    Opioids and Capitalism
    • Analysis
    • July 10, 2018
  • Bangladesh on the Move, Part 1:  A Development Breakthrough
    Bangladesh on the Move, Part 1: A Development Breakthrough
    • Analysis
    • June 5, 2018
  • Bangladesh on the Move, Part 2: Future Prospects
    Bangladesh on the Move, Part 2: Future Prospects
    • Analysis
    • June 5, 2018

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