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Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Part One
September 12, 2015
Image credit: Sakis Mitrolidis, AFP, Getty Images , Ottawa Citizen by Peggy Mason, President of the Rideau Institute On September 8th a group of Canadians who have worked internationally on humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and peacebuilding issues, many of us under the auspices of the [now defunct] Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, sent a letter to the Minister […]
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Harper must be held accountable for failing Syrian Refugees
September 4, 2015
by Peggy Mason, President of the Rideau Institute Outrage continues to mount in the wake of the tragic drowning of a three year-old Syrian toddler, Ayan Kurdi, his 5 year-old brother and their mother, refugees fleeing the war in their country, and in light of the ever increasing evidence that Canada has put almost […]
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Canada MIA on science diplomacy
September 1, 2015
Daryl Copeland, writing for iPolitics, discusses the damage to Canada’s global brand wrought by the government’s ill-conceived war on science and rejection of evidence-based policy and decision-making. (“Will Canada be the country that dumbed itself to death?”, iPolitics, 31 August 2015). Scientific capacity is critical in treating the central problems of the globalization age, including […]
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Canada: A Dishonest Broker for Peace in the Middle East
August 28, 2015
Micha Kurz, writing for the Harper Decade.com, illustrates the kind of regressive and divisive Canada we’ve seen under the Harper regime, especially in its efforts (or lack thereof) to support peace negotiations in the Middle East. (“Canada: A Dishonest Broker for Peace in the Middle East“, TheHarperDecade.com, 27 August 2015). Although Harper touts the importance of […]
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