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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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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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