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Canada and emerging markets
July 2, 2012, Comments Off on Canada and emerging markets

Changing Global Reality (.pdf) Since 2009, nearly all the world’s growth has come from emerging powerhouses led by Chi ...

Is Greece European?
June 6, 2012, Comments Off on Is Greece European?

By Robert D. Kaplan Stratfor 6 June 2012 Greece is where the West both begins and ends. The West — as a humanist i ...

Population growth, migration and climate change
June 1, 2012, 2 Comments

Forced Migration Online UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund Making data dance (The Economist) Hans Rosling has bec ...

Canada in 2011: International relations/Foreign policy
December 31, 2011, Comments Off on Canada in 2011: International relations/Foreign policy

Foreign Affairs & International Trade (DFAIT) The North-South Institute ++++++++++++++++++ Derrick O’Keefe: Mi ...

Wednesday Night #1556
December 28, 2011, 1 Comment

Wednesday Night is, of course, open for business between Christmas and New Year’s – which seems now to have ...

Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflict and governance (2011)
December 28, 2011, 1 Comment

 Africa 2011: top stories for the year to come A look ahead at the Africa stories that will be in the news in 2011. (Gl ...

"Forever Tandem" by David and Teresa Jones
December 24, 2011, Comments Off on "Forever Tandem" by David and Teresa Jones

The boy from Scranton meets the girl from Novasibirsk–and they “do diplomacy” for 30 years. “For ...

Wednesday Night #1550
November 15, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1550

This week, we have a double treat. Fiona is flying in from Calgary for a 5-day visit, neatly arranged to permit her to b ...

Canada in 2010 and 2011 – Immigration
November 4, 2011, 1 Comment

Background: Flight to Canada: The refugee process (March 2010) Canada to reform refugee system: Kenney Proposed reforms ...

Collapse of the Soviet Union and its importance in 2011
November 4, 2011, 1 Comment

Chanting ‘Russia for Russians,’ thousands of nationalists and neo-Nazis march through Moscow (WaPost) Thousands of f ...

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