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Legislating Common Sense: Canada’s Lesson on Managing Growth

Just this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney announced plans that make it harder for Canadians to own a home. The average Canadian might not like the g...

by Donovon Kellyman

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WATCH: The race to save the Arctic

Our poles remain the only two parts of our planet unexploited by man, but the growing interest in oil and rich fishing grounds in the Arctic is leading to a free for all as nearby powerful nations scramble to declare the territ...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Canadian Foreign Policy: From Multilateralism To Pragmatism

Canada has had a tradition of foreign policy that supports multilateralism since the Second World War. From the United Nations to NATO, Canadian diplomats have used these multilateral platforms to conduct foreign policy initiat...

by Eva Uguen-Csenge

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Quebec’s Proposed “Charter of Values”: Secularism or Veiled Discrimination?

The highly controversial “Charter of Values” proposed by the Parti Quebecois has cast a dark shadow on Canada’s image as a country distinguished by the rights and freedoms it guarantees its uniquely diverse population. If...

by Lina Contreras

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Climate Change: Focus on the Arctic

The trends of climate change present a worldwide security challenge and require the adequate response of the international community. The negative impacts of these changes are demonstrated regionally in a different extent; larg...

by Lívia Magdošková

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Can Idle No More Fill the Gap Between Non-Aboriginals and First Nations?

On January 10th I was sitting on the edge of my couch watching the most intense airing of Power and Politics I had yet seen, as host Evan Solomon updated changes to Friday’s high profile meeting with the Assembly of First N...

by Urban Times

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Chief Spence Ends Her Hunger Strike; Can Idle No More Survive?

Last week, Chief Theresa Spence announced that she was ending her six-week-long hunger strike which began on December 11. Chief Spence initially started the strike in protest against the Canadian government’s latest omnibus...

by Urban Times

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WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

The National Film board of Canada has collaborated with the The New York Times Archive Department to create four interactive short films about the history of the highrise and modern living. These great feats of engineering have...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Legislating Common Sense: Canada’s Lesson on Managing Growth

WATCH: The race to save the Arctic

Canadian Foreign Policy: From Multilateralism To Pragmatism

Quebec’s Proposed “Charter of Values”: Secularism or Veiled Discrimination?

Climate Change: Focus on the Arctic

Can Idle No More Fill the Gap Between Non-Aboriginals and First Nations?

Chief Spence Ends Her Hunger Strike; Can Idle No More Survive?

WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

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