In a recent speech at a conference on liberal Internationalism in Toronto, Canada’s Minister for International Development Karina Gould discussed the usual topics, including the importance of her new portfolio, and described how people in …
Read MoreCanada’s report to Parliament for 2016-17 on what’s known as official development assistance, or ODA, is a 146-page tome about the government’s commitment to the world’s poor. According to the report, Canada spent $5 billion …
Read MoreIn describing a unique campaign to raise funds for children’s cancer research in the late 1940s, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes in The Emperor of All Maladies, “For any illness to rise to political prominence, it needed …
Read MoreA recent report published by the University of Southern California entitled Refugees and Migration Movements in the Middle East contains 15 chapters about refugees and displaced persons in the region by scholars specializing in the …
Read More
