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Nearly seven years after Operation Apollo brought Canadian troops to Afghanistan, public opinion polls indicate that Canadians remain torn about the country’s continued presence there. As the Report of...

Zimbabwe resonates in Western consciousness like few places on earth. North Americans and Europeans of a certain age rooted for Zimbabweans trying to come out from under the burdens...

Afghanistan and the international community’s aid march continues from Bonn, Tokyo, Berlin, London and on to Paris. As the parade proceeds, the volume of aid requested and pledged increases...

In 1988, several waves of Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules transport aircraft arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, chock-full of famine relief supplies and medical personnel. These aircraft were requested after...

Since the Doha Round was launched the agricultural negotiations have staggered from crisis to crisis, but recently the elements of a potential deal in the World Trade Organization have...

Canadian government scientists estimate that the country’s continental shelf extension in the Arctic could be three-quarters of a million square kilome- tres. Not surprisingly, the delineation of the continental...

It has been said that each of the 13 colonies, prior to the American Revolution, had stronger ties with the British motherland than with any of the other 12....

In 2000, Canada, together with the 188 other members of the United Nations, made a commitment in the context of the Millennium Development Goals to work to eradicate extreme...

Generally speaking, the Canadian social safety net enjoys widespread support. This is certainly true of the health care system, which occupies the most prominent (and expensive) place in this...

D’après les plus récentes données de la mesure du panier de consommation (MPC), qui tient compte du coût de la vie différencié selon les provinces, le Québec affichait, en...

During the past two years, the cancellation Canada’s embryonic national early childhood education and child care (ECEC) program has had the effect of reigniting a long-standing public and political...

In March 1999, two years into his first term, British Prime Minister Tony Blair stunned observers by committing his government to an attempt to end child poverty in the...

Surveys consistently show that health is a top priority for the majority of Canadians (for instance, health care services and the health care system were found to be Canada’s...

Les gouvernements font beaucoup d’efforts pour « rendre le travail payant ». L’expression est paradoxale puisque dans une économie de marché, le travail est normalement échangé contre un salaire....

As an organization made up of chief executives and leading entrepreneurs, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) has an obvious and direct interest in the question of what...

When Alexander Baring of England’s great invest- ment banking house visited Upper Canada ”” today’s Ontario ”” in 1797, he adjudged it as recorded by Philip Ziegler in, The...

As widespread and as universally understood as they may be, the notions of left and right are not well thought of in the social sciences and in intellectual discourse....

In this fresh and interesting book, Alain Noéˆl and Jean-Philippe Thérien ”œseek to offer a better and more relevant interpretation of globalization, which connects the domestic and international politics...

D’entrée de jeu, je dois dire que j’ai accepté sans hésitation de lire le livre d’Alain Dubuc parce que j’estime, tout comme l’auteur, qu’il est grand temps que les...

As a Canadian military historian, I am predictably enmeshed in Canada’s experience in the First and Second World Wars. My only war- like experiences were with the Third World...

I admit it. For an economist, I’m an optimist in an industry known for its dismal scientists. I see the glass as half full. But in one area of...