November 1, 2002
Saddam Hussein’s regime is a grave and gathering danger
Our common security is chal- lenged by regional conflicts”” ethnic and religious strife that is ancient, but not inevitable. In the Middle East, there can be no peace for...
November 1, 2002
Is doctrine of pre-emption necessary to deal with Iraq?
Like all Americans, I have been wrestling with the question of what our country needs to do to defend itself from the kind of intense, focused and enabled hatred that...
November 1, 2002
A conflict could endanger the greater region
Let me be clear from the start: The tension that prevails throughout the world as we speak is a direct consequence of the persistent refusal of the government of...
November 1, 2002
Multilateralism or unilateralism – whither American foreign policy?
Very broadly speaking, there are two major tenden- cies discernable in American foreign policy over the last 200 years or so. One can be said to be charac- terized...
November 1, 2002
How (not) to look at proposals to reform Canadian health care
What is the best public-private model for Canadian health care? This question has been central in much of the health reform debates of the 1990s and early 2000s. There...
November 1, 2002
The illusion of financial unsustainability of Canadian health care
Public health care in Canada is portrayed with increas- ing frequency and urgency as being financially unsustainable. However, current patterns of public health expenditures in Canada provide little evidence...
November 1, 2002
Canadians prepared to accept Medicare reform in primary care, polling shows
Canadians have been subjected to a string of recom- mendations from think tanks, lobbyists and some media outlets that the health-care system is not sustainable, that it is in...
November 1, 2002
Are farm subsidies a fair target?
Farm subsidies were the target of much criticism at the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development. Arguments first expressed by the World Bank and, amazingly, the NGO community were echoed...
November 1, 2002
How much diversity can Canadian courts tolerate?
Canadian courts in the age of the Charter are leading us into a debate about the nature and extent of eth- ical diversity that the Canadian polity will accept. Several...
November 1, 2002
History-teaching in Canada: The past does not change but its interpretation can alter radically
The past is a foreign country,” wrote an otherwise obscure English novelist, L.P. Hartley, ”œthey do things differently there.” An American scholar, David Lowenthal, borrowed the phrase for a...
November 1, 2002
Policy-making and moral reasoning: why the CIHR guidelines on pluripotent stem cell research are inadequate
On March 4, 2002, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) released guidelines on the public federal funding of research using human pluripotent stem cells. While there are many...
November 1, 2002
Le fiasco de la politique linguistique canadienne dans la region d’Ottawa-Hull
À cheval sur l’Ontario et le Québec, la conurbation d’Ottawa-Hull sert depuis un quart de siècle de ter- rain d’essai aux principes de personnalité et de ter- ritorialité qui...