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Q. You see the place where they broke through the French, they threw all the Canadian reserves the night of the 22nd, they threw all the Canadian reserves into...

In October 2010, only months after the country was devastated by a massive earthquake, Haiti was afflicted with another human tragedy: the outbreak of a cholera epidemic, now the...

By now we recognize that economic, social, and psychological factors are all at play in determining happiness. There has been considerable recent attention given to the challenges of falling...

Education seldom figures in assessments of the damage inflicted by conflict. International attention and the media invariably focus on the most immediate images of humanitarian suffering, not on the...

If you read the list of signatories to the Iran Project’s April 2013 call for more virile diplomacy with Iran, you’ll see an impressive collection of diplomatic practitioners. There...

For a capital city so frequently derided as “broken” by acrimonious partisanship and special interests, life in Washington, DC, has never been better for the political class. Or so...

The American political experiment runs on hope, but American politics hasn’t had a lot of that lately. That’s why what’s been happening in American cities and metropolitan areas is...

At the turn of the 20th century, French colonial authorities in Vietnam detected bubonic plague in Hanoi. Local administrators had long wrestled with the city’s burgeoning rat population, and...

Examining election results across the country in the past decade, one could certainly get an impression that Canada is becoming a more conservative country. Stephen Harper has now seen...

Being opposed to nuclear power was almost a founding principle for card-carrying liberals of the baby boom generation. The movement’s politics were rooted in the post-Hiroshima Cold War alarm...

In 1966, prospects for Churchill, Manitoba, did not look good. The backwater port town on the west coast of Hudson Bay had been in steady decline since the military...

In the early months of the first George W. Bush administration, when I worked intensively on energy and climate change issues at the US Embassy in Ottawa, our team...

In June of this year, a massive rainstorm hammered the vast limestone basins of the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The dynamic combination of warm rainfall and last...

Humans have always sought to reshape nature to meet their needs. Beginning with the control of fire and the domestication of plants and animals through to massive water diversion...

Any ecology student could tell you what biomes are: vegetation types, such as grasslands and tropical rainforests, that ecologists use to map the planet. But there’s a problem. Biomes...

Humans have been altering the earth’s ecosystems for thousands of years, but it is only in the last few generations that the impact has become so profound that some...

Science and popular culture have long mixed in unique and productive ways. Cutting-edge science has inspired great novels, movies, music and art. But as science becomes a larger part...

En 1992, le gouvernement de centre droit de Carl Bildt, en Suède, faisait face à une crise bancaire majeure. À la suite d’une vague de déréglementation, les institutions financières...

The Senate has few friends left. It has had to struggle for legitimacy almost from birth, and the body blows it has absorbed from the scandals over the past several...

At its extremes, income inequality can appear staggering. In the United States where the issue has become a political flashpoint, Fortune 500 CEOs routinely make about 300 times the...

Economists study how markets, consumers and businesses behave, but they rarely turn the focus inward to study their own behaviour. We did. And our research reveals that economists at...

Look at images of earth from space — or from, say, the 54th floor observation deck of the Mori Tower in Tokyo at night — and the extent of...