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Indigenous leaders step-up, but where is the applause from environmentalists? Chris Sankey for Inside Policy

The agreement reached by the First Nations Climate Initiative table and the First Nations Major Projects Coalition should change the way Canadians understand...

 

February 19, 2021 at 5:00 pm read more

Facebook’s Australian battle is a dire warning about the future of the internet: Matthew Lesh in CapX

Facebook’s decision to stop publishing news links in Australia is dominating politics Down Under today. But it’s implications are much broader, writes Matthew...

 

February 18, 2021 at 7:48 pm read more

COVID-19 research in Canada reveals Ottawa’s unwillingness to collaborate: Nigel Rawson and John Adams for Inside Policy

Canadian governments, at all levels, must take responsibility for their inept procurement and distribution processes in their health systems, write Nigel Rawson and...

 

February 17, 2021 at 10:41 pm read more

Looking at Sir John A. Macdonald Through Cracked Lenses: Patrice Dutil for Inside Policy

Citizens who decry the casual dismissal of Canada’s first prime minister are the ones who genuinely value Canadian history, writes Patrice Dutil. By...

 

February 16, 2021 at 3:59 pm read more

Revenge of the Normies – is it time to take back control from the cognitive elite? Helen Dale in CapX

At bottom, Head Hand Heart is a profound and often moving argument that we should not be in the business of rewarding people materially or...

 

February 11, 2021 at 4:41 pm read more

How did Biden's first year turn into a foreign policy disaster? A "pre-mortem" by Balkan Devlen

Keeping an eye on these challenges and how the Biden administration deals with them will tell us a lot whether the year will...

 

January 27, 2021 at 9:59 pm read more

Four years on, the Latvia mission is Canada’s quiet success: Alexandra Richards, Christian Leuprecht, Alexander Moens and Alexander Lanoszka for Inside Policy

A more informed understanding by the public is necessary to ensure our domestic bipartisan political consensus underpins the Latvia mission, write Alexandra Richards,...

 

January 26, 2021 at 8:48 pm read more

From Xi with love - A New Year greeting to the new POTUS: Samir Saran in the ORF

As a new American President prepares to assume office, China has sent him a greeting card with three messages conveying the terms of...

 

January 13, 2021 at 5:25 pm read more

When will the United Nations wake up to China’s human rights nightmare? Dean Baxendale for Inside Policy

When a government continually subverts the very human rights treaty they signed onto, there must be swift and unified action to hold them...

 

January 6, 2021 at 9:32 pm read more

How to Avoid Failure in Building Societal Resilience Against Disinformation and Subversion: Policy Brief by Balkan Devlen

Building resilience is an ongoing process that requires a whole-of-society approach. It also starts by putting our house in order to make it...

 

December 23, 2020 at 5:11 pm read more
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