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Healthcare
NYT Special Section on Health “Why We Care” paints intimate portraits of why global leaders support access to reproductive health To coincide with London Summit on Family Planning, Aspen global health...
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Forests and Deforestation
Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’ A new report by the Chatham House finds that illegal logging in tropical forest nation is primarily on the decline, providing evidence...
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Terrorism
Critical opinion of Islam ignores the fundamental truths On Terrorists, Canada and Montreal– Beryl Wajsman (selection of clips) How Terrorist Groups End How do terrorist groups end? The evidence since...
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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Genetically modified oilseed rape, one of the four main commercial GM crops. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Background: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; SciDevnet GM crops and Agriculture...
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Airline industry 2012 – 2013
IATA Airport World online (Montreal Economic Institute/ November 2006) HOW TO MAKE THE CANADIAN AIRLINE INDUSTRY MORE COMPETITIVE : The airline industry has gone through plenty of turbulence over the...
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As promised, our good friends, former US diplomats, authors and keen Canada watchers David and Terry Jones will be with us this Wednesday Night for their annual fact-finding mission. Earlier, from 5:30...
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UN was headed to Philadelphia, but a Rockefeller stepped in The book “Capital of the World” chronicles the search for a home for the United Nations headquarters after World War II and the nearly 250...
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Cities and sustainability
Why Crowley has it wrong on cars, freedom, and public transit (Broadbent Institute) In Wednesday’s Globe and Mail, Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute produced what he called a “homage...
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After last week’s intense focus on Canada and the US, what an assortment of news items and issues confronts us this week, with no particular common thread, although there are some themes. Let us take...
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E is for Espionage
See also M.S. Arctic Sea; The crypto machines of the NSA museum (photos) Remarks by Jim Judd, Director of CSIS, at the Global Futures Forum Conference in Vancouver – April 2008 John le Carré: The...
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U.S.: Environment & energy
Climate change on Wednesday-Night.com Andrew Revkin Dot Earth blog Natural Gas Forum Pros and Cons of Marcellus Shale Gas Development “Gasland” on PBS NOW talks with filmmaker Josh Fox about “Gasland”,...
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Alternate (clean) energy/renewables
Alternative energy news February 2010 The Pew Center on Global Climate Change: Clean Energy Markets: Jobs and Opportunities North American Environmental Commission Promoting Green Jobs with Renewable...
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Nuclear energy 2011-2013
International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) Nuclear Energy Institute World Nuclear Association SciDevNet Climate Change & Energy: Nuclear power after Fukushima Japan may restart reactors in a year;...
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WTO
WTO News on Wednesday-night.com WTO Annual Report 2012 (.pdf) The WTO Annual Report 2012 provides a brief summary of the organization, an overview of 2011 and a detailed review of the WTO’s main areas...
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Water
More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com Thirst a powerful slide show on water ; Stockholm International Water Institute ; Nanotechnology for clean water ; (IPS files) Troubled Waters ; Economist...
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Jim Mylonas has returned from holidays and BCA promptly published the July 2013 Geopolitical Strategy report which focuses on Emerging Markets (their decade is over); the influence of geopolitics on...
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Arctic Exploitation
Who Owns the Arctic? A Stocktaking of Territorial Disputes (NYT) The Arctic Council agreed on Wednesday to expand to include six new nations, including China, as observer states, as a changing climate...
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Japan 2013
Analysis: Dr John Swenson-Wright ,Chatham House In foreign policy, Japan’s immediate neighbours, most notably South Korea and China, worry that the prime minister may be planning to pursue an...
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We are delighted that Kimon Valaskakis has returned to Montreal – and Wednesday Night – and look forward to his progress report on the forthcoming NSoA conference. Many will recall that Kimon has...
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U.S.: Environment & energy
Climate change on Wednesday-Night.com Andrew Revkin Dot Earth blog Natural Gas Forum Pros and Cons of Marcellus Shale Gas Development “Gasland” on PBS NOW talks with filmmaker Josh Fox about “Gasland”,...
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