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Chartered Fight

When provinces and the bench butt heads

In Little Jamaica

Stories from a changing neighbourhood

The Devil Is in the Details

Canada’s legalization of marijuana raises a host of policy and health questions

Fen Osler Hampson

Fen Osler Hampson is the Chancellor’s Professor and director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

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Unsung Hero

A gifted diplomat and teacher gets his due September 2009
I have always thought of the late John Wendell Homes, a distinguished Canadian diplomat turned scholar and teacher, as Canada’s equivalent to the late George Kennan, a U.S. diplomat and scholar who was the author of the doctrine of containment, which charted a course for the United States on how to deal with the former Soviet Union during the early days of the Cold…

Peace in Our Time?

Despite the headlines, the world has become a less violent place May 2006
More roadside bombings in Iraq as communitarian violence escalates. Terrorist attacks in Madrid and London. A Canadian diplomat killed by a terrorist attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, followed by more attacks on Canadian soldiers. Reports of massive human rights abuses and killings in Darfur. A floundering peace process in Israel-Palestine. There is so much bad news about the state of the world…