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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

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