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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Jeremy Paltiel

Jeremy Paltiel is a professor of political science at Carleton University. His most recent book is The Empire’s New Clothes: Cultural Particularism and Universal Value in China’s Quest for Global Status (Palgrave, 2007).

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Spiritual Dissent

Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party and their apocalyptic struggle for China November 2008
Thirty years after the onset of the reform and opening policies that have made China the most rapidly rising economic power in the history of the world, Falun Gong is arguably the most visible face of dissent with the Chinese Communist Party commonly encountered outside China. Yet despite its prominence it remains poorly understood, even among well-informed members of the…