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...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 C »D A Macho America, Diffident Canada To visit Canada in late spring 2003 is to enter a county bewildered and baffled by its big macho neighbor to the south, to which Canada is normally as invisible...

... accused the government agency Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) of sex-based discrimination? Lynn Gehl: INAC has a long history of discriminating against Indigenous women who marry white men. Women lost their Indian status registration upon marriage, whereas Indigenous men who married white...

...Daniella Zalcman Photographer Daniella Zalcman documents survivors of Canada’s attempt to eradicate Indigenous culture through a network of church run schools. Zalcman finds that a year after the release of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, the Canadian government has implemented few...

... on targets where there was substantial suspicion. All such measures will likely prove feasible and effective, even necessary, in significantly reducing the flows of Canada’s domestic Internet traffic that transits the United States and is hence exposed to NSA surveillance. Of course, these policy measures...

... In countries around the world, minorities are disproportionately represented in incarcerated populations. World Policy Journal charts the demographics of the general population against the imprisoned population in the U.S., South Africa, England and Wales, Canada, Brazil, and Australia and reveals...

... World Policy Journal asked experts from Canada, Kenya, Australia, and Chile how colonialism impedes justice for indigenous peoples. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 criminal justice colonialism criminal justice Compiled by Natasha Bluth and Connie E...

.... But in their conversation with each other, it become sclear that they face many of the same challenges in overcoming their countries’ naïvenarratives on race. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 black lives matter racism Brazil Canada organizing RICHARD HAHN RICHARD HAHN Janaya Khan...

... member states, which mistakenly worried that recognizing self-determination could lead to secession. In 1989, the government of Canada issued a statement arguing that the proposal was unacceptable on the grounds that “self-determination under international law can imply the absolute right to determine...

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.... The Canadian banking system has proven resilient throughout the financial crisis and received international praise, with 81 percent of Canadians holding a favorable impression of banks in Canada, an increase from 59 percent in 2001. In 2013, the World Economic Forum ranked Canadian banks as the world’s...

... a participatory multidisciplinary approach with technical groups from public and private sectors to guide policy development. In Canada, there’s no question of food supply. Canada has considerable land and water for farming, plentiful oceans and lakes for fishing, and immense forests and fields...

... folks from everyone else that, suddenly, it’s better than the States.” “Racism,” Khan explains, “just manifests itself differently.” Khan blames the myth of Canada as a racial haven in part on the politics of multiculturalism. They, as Khan prefers to be referred to, says that while...

... for Vancouver-based Canada Without Poverty. Pedro Conceicao is chief economist for the United Nations Development Program’s Regional Bureau for Africa. Irene Mandl is a research manager at the Employment and Change Unit of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions...

... from working on our own terms. The “Nordic model,” which Canada has adopted, is incorrectly framed as an alternative to criminalization. Rather than decriminalizing sex work, the Nordic Model infantilizes and patronizes sex workers by framing them as victims, while shifting the illegality from...

... found along the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest territories in Canada, and the East Siberian and Laptev seas in Russia. The 400 feet of erosion over a decade in the Brownlow Point area along the Beaufort Sea coast no longer seems implausible given that the maximum rate could...

..., free and The American Empire? Not So Fast 43 independent empire,” populated by white As for Canada, John Quincy Adams held Americans “unconnected with us but by the “our proper domain to be the continent of ties of blood and interest.” Daniel...

... hundred forty three countries voted to approve. Though Australia ended up ratifying the declaration two years later, it joined Canada, New Zealand, and the United States in voting against it at the time. Their vote hardly came as a surprise. The relationship of these countries with their own native people...

... in sexual assault reported. CANADA NAK’AZDLI AND TL’AZT’EN FIRST FORT ST. JAMES, BRITISH COLUMBIA BRITISH JAMES, ST. FORT...

... intergenerational solidarity, future generations are more likely to suffer than current ones. For over a decade now, Inuits from Canada have been openly warning those of us who live far from the North that the climate is undergoing dramatic change. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian Inuit leader and outspoken...