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Africa’s economic development depends on improved nutrition

Strive Masiyiwa | 01/22/2015
Africa’s economic development depends on improved nutrition

The deficits created by childhood malnutrition can permanently suppress a person's long-term earnings potential.

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OPINION
Greece's radical rise
Gwynne Dyer | 01/22/2015

Greece's Coalition of the Radical Left is an ideological grab-bag of democratic socialists, Eurocommunists, Greens, Maoists, Trotskyists and assorted populists, but in Alexis Tsipras it has a young charismatic leader.

The humanitarian impact on the nuclear weapons treaty
Paul Meyer | 01/21/2015

The five nuclear weapon states have been less than enthusiastic about the humanitarian initiative.

Canada's international education strategy one year later
Karen McBride | 01/21/2015

Some great achievements are balanced out by work still to be done.

Saudi arms deal makes mockery of Canadian values
Peggy Mason | 01/21/2015

The Harper government has generally been shockingly silent over the manifold Saudi misdeeds.

Look further afield for Canadian policing lessons
Pascal Desbiens | 01/19/2015

A new report includes both instructive content and significant shortfalls. The authors should have looked more to what the UN and other international groups are doing on security-sector reform.

Pay as you go
Alena Schram | 01/16/2015

An excerpt of Alena Schram's new book, The Opinionated Old Cow: Ruminations from the Field. One of many tales of a diplomatic spouse.

Three months a year
Gwynne Dyer | 01/15/2015

Everybody assumes that lifespan grew much faster in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it has actually plodded along at the same rate.

2015: Setting a new global development agenda
Stuart Clark | 01/14/2015

Countries will spend the next nine months hashing out a successor to the Millennium Development Goals.

Boat people bill honours a great humanitarian event
Thanh Hai Ngo | 01/14/2015

The Canadian experience shows that wounds aren’t healed by being ignored.

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COLUMNISTS
Gwynne Dyer
Greece's radical rise
01/22/2015

Greece's Coalition of the Radical Left is an ideological grab-bag of democratic socialists, Eurocommunists, Greens, Maoists, Trotskyists and assorted populists, but in Alexis Tsipras it has a young charismatic leader.

Jim Creskey
Canada's refugee services: Victim of a hostile takeover
12/17/2014

Looking back over 2014 it is encouraging to see that many Canadians have stayed true to Canada’s reputation of generosity for refugees, despite discouraging signals from our political leaders.

Scott Taylor
Startled by an ant
01/21/2015

Why is it that, more than 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, we seem more frightened now by far smaller threats?

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