Canada’s retreat from nuclear disarmament
Canada once led the fight for a world without nukes. What happened?
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Nature Medicine: Biomedical research during the COVID lockdown
Government-funded medical research bodies in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia say they are committed to maintaining funding continuity for biomedical research. So far, only in Canada has a major …
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Corporate Canada’s Indigenous Agonies – SABEW 2020 Business Awards Honourable Mention
The Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine, March 2019
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Should Canada focus on Global Antimicrobial Resistance?
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s new global health research guru wants Ottawa to put antimicrobial resistance on its list of foreign-aid research priorities. 2016-cmaj-nov-28-2016-should-canada-focus-on-antimicrobial-resistance
Globe & Mail: To sell Saudi Arabia weapons, Canada bypasses U.S. law
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/the-inside-story-of-canadas-15-billion-saudi-armsdeal/article29761861/
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Using military resources to fight disease
In a sign that international concern about infectious diseases is attracting attention in military circles, the United States government has launched the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a multinational effort …
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Colombia is Canada’s new best friend
While most of the banking community back in Canada continues to fight over a mature domestic market and obsess over halting progress in the United States, Scotia has been busily …