July 25, 2015
Brazil’s Bolsa Familia (BF) program sends nearly 12 million low-income households a regular cash payment to supplement their earnings.What makes the BF program stand out from others like it is its extraordinary record of finding and reaching the families who...
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July 24, 2015
Molly Thomas, a student in the Master of Global Affairs program, recently completed this documentary, Trapped in Iraq, for Context, a documentary news program. The video is 26 minutes long and there is a viewer discretion warning because of disturbing...
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July 2, 2015
Munk School Director Stephen Toope has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada. The latest list of inductees to the order was released by the Governor General’s office on Canada Day, July 1.
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June 15, 2015
June 15th marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. From property rights to women’s rights, the rule of law, equality before the law and defined roles for judges: all roads, it seems, lead us back to Magna Carta Libertatum....
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June 11, 2015
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-09/breaking-beijing
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June 10, 2015
Dan Breznitz is the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies and his opinion piece was published June 9 in The Globe and Mail. An excerpt: We discovered that China was investing significant amount of resources in making its voice heard amid...
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June 10, 2015
The 38th annual National Magazine Awards, held June 5 in Toronto, gave an “Honourable Mention for Investigative Journalism” to Michael Kempa (FGJ 2013) for a Walrus piece he started during a Munk Global Journalism Fellowship. The investigation and subsequent article...
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https://www.asiapacific.ca/canada-asia-agenda/chinas-regime-stability-sustaining-or-collapsing
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June 1, 2015
Groundwater is Canada’s hidden natural resource. Its importance to our environment, health and economy is neither understood nor appreciated. In May, the Program on Water Issues (POWI) fostered a dialogue on Canada’s groundwater management through a symposium called Security Underground: Financing...
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May 28, 2015
The motion: that Obama’s Iran Deal is Good for America. Mark Dubowitz argued against the motion – and won. Intelligence Squared has hosted more than 100 debates since 2006 on a wide range of provocative and timely topics. Based in...
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