August 20, 2015
When it comes to the effects of marijuana use, the public discourse is full of conflicting evidence. Nazlee Maghsoudi, a recent graduate of the Master of Global Affairs program, has co-authored a report with the International Centre for Science in...
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August 18, 2015
The digital economy is critical to Canada’s future prosperity, but the country needs a plan in order to take advantage of growth opportunities. David Wolfe, co-director of the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab, is leading a new project that aims...
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July 31, 2015
The first issue of Global Summitry: Politics, Economics and Law in International Governance has been published by Oxford University Press. The publication, which ultimately will appear quarterly, is edited by Alan Alexandroff, Director of the Global Summitry Project at the...
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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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