On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
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May 8, 2006
“Never apologize, never explain” — so goes the adage attributed to, among others, Talleyrand, Benjamin Jowett, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Fisher, Evelyn Waugh, and (in a slight variation) John Wayne (Gleason 2003; Lazare 2004, pp. 255–6).
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May 8, 2006
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a curious institution. It effectively originated as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a set of trading rules created in 1947 to accompany multilateral tariff-reduction negotiations held in 1948.
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May 1, 2006
Prior to this, children of migrants born in Germany maintained their parents’ nationality and thus were officially classified as foreigners, according to the 1913 Reichs-und Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz. The 1913 citizenship law’s elevation of the principle of descent (jus sanguinis) was meant to maintain bonds of citizenship with Germans who had emigrated abroad, while ensuring that foreign migrants and their children remained outside the German body politic, despite long-term residence and, in the case of the second and third generations, birth and socialization in Germany.
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April 13, 2006
M O N I T O R H I G H L I G H T S Possession is Nine-tenths of the Problem, page 3/ Kosovo: Poised for Statehood by Robert C. Austin, page 7/Our Cities, Our Future by Enid...
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January 6, 2006
This discussion paper compares and contrasts two epistemological approaches to the analysis of self-report data in the health sciences. I consider these approaches within the context of my own research that relies on data derived from in-depth qualitative interviews on gay men’s health.
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January 1, 2006
This discussion paper compares and contrasts two epistemological approaches to the analysis of self-report data in the health sciences.
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November 25, 2005
The goal of this briefing is to provide a general overview of the current negotiations of the World Trade Organization and some suggestions for moving them forward.
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November 25, 2005
After more than a century, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to have profound and frightening consequences. The wounds of violence and injustice are deep. The occupation challenges the collective dignity of Palestinians and creates a humanitarian tragedy. Israelis suffer from widespread terror attacks that create massive insecurity and reinforce a firm belief that tough security measures are a sine qua non for survival, and that a Jewish state will never truly be accepted in the Middle East.
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November 6, 2005
I will begin with a brief overview of the legacy of the Uruguay Round, the major determinant of the ambience of the global trading system.
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September 30, 2005
A few years ago, it seemed that the world within and beyond the university was becoming more open, a place where our students, future leaders, would naturally develop deep knowledge of people not necessarily like themselves. 9-11 triggered an understandable if regrettable movement in the opposite direction. The pendulum seems now to be swinging back, but the evidence at this point is decidedly mixed. Fear and trauma do strange things to the mind, and the collective mind of the United States — and of its key allies — is perhaps only now beginning to recover.
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