Nov. 24th, Part 1 of 2: Finance, Climate Risk, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly

Two-part series: 1 )The crucial importance of shifting finance to address the climate crisis, on November 24th and 2) How to engage those managing your retirement, on December 1st.

Featuring: Adam Scott, Director, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health Continue Reading Nov. 24th, Part 1 of 2: Finance, Climate Risk, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly

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Dec. 1st, Part 2 of 2: Finance, Climate Risk, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly

Two-part series: 1 )The crucial importance of shifting finance to address the climate crisis, on November 24th and 2) How to engage those managing your retirement, on December 1st.

Featuring: Adam Scott, Director, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health Continue Reading Dec. 1st, Part 2 of 2: Finance, Climate Risk, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly

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Why hasn’t Canada signed the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty?

Join a webinar on the need for Canada to sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty, featuring Liberal MP Hedy Fry, NDP MP Heather McPherson, Green Party MP Elizabeth May, Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe as well as Setsuko Thurlow, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Continue Reading Why hasn’t Canada signed the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty?

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WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS AND FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA

The Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA) invites you all to a virtual panel discussion moderated by Chris Huggins, University of Ottawa featuring:

Agnes Apusigah, Regentroopfen College, Ghana
Ama Appiah-Acheampong, Ghana Irrigation Development Agency, Ghana
Bayush Tsegaye, Freelance Consultant, Ethiopia Mamy Rakotondrainibe, Collective for the Defence of Madagasy Land-TANY, Madagascar Continue Reading WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS AND FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA

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2020 Policy Forum – September 24-October 4, 2020 Recordings

Our 2020 Policy Forum, The Future of Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World: Why UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded, videos are available for viewing. Given the impending American election and its potentially dramatic foreign policy implications, we are now planning our Conclusions and Recommendations webinar for early to mid-November. Please… Continue Reading 2020 Policy Forum – September 24-October 4, 2020 Recordings

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2020 Policy Forum – The Future of Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World: Why UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded

Given the impending American election and its potentially dramatic foreign policy implications, we are now planning our Conclusions and Recommendations webinar for early to mid-November. Please stay tuned as it will be worth the wait! Continue Reading 2020 Policy Forum – The Future of Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World: Why UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded

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Letter to PM urging support for developing countries in the current economic and health crises

Letter to PM urging support for developing countries in the current economic and health crises, Pdf The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Dear Prime Minister, On behalf of the Group of 78, I am writing to commend you for your current initiative at the UN to tackle the… Continue Reading Letter to PM urging support for developing countries in the current economic and health crises

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Panel Discussion: Canada’s bid for UN Security Council

Read about, and register for, a lively and timely panel discussion, two days before the UN vote takes place, on Canada’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council for a two-year period beginning in 2021. Continue Reading Panel Discussion: Canada’s bid for UN Security Council

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Financial crisis and the pandemic: is it time for international money?

Hill Times By ROY CULPEPER, LAURA MACDONALD, AND SAM VAN OORT      MAY 15, 2020 The pandemic and its economic repercussions promise to be with us for some time. Canada should support a new issuance of SDRs as the case in favour of using them to assist the poorest countries strengthens over the next year. In March, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director… Continue Reading Financial crisis and the pandemic: is it time for international money?

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August 25, 2020, Webinar – Why the ‘Trump era’ could last for thirty years

It is likely that even a one-term Trump will go down in history as a president who (more than Obama, Bush, Clinton) symbolized a “new era” in the history of the West. The new era will last for a few decades, as the “social democratic era” lasted for three decades (1945-1975) and the “neoliberal era “ lasted for three plus decades (1980 to 2010+). It is marked by a shift in the center of gravity of western politics/policies in the direction of (1) authoritarian-nationalism and exclusionary identity politics; (2) illiberal internationalism — including less commitment to free international trade and free international capital movements, and less support for legacy multilateral organizations, like those of the UN. Continue Reading August 25, 2020, Webinar – Why the ‘Trump era’ could last for thirty years

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