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The Canada Science & Policy Committee to Exit the Pandemic was ...
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Canada will exit the Covid-19 pandemic this year – and soon. However, the exit can only be effectuated by uniting ...
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THE SECOND ANNUAL “STATE & FUTURE OF ...
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“AFTER THE PANDEMIC – THE STATE AND FUTURE OF CANADA
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Calling ALL of Canada’s young athletes (ages 4-25), students, teams, clubs, musicians, writers, artists and poets – in all regions ...
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The improvised closure of hundreds of thousands of schools around the world during the Covid-19 pandemic led quickly and brutally ...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has had multiple devastating consequences for countries, systems and processes around the world. I have written about ...
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A 21CQ/GB GLOBAL COVID-19 VACCINE SUMMIT – AND THE STATE & FUTURE OF SCIENCE, POST-PANDEMIC
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
A Global Conference (Virtual) ...
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In my first blog on the first five of 10 consequences of the pandemic, I wrote of the sudden ...
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All happy countries are happy in similar ways. All unhappy countries are unhappy in different ways.
As Canada exits its great ...
It was the strangest of modern times. Tout court.
Consequence 1 – The Rapid Destitching of Global Order
The COVID-19 pandemic marks ...
On July 26th, 21CQ, in partnership with the Government of the Northwest Territories, hosted an historic national (half-day) mini-conference on ...
21CQ is manifestly interested in renovating last-century international institutions and, wherever necessary, divining and proposing “new” institutions and mechanisms for ...
Granted, the lion’s share of 21CQ’s projects and activities concern international and global questions and problems. These projects, from the ...
A recent article of mine in the Toronto Star created quite a buzz. The article, entitled “The Case for ...
In this first part of 2018, there remain, as I argued in a post in 2017, three principal theatres of ...
Modern states last an average of about 60 years. After that, they collapse or transform fundamentally, through war, revolution or ...
Thesis 1: The future of Russian governance is neither necessarily democratic nor strictly non-democratic. This choice is likely too binary ...
Aside from Global Brief magazine, international conferences, and our various public interventions in media and fora in different countries, much ...
Why the means are more important than the ends, and how to build a national strategic psychology
In an earlier blog, I noted that there are three major conflicts or ‘conflict plates’ in the ...
In late April of next year (final dates coming shortly), 21CQ and GB, in partnership with ...
What is the Aboriginal question? On the one hand, it is about how to lift Canada’s indigenous people from the ...
In the context of 21CQ’s/GB’s recent event in Washington, DC, hosted by the Wilson Center and its ...
No non-governmental group in the world has done more to actively advance and advise on solutions to the eminently soluble ...
In my last blog post, I discussed “100 Million as Metaphor,” arguing that the Canadian at 100 ...
Since I wrote “Canada – Population 100 Million” in 2010 in Global Brief, a real national debate ...
Further to the points I first laid out in Le Monde in September, and in the Fall/Winter 2015 issue ...
On November 14th and 15th, in Toronto, we’ll be hosting the launch conference for the Institute for 21st Century Questions ...
Welcome to the Institute for 21st Century Questions, or 21CQ. Sam and I are in some sense ...
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