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• The Rise and Fall of Arms Control?

  By loprespub on December 16, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 5 minutes(Disponible en français : Contrôle des armements : après l’essor, le déclin?) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, superpower tensions began to fade. As a result, it became possible to negotiate complex agreements on conventional arms and weapons of… Read More ›

• Corruption: Defining, Measuring and Addressing

  By loprespub on December 9, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 5 minutes(Disponible en français : La corruption : la définir, la mesurer et y faire échec) International Anti-Corruption Day occurs on 9 December annually, bringing awareness to the global issue of corruption. Because government spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic may… Read More ›

• Executive Summary – Distribution of Federal Revenues and Expenditures by Province

  By loprespub on November 19, 2020

  

  Reading Time: < 1 minute(Disponible en français : Résumé – La répartition des revenus et des dépenses du gouvernement fédéral par province) The federal government collects revenues and makes expenditures in all provinces. Per capita federal revenues and spending vary from province to province, depending… Read More ›

• The Impact of the Helms-Burton Act on Canadian Companies Operating in Cuba

  By loprespub on November 2, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 5 minutes(Disponible en français : Les répercussions de la loi Helms‑Burton sur les entreprises canadiennes qui font des affaires à Cuba) On 11 July 1996, the United States (U.S.) Department of State informed Sherritt International Corporation, a Toronto-based company with significant… Read More ›

• The official languages regulatory framework: reviewed and amended

  By loprespub on October 13, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 6 minutesRevised on 21 December 2020, 10:05 a.m. Any substantive changes in this HillNote that have been made since the preceding issue are indicated in bold print. (Disponible en français : Le cadre réglementaire pour les langues officielles, revu et corrigé)  Chronology… Read More ›

• Executive Summary – Organic Agriculture in Canada

  By loprespub on October 1, 2020

  

  Reading Time: < 1 minute(Disponible en français : Résumé – L’agriculture biologique au Canada) In 2017, organic agriculture in Canada was a C$5.4 billion market. This model of agriculture emerged out of a collection of schools of thought and agrarian movements that opposed the industrialization of agriculture… Read More ›

• The United Nations at 75: “Imperfect but indispensable”?

  By loprespub on September 22, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 5 minutes(Disponible en français : Les Nations Unies, 75 ans plus tard : « imparfaites, mais indispensables »?) At a 21 September 2020 high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the United Nations’ (UN’s) member states adopted a declaration… Read More ›

• Executive Summary – Indigenous People and Sentencing in Canada

  By loprespub on September 17, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 3 minutes(Disponible en français : Résumé – Les peuples autochtones et la détermination de la peine au Canada) Indigenous people are incarcerated at a much higher rate than non-Indigenous individuals in Canada, and the gap between the incarceration rates for these… Read More ›

• Ensuring access to quality education for students enrolled in minority language schools

  By loprespub on September 17, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 5 minutes(Disponible en français : Assurer l’accès à une éducation de qualité aux élèves inscrits dans les écoles de la minorité) The constitutional right to an education in one’s own language Under section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and… Read More ›

• Marine Pilotage in Canada: En Route to Modernizing the Pilotage Act

  By loprespub on September 3, 2020

  

  Reading Time: 7 minutes(Disponible en français : Le pilotage maritime au Canada : en route vers la modernisation de la Loi sur le pilotage) In May 2017, Transport Canada launched its Pilotage Act Review, which resulted in the publication of a final report… Read More ›