Mission: poverty eradication.
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Scotland is the latest place to look at piloting the concept.
From Norway with love.
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An object lesson in seasonal geopolitics.
Swartberg House in the Karoo, designed by Jennifer Beningfield, Open Studio.
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Buildings, thinkers, books, films and works of art can ask central questions about how to live on this planet and its consequences.
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The way that the EU dealt with its CETA trade deal with Canada makes it clear to Britain that negotiating a free trade agreement will be very long and difficult.
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The CETA crisis will be resolved before long but the lessons of Wallonia point to a bigger European crisis.
Should Australia do a ‘Justin Trudeau’ on climate policy?
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has decided to leave climate policy to the provinces, while forcing them to act.
Some changes to visa rules could make travel easier for scientists.
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Scientists from the developing world perceive current visa rules as a major impediment to professional travel. They miss out on opportunities to collaborate globally.
US President Barack Obama welcomes news the Paris Agreement will come into force from November 4.
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The Paris Agreement will come into force on November 4. Will Australia be part of the pack?
The Tent Embassy in Canberra has for decades been symbolic of the tensions in Australian cities about recognition, reconciliation and land justice.
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Imagine if we did urban development in a way that honours Indigenous histories, knowledge and relationships with those places.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met by Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
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The royal visit to Canada raises some important constitutional questions.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has some tips for Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
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Boosting growth could be as simple as getting more women into the workforce.
Can and should Australia be doing more to resettle refugees?
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Should Australia stick with its current model of state-controlled refugee resettlement schemes? Or are there other models we can learn from?
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Canada has been in the global doldrums for close to two decades, but now it’s got a chance to get back in the game.
Arctic migrants such as this Sanderling face an uncertain future.
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For birds migrating to the top of the world, the warming climate could severely contract the available space they have to breed.
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Norway, Switzerland, Canada and a WTO-only trade relationship are are the obvious options for the UK post-Brexit.
Protest sign at the Muskrat Falls site, June 12.
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The ‘Muskrat Falls’ hydroelectric project is being built in anticipation of the Innu voting away ownership of their own land.
Calm down now.
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Without much fuss, Canada voted to make its anthem gender neutral – but other countries don’t have it so easy.
Students with disabilities face massive physical and attitudinal hurdles.
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Students with disabilities find that they must accommodate themselves to institutional contexts which they find profoundly disabling.
The UK has limits on expenditure by political parties and third parties, and doesn’t allow paid advertising in electronic media at all.
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Unlike similar democracies, Australia neither limits political donations nor campaign expenditure by political parties at the federal level.
The Australian dairy industry could consider a regulation model like that in Canada.
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Government intervention in the crisis facing Australian dairy has opened the gates for suggestions of other types of regulation.