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... a leading independent, economic and social policy research institution. The Institute promotes sound...The financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 has moved the importance of proper clearing arranggements for financial trades from the obscurity of back offices into the limeli...
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Happiness is defined by Veenhoven (2008) as "the overall appreciation of one 's life-as-a-whole, in short, how much one likes the life one lives" (p. 2, itaUcs in original). Seligman's (2002) work on authentic happiness focuses on an enduring experience of happiness. Sustainable happiness is relevant to essentially every definition of happiness. As a demonstration, consider the momentary pleasure of drinking a cup of coffee. Benefits of attending to and being mindful of the experience have been discussed by Brown and Kasser (2005) and Kabat-Zinn (2005). Viewed through the lens of sustainable happiness, this momentary pleasure can be placed in a wider context. Individuals can attend to whether that cup of coffee is fair trade coffee, which means that workers in the coffee plantation have...
....1 While progress has been made, shifts in policy and practice are far short of the transition requi...
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... representations constituted government policy immune from judicial review - Whether facts as ple...2004, c. 2, and the Trade Practice Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 457. The appeal co...797 (1984); Design Services Ltd. v. Canada, 2008 SCC 22, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 737; Day v. Central Okanag...
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.... In October 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada and Presi... entry of business persons, competition policy, labour, and the environment. (6) The results of t...
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... to national security interests (Atland 2008, 290). . However, by the end of the 1980s Mikhail ... introduced the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, his foreign policy discourses and actio...
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... enacted in the Budget Implementation Act, 2008;. (d) introduces minor adjustments to the Tax-Free... the support and development of domestic trade and business opportunities for a period of two yea... the purpose of paragraph 20(7)(c)) as a policy reserve for its base year in respect of its insura...
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...The Canadian government's 2010 policy document Statement on Canada's Arctic Foreign Poli... currently (United States Geological Survey 2008, 1). Canada stands to benefit economically from oi... of foreign affairs and international trade (Cohen 2003). Proactive and engaged participation ...
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... at intervals between November 2005 and mid-2008 have reinforced these observations. . Security rel... formal and informal systems of alliances; trade-commercial, focusing on the economic dimensions of...
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... and how does this identity connect with policy? Canada's identity or sense of "self" at home and ... Grant 1989; West 1991; Gittings 1998; Arnold 2008). As part of the North, the Arctic's place in Cana... of Foreign Affairs and International Trade [DFAIT] 2005). The government has also devoted fun...
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... classifies prime ministers" answers by policy area and controls for the number of responses that... affairs, including defence, international trade, Afghanistan, and terrorism; 4) social policy, inc... as Prime Minister, Toronto: Vintage Canada (2008), p. 106. . (9.) Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The ...