The Harper government claims that it is keen to develop a strong policy towards Latin America. Yet it is a flawed approach, supporting US policy at a time when it is at its lowest point in decades, while ignoring both a clear leftward swing of elected Latin American governments in the last five years and the significant importance of Cuba in the region. This paper examines the Harper government's approach to Cuba. Following some general comments on the evolution of Canadian policy towards revolutionary Cuba, it examines some of the errors in the Harper approach, suggests an explanation for the approach employed, and makes suggestions about policies that Ottawa should consider to improve relations. In sports terms, Cuba "punches above its weight"-a fact which is known widely in Latin Ame...
..., particularly in the areas of the Isle of Youth and the Province of Pinar del Rio. The devastation... Raúl Castro to the Latin American summit in Brazil in December 2008 was particularly signif...
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...
... gathered in Rio de Janeiro at the Earth Summit, the first United Nations (UN) conference that com....1 While progress has been made, shifts in policy and practice are far short of the transition requi... Research Institute (CFLRI; 2006) asked youth to rate their quatity of life and compared this to...
... of restorative justice perhaps reached its summit when both the federal government and the RCMP outw... discursive history of present-day RCMP policy and practice on restorative justice in Canada. . T... and promoted alternative programs for youth to help reduce the stigmatization of conventional ...
..., PhD) * Geography and Aviation * Tourism Policy (BES) and Planning (MES) University of Western * E...UW now has the new Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment for numerous field cour... of forests similar interests the Sierra Youth and wood products - about the environment Coalitio...
Such expressions as "weak" or "fragile" states are absent from Brazil's President Lula da Silva's domestic and diplomatic rhetoric. Instead, according to official statements of Lula's government, lawlessness, insurgency, transnational crime and terrorism, which are widely linked to state failure, are blamed on deep social causes that inflict social injustice and poverty to large portions of the world population. This article explains this proclivity of Lula's foreign policy as a result of colliding agendas prevailing inside Lula's party, and his governing coalition. The social and political bases of such divide are explored, and the process through which ideological goals prevail in his foreign agenda is described.
... of Rio,4 the political Latin American summit (considered as a sort of OAS without the United St...vulnerability of the youth to the dissemination of extremist ideals [and the]...
[Jerry Seinfeld] says: "I don't understand. Do you have my reservation?" And the woman behind the counter says: We have your reservation. We just ran out of cars. Jerry: I don't think you do. You see, you know how to 'take' the reservation. You just don't know how to 'hold' the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them." A word about the Assembly of First Nations' H1N1 Summit. It failed to live up to its hype, and, worse yet, it did damage to the credibility of the organization as the voice and authority of First Nations concerns and issues. One of the issues raised by a participant in the youth forum was a distrust of the government agenda. First Nations, he said, were never first in line for anything, never a pr...
... is left to political will and the policy of the government of the day, and we know that pol...
...The comparative youth of the department, however, was a stumbling block.... employees actively engaged in formulating policy advice and carrying out the government's instructi... them, because of the increasing demands of summit diplomacy and because of their responsibility for ...
China has experienced pressing energy shortages in recent years, and Beijing has intensified its efforts to secure China's energy supply through both increased domestic production and external expansion. In this paper, I first analyze China's global quest for energy by looking at the correlation between China's economic growth and its energy security concerns. I then examine the implications of China's "go-out" strategy through two sets of case studies. I argue that China's global search for energy is primarily driven by its rapid economic growth, out of insecurity rather than a master plan to dominate the world, and that China's energy security issues have multiple implications beyond simple economic concerns. Finally, I recommend a forward-looking engagement policy to be adapted by Ca...
...(The Beijing Youth Daily 2005) According to Wang Chao, former Ministe...-up to the November 2006 China-Africa summit in Beijing. With Africa today supplying 30 percent...
...In 1077, a federal policy report proposed an expanded infrastructure program... to Join Other Premiers at National Summit on Aboriginal Health" (24 November 2006) online: P...See also Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v Canada (Attorney General), 2004 SCC ...
..., especially those affecting aboriginal youth. Under his watch, his alma mater is getting new bu... to the billion dollar bills for the G8/G20 summit security. Toews would be higher on the list, but h... politician and her influence on government policy should not be undervalued. 222Brennan. It's probab...
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