Photo Credit: Embassy of Argentina Republic, Canada In my capacity as Canadian International Council (CIC) Latin America and Caribbean Study Group Chair, I had the honour and pleasure to moderate a discussion in late 2023 held on Parliament Hill between Latin American Ambassadors to Canada and Canadian Parliamentarians. The CIC has posted a brief summary …
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Canadians have a long-held belief that when other people try to describe what makes us distinctly Canadian, the only thing they can come up with is that we are not Americans. We’ve all heard it… we are the “polite" North Americans…the “I’m sorry" North Americans…the “after you" North Americans”… the “we welcome immigrants and multiculturalism" …
I find that I have become obsessed with data. Pandemic data to be precise. It comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes… new cases; hospitalizations; ICU occupancy; ventilator use; deaths; financial support; vaccine production, shipment, utilization rates; unemployment rates; business closures; government deficits. But the problem is that trying to make sense of …
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