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Actions by Brian Mulroney led Canada to a national housing crisis.

Saul had hoped the postcolonial and postapartheid governments would launch an assault on capitalism and the inequalities it created, but instead he saw the elites slip into the roles of the white capitalist rulers they had replaced

Brian Mulroney: Hugh was a loyal, delightful, warm, affectionate, reasonable guy, who brought a great deal to the decision-making process of my government.

OTTAWA - In 1962, then-prime minister John Diefenbaker visited Hugh Segal's school in Montreal to present the principal with a copy of the newly minted Canadian Bill of Rights.

Editors Note Last week marked six months for the Biden administration and for the narrow Democratic majority in Congress. So it seems an appropriate time for a report card on U.S. Africa policy. And that also means a review of U.S. policies on todays most pressing global issues, on which the negative effects fall disproportionately on Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. This AfricaFocus Bulletin is my version of such a report card. Its short, just pass/fail. Its not an essay, nor is ...

Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice, they prioritize militarized responses that are not only abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive. African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords, b...