December, 2005
New life in old Quebec doctrine
Summary: "My view is that the provinces' role is to be provinces — and stay home," says Paul Heinbecker
Times change, but compassion is a gift that endures
After a high school reunion in Massachusetts, the writer Paul Theroux was driving along a country road when he swerved suddenly to miss a cat. As he regained control, he recalled a night long ago, after a high school dance, when he sped up to hit a cat. Now, the action horrified him. Time, as high school reunions brutally remind us, brings many changes.
Times change, but compassion is a gift that endures
After a high school reunion in Massachusetts, the writer Paul Theroux was driving along a country road when he swerved suddenly to miss a cat. As he regained control, he recalled a night long ago, after a high school dance, when he sped up to hit a cat. Now, the action horrified him. Time, as high school reunions brutally remind us, brings many changes.
Predicting Who may Be the Next Foreign Minister
Summary: "CIGI Associate Director, Andrew F. Cooper shares his thoughts on who may be the next Canadian Foreign Minister in the latest edition of Embassy Magazine."
Deputy at UN to join Waterloo centre
Louise Fréchette, the United Nation's second-in-command in charge of reform, is leaving her post in April to join a Waterloo international thinktank. Fréchette, the UN deputy-secretary for the past eight years, will devote most of her time at the Centre for International Governance Innovation to a major research project involving nuclear energy.
Deputy UN chief Frechette returns to Canada in April
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Louise Frechette, the second highest ranking official in the United Nations in charge of reform plans, will leave her post at the end of April to join a research institute in her native Canada, U.N. officials said on Friday.
Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to leave UN in April
16 December 2005 – United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette, appointed to the newly created post in 1998, will be leaving the United Nations early next year to become Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Canada, the UN spokesman announced today.
Deputy Secretary General Frechette to step down, join research centre
UNITED NATIONS (CP) - Louise Frechette, the UN's deputy secretary general who was criticized for tolerating corruption in the oil-for-food program, will join a research centre in her native Canada in April, the centre announced Friday.
The Big Questions of Our Time - Part 3: The Future of Power
I was recently at Waterloo, a small university town about an hour’s drive from Toronto, Canada where my friend John English has recently established the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) with support from Jim Balsillie, founder of the Blackberry communication system. The occasion was a CIGI conference on emerging powers.
Our good health depends on global co-operation
Health has not typically been a top priority on international agendas, but times are changing.
Spikes, Flats and Bumps on the Road to the New Economy
These days, economic pundits sound a lot like elementary school teachers giving a geography lesson. “The world is flat!” says Thomas Friedman in his new book of the same title. “The world is spiky!” reports Richard Florida in an October Atlantic Monthly article.