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  • Macleans

    US Presidential Candidate John McCain

    John McCain's campaign bus is rolling through New Hampshire, from Laconia to Nashua and half a dozen places in between.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 31, 2000

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  • Macleans

    Vancouver's APEC Summit

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 8, 1997. Partner content is not updated.

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  • Macleans

    Vermont Residents Understand Canada's anti-war stance

    SO, HAS IT come down to that? Canada refuses to join the U.S. in the war in Iraq and U.S. ambassador Paul Cellucci utters thinly veiled threats of reprisal; Montreal fans boo the Star-Spangled Banner at a hockey game; Canadian truckers get harassed on U.S.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 21, 2003

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  • Macleans

    Vietnam Victim Finds Peace In Canada

    Her face is round and smooth and she laughs often. She is a grown woman now, a wife and mother living in a modest apartment in the area of Toronto's east end known as "little" Chinatown.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 10, 1997

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  • Article

    Canadian Voice of Women for Peace

    Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is a feminist, non-partisan, non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1960. The organization opposes violence and war and promotes nuclear disarmament, peace and social justice. It does so through education, advocacy and strengthening the voices of women. Famous members include politician Thérèse Casgrain, activist Grace Hartman and physicist Ursula Franklin.

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    War Crimes

    A commission of inquiry on war criminals was established in February 1985 in response to longstanding charges that Canada has become a haven for Nazi war criminals after WWII, including an allegation that Joseph Mengele has entered the country.

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  • Macleans

    Water Wars

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 6, 2000. Partner content is not updated. They are an unlikely class of political provocateurs: the water entrepreneurs. In Vancouver, fast-talkers with dreams of getting in on the ground floor of a 21st-century boom once touted their plans for taking pure British Columbia mountain water in tankers to California. Shut down by a B.C.

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    White Paper on Foreign Policy

    A 6-volume review of foreign policy conducted 1968-70 by the Department of External Affairs (now FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE) with the involvement of many other departments and agencies, invited academics, business people and others.

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    Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

    The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded 1915 in The Hague, the Netherlands, by women active in the Women's Suffrage movement in Europe and North America. These women wished to end WWI and seek ways to ensure that no more wars took place.

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    Canada and the World Trade Organization

    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization that regulates global trade. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Canada is one of its 164 members. The country plays a central role in the WTO and was also a key member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that preceded it. In addition to helping craft the WTO’s dispute resolution systems, Canada is among those countries most directly involved in its trade dispute cases.

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  • Macleans

    Worldwide Ban on British Beef

    "Be careful, some of 'ems in a nasty mood," warned a police constable to those venturing into Smithfield Market in London last week. The sprawling shed with its grand Victorian lattice has been the centre of Britain's meat trade since the last century.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 8, 1996

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  • Macleans

    WTO Rules Against Canada's Magazine Policy

    Donovan Bailey might not seem the most likely witness on behalf of Canadian culture.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 27, 1997

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  • Macleans

    WTO Seattle Riots

    It was a remarkable, and perhaps prophetic, closing chapter to the millennium.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 13, 1999

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