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After three days of hearings in The Hague over Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya, Rae shares his thoughts on what comes next.

With the UN climate change conference underway in Spain, one of the participants from Canada, Kluane Adamek, tells OpenCanada of the Yukon’s priorities and concerns.

With a summit on Canada’s global leadership taking place next week, Moyer explains why the recent election campaign was a ‘wake-up call’ for the humanitarian sector and what Canada’s priorities on the world stage should be.

The longtime Beirut-based reporter, now the subject of a new Canadian documentary, reflects on his career in the field and the stories that are being missed in the region.

In its second week of unrest, Chile, long seen as Latin America’s ‘economic miracle,’ is quickly becoming ground zero for social policy reform. Is change possible?

Canadian lawyer Leilani Farha has become a global voice for the right to adequate housing. She chats with OpenCanada as a new documentary about her work screens internationally.

After spending this past year living in United States, Canadian author Naomi Klein reflects on what the momentum for the Green New Deal there can teach Canada about climate action.

As millions are expected to take to the streets once again September 27, we chat with a 15-year-old Canadian activist taking part.

Dallaire speaks with OpenCanada ahead of 6 Degrees next week, where he will receive the 2019 Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship.

As the federal election campaign officially kicks off, political columnist John Ivison discusses Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy hits and misses over the last four years.

Ellen Page and Ian Daniel’s new documentary highlights cases of environmental racism in Nova Scotia. Along with author Ingrid Waldron, whose book inspired the film, Page chats with OpenCanada about the project.

As part of a new interview series, we chat with this year’s Massey lecturer, journalist Sally Armstrong, as she prepares for her series of cross-Canada talks and the publication of the accompanying book, Power Shift.

With a new book out, Chris Hedges speaks with OpenCanada
about what decay looks like in the United States, why Trump is a ‘symptom and
not the disease,’ and the importance of listening to others. 

As Klein launches a new book, she speaks to OpenCanada about
Trump’s brand, his influence on foreign affairs and the crucial stories we’re
missing when distracted by his shock factor.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, historian Timothy
Snyder looked to the not-too-distant past to create a road map for averting
tyranny in the future. He speaks with OpenCanada about the history lessons society often forgets.

Capitalism versus the climate?
Not quite, says Catherine McKenna. On International Women’s Day, the Canadian minister discusses how conversations around climate, economic growth and
gender have shifted.

Is a breakup of the EU still possible? How will Dion handle his double appointment? We spoke with The Globe‘s man in Europe to find out.

In a conversation with OpenCanada’s Eva Salinas, PEN
International’s past president John Ralston Saul looks back on his time with
the organization and the state of freedom of expression in Canada and beyond.

The Canadian government has reiterated its
promise to lift the visa requirement but has stayed mum on a timeframe and
reason for the delay. Is Trudeau’s North American vision at stake?

Canadian Ambassador Mark McDowell on the country’s democratic transition,
its relationship with Canada, and how it might avoid development mistakes.

The
$15-billion Saudi deal may be Canada’s biggest but it is certainly not the
first. As Canada’s long history as an arms exporter shows, many deals are not
on the books and fly in the face of the country’s peacekeeper reputation.

‘These cities are growing. There are more of them. There are more and more
people being born in them. In some respects, this is the future.’ Author Ben
Rawlence shines a light on Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. 

True to form, Canada’s former ambassador to the UN speaks frankly about making the organization fairer and more efficient, its greatest successes and its most worrying failures.

Some necessary, some inevitable, others often ignored — these are the foreign policy questions we hope make it into the 2015 election campaign.

UNICEF’s Kent Page speaks from Kathmandu on the challenge to get kids back into schools, reach remote villages, and rebuild a country, following two powerful earthquakes.

The academic and blogger mourns the world’s bullies, takes on Piketty, and predicts Canada will never have its own Silicon Valley.

’90s hip-hop star Pras Michel discusses one of the most unbelievable presidential runs in the world — that of his friend Michel Martelly.

As the U.S. questions its strike protocols, we interview director of new film, Drone, screening at the Hot Docs Festival.

Global health advocate and critical thinker Alex Jadad dares policymakers to place love at the root of helping others

Current government promoting ties between private sector and communities.

Days before Fahmy’s retrial, CJFE explains the importance of public support in his case.

Silicon Valley is great at selling the benefits of technology. But ‘techno-optimist’ Marc Goodman says before we wire the world, we need to secure it.

Will the U.S. crowd out Canada?

The new director of the Munk School of Global Affairs talks funding, elections and the state of the world.

Careful, precise and considerate language is important.

Ninette Kelley, UNHCR’s representative in Lebanon, on what it means to be living as a Syrian refugee there.

Cartoonist Joe Sacco’s latest book is a ‘howl of outrage’ against U.S. foreign policy. His work and others before him helped change a medium.

The visa has caused tension and debate, but what’s missing from the discussion?

‘Without journalists, there is no democracy,’ says star of Jon Stewart’s Rosewater.

Is the new film Rosewater the antidote to Argo? Stewart and actor Gael Garcia Bernal talk politics.

Cartographer Sébastien Caquard on how technology is both democratizing and controlling the border-making process.

A Toronto Star reporter, MSF worker, Sierra Leonean journalist and the British High Commissioner to Ghana share their insights.

Hashtags and Facebook posts may not change policy, but they can set the agenda, Alfred Hermida writes in his new book, Tell Everyone.

Dr. Jamie Bartram on why we can’t continue building 20th century systems for 22nd century problems.

An interview with the head of the UN’s Gaza investigation, William Schabas.

With the release of Klein’s new book on climate change, she speaks with OpenCanada about new economic models, collective action and indigenous rights.

An interview with Dan Werb on what changes in U.S. drug law mean for Canada.

Ten factors any country debating marijuana legalization should consider. By Eva Salinas.

An interview with author and academic Maria Cristina Garcia about Canada’s relationship with migrants from Central America.