Haroon's devlog

Last week I offered some background to the Canadian government's decision to close the Canadian International Development Agency by merg...

An article in the current Watershed Sentinel that draws upon an interview that I gave a few days ago: Land Grabs & the Canadian Co...

Join Jim Stanford in this excellent search for Canada's economic recovery. My thanks to Brian Robinson for showing me this.

This interesting paper from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives shows how over a 90 year period there have been cycles in inequality...

Although it is far too commonly ridiculed by Canadians that I have met, I feel that I am extremely fortunate to have been raised in Thunder ...

Canadians have a self-image of themselves as well-meaning, liberal, polite and open. Canada as a nation is often seen in much the same way....

Earlier this week US President Barack Obama announced, after a long and often heated debate within the US administration, that an additional...

Over the course of the summer, there have been a number of major global stories with international development dimensions: but one in partic...

This weblog has been very quiet, for several months. The pressures of work have not allowed me to follow up several issues on which I have ...

Canada currently delivers about $4.1 billion a year in development co-operation, or what is commonly known as 'foreign aid'. Moreov...