Harold Innis and the North: Appraisals and Contestations Edited by William J. Buxton McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013 As the Great Powers, and the not so great, scramble for a piece of the thawing Arctic resource pie—with the Harper government pretending we own the North Pole, the home of Santa Claus,
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Canadian Dimension | Articles: The Beginning and End of Globalization and US Hegemony
Let us begin with a word, and the word is “globalization.” Not chosen randomly, but because it jumped out of the mindless chatter and could not be ignored. Hardly heard before 25 years ago, it went viral in the 1990s. Radhika Desai, a political economist at the University of Manitoba,
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