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February 4, 2025
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Canada’s leadership in development finance: How partnerships address global challenges and advance shared prosperity

Fifty years ago in 1975, leaders from the industrialised world gathered in Paris to discuss the 1973 oil crisis, financial shock, and subsequent global recession that knew no borders. Canada joined the following year. What has since become known as the G7 saw its member countries agree to gather annually to discuss the world’s most pressing political and economic challenges. The effort highlighted global cooperation.
December 3, 2024
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Climate Adaptation: Addressing the Unavoidable Truth 

In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin referenced that nothing in this world is said to be certain, “except death and taxes”. As the impact of climate change intensifies – hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and more extreme temperatures that know no border – we are introduced to life’s third certainty, or better yet unavoidable truth. Climate adaptation.