Posts Tagged ‘risk’
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen April 1st, 2008
Panel 3: From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
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Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
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Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: …
By Christopher Alderson April 1st, 2008
The creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and …
By Cultural Shifts January 27th, 2008
There is a short animated documentary called Money as Debt worth checking out. The video, which goes through a brief history of monetary and banking systems, raises a number of questions that relate to the US subprime crisis, not to mention the global financial …
By D. T. Cochrane January 25th, 2008
A trader with the French bank Société Générale has been implicated in fraud that cost the bank $7.3 billion. Knowledgeable of the various security mechanisms meant to prevent this sort of fraud, Jerome Kerviel was able to hide his transactions from controllers. It …