From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
The third panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Posts Tagged ‘risk’
A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so-new political imagination of spatially-bound identity
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 …
Money, Debt and the Subprime Crisis
By Eliot Che — 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 …
$7.3 billion gone?
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 …
