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2006

Official launch of the Canadian Development Report 2007 available

The Canadian Development Report 2007 – The Global Right to Health, was officially launched in Ottawa last December with a roundtable discussion on health and development.

The panel featured contributors Lois Ross and Chantal Blouin along with special guests Stephen Wallace, Vice-President, Policy Branch from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Christina Zarowsky, Team Leader, Governance, Equity and Health, from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).   

  Click here to listen in audio - (available only in English)


Interview with NSI Researcher – Security sector reform in Burundi
(September 18th 2006)

Radio-Canada International interviews NSI Researcher Kristiana Powell, who is undertaking research on security sector reform while stationed in Bujumbura, Burundi.

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Interview with NSI Principal Researcher - AIDS: Access to essential medicines
(August 30th 2006)

Don Kossick, Program Development Coordinator at Making the Links, which broadcasts on CFCR 90.5 FM community radio in Saskatoon, interviews John Foster, NSI Principal Researcher (Civil Society/Governance), regarding the International AIDS Conference held in Toronto from August 13th to18th, 2006. John Foster provides a political and social overview of the AIDS pandemic including issues of treatment and prevention.

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Interview with NSI Principal Researcher - International AIDS Conference (August 28th 2006)

Joseph Zebrowski, host and producer of community radio station CKCU's program "Monday Special Blend", interviews NSI Principal Researcher John Foster regarding the International AIDS Conference held in Toronto on August 13-18, 2006.

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Canadian Challenges Series (June 22nd 2006)

Roy Culpeper, NSI President, speaks on the subject of trade investments and international relations at an Ottawa luncheon as part of the Canadian Challenges Series organized by the National Press Club of Canada.

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Interview with NSI Researchers - Fragile states and peacekeeping with a gender lens (June 5th 2006)

Joseph Zebrowski, host of community radio station CKCU's program "Monday Special Blend", interviews NSI Researchers Kristiana Powell and Jennifer Salahub, regarding conflict prevention, fragile states, and the role of gender.

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CBO-FM interview with NSI President Roy Culpeper (January 17th 2006)

CBC Ottawa Morning interviews Roy Culpeper, focusing on the 2006 federal election and why international development issues should be more of an issue during the campaign.

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2005

CDR 2005 launch (September 8th 2005)

The Canadian Development Report 2005, launched on September 8th in Ottawa, is available in audio. Listen to these panellists discuss the Millennium Development Goals:

Syed Sajjadur Rahman — Associate Vice-President and Director General, Policy CIDA; Roy Culpeper, President, NSI; Brian Tomlinson, Coordinator Policy Team, CCIC; Lillie Chitauro, Program Coordinator-Gender Equity, Canadian Parliamentary Centre; and Mikael Eriksson, Minister, Embassy of Sweden.

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2004

‘We the Peoples’ (October 2004)

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CDR 2004 launch (June 2004)

An audio file of the panel discussion on the CDR 2004 is available for listening. Introductory remarks were made by Ross Hornby — Foreign Affairs Canada. The panel included Roy Culpeper — The North-South Institute, David Moloney — Canadian International Development Agency, Mark Fried — Oxfam Canada, and Madelaine Drohan — Journalist and author of "Making a Killing".

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“At War’s End” / “What Kind of Peace is Possible”? (October 4, 2004)

A bilingual audio file of the launch is available for listening.

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 Forum: Guns, Diplomacy, Foreign Aid. Do we have the Balance Right?

Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street East, Toronto. NSI President Roy Culpeper is one of the keynote speakers. [413k]

  Click here to listen in audio to the forum.


2003

The other 9/11 - Principal Researcher John Foster prepared this commentary on the coup in Chile in 1973 for CBC’s Sunday Edition. (It aired on September 7, 2003)

 Commentary in audio by John Foster.


 Moving forward on the Millennium Development Goals: The role of civil society, a roundtable discussion led by Eveline Herfkens, the UN Secretary General's Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals Campaign (June 6, 2003) [24k]

 Presentation in audio by Eveline Herfkens.


2001

CDR 2001/02 release (November 23, 2001)

Roy Culpeper, President of The North-South Institute, introduced two guest contributors to the Canadian Development Report 2001/02, Yao Graham, Coordinator of Third World Network Africa, and Jocelyn Dow, President of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). They spoke during a Newsmaker Breakfast at the National Press Gallery as part of NSI 25th anniversary celebrations.

Introduction speech by Roy Culpeper, President of The North-South Institute, at the launch of the Canadian Development Report 2001/02.

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Guest speaker Yao Graham, Coordinator of Third World Network Africa. Introduction by Roy Culpeper.

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Guest speaker Jocelyn Dow, President of Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). Introduction by Roy Culpeper.

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