Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down with Patrick Leblond, a Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, for a conversation about the NAFTA renegotiations and e-commerce.NAFTA covers auto parts, reduced tariffs on textiles and lots of other trade issues, but it doesn’t mention online shopping. Because when…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down with Jason Thistlethwaite, a Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, for a conversation about climate change and insurance companies.The cost of repairing the damage done by hurricanes is massive. In part, because flooding is the most expensive risk world-wide. And insuran…

As the war games continue to escalate in the Korean Peninsula, what is the way forward for diplomatic efforts to prevent armed conflict? In this conversation, Simon Palamar, a global security expert with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, sheds light on the complex web of players and intentions at play, and provides insight into th…

The possibility that Pyongyang will have the ability to reach the United States with a nuclear weapon is no longer a frightening “what-if”, but a matter of time. News of these developments has left Washington several steps behind Pyongyang.While threats and promises of retaliation continue to mount from both the US and North Korea, there is a bigge…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down with Marsha Cadogan and Oluwatobiloba (Tobi) Mody, both post-doctoral fellows with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, for a conversation about how the NAFTA renegotiations can be used as a chance to protect traditional knowledge and create a discussion about the multi-billion bus…

On a map, it is little more than a grouping of rocks, shoals and islands. To China and the Philippines the South China sea is much, much more. To a host of different regional players the area represents a wealth of natural resources, and an important geopolitical flashpoint for the region’s security. A year ago, Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitrati…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down with Céline Bak, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, for a conversation about how a taskforce of leading think tanks are working with members of Group of Twenty countries to harness large scale investment in sustainable infrastructure and chart a path towards …

By backing out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, and offering to renegotiate a new pact, the US has created an opening for China to take on a leadership role in the international community and press ahead with coordinated climate action, according to Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty, an expert in international environmental law at the Centre for Inte…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down for a conversation about the thinking behind the launch of the World Refugee Council (http://worldrefugeecouncil.org) with Lloyd Axworthy, chair of the council and former Canadian foreign affairs minister, who provides a behind-the-scenes account of the shuttle diplomacy required to reform the gl…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down for a conversation with CIGI senior fellow Paul Blustein to discuss business competition in China. International businesses competing in the Chinese market have encountered a shift in recent years, as the state has learned to operate within the parameters of the world trading system while finding…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down for a conversation with CIGI senior fellow Kevin Carmichael to discuss the issues that will be central to this spring's IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington DC. These meetings are closed-book events for most, but not for Kevin Carmichael. Kevin opens the curtain on how the meetings work and …

We sat down with CIGI expert Tom Bernes to chat about Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's meeting Monday with American President Donald Trump.Av CIGI

In a setback for champions of Brexit, the UK Supreme Court ruled that parliament ultimately holds the power to trigger the process to leave the European Union, and must have a say before the steps to exit the EU are triggered.In this podcast, Oonagh Fitzgerald, director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation's International Law Resea…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down for a conversation with Jeff Rubin, a senior fellow with CIGI’s Global Economy Program, to talk about the Liberal Government's recent pipeline decisions which delighted some and angered others. The most controversial approval is the $6.8-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain project which would ad…

Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sits down for a conversation with David Mussington, a senior fellow with CIGI’s Global Security & Politics Program, to talk about how Julian Assange became a useful idiot of Moscow and a partisan tool at the expense of Hillary Clinton.Av CIGI

From the hack of millions of Ashley Madison files to the leaked documents publicized within the Snowden revelations, users all over the world are beginning to lose faith in the internet. Fen Hampson, co-author of Look Who’s Watching, believes that when it comes to the internet “nothing is private, we are all exposed and we are all vulnerable”. In a…

Oonagh Fitzgerald, Director of CIGI's International Law Research Program discusses what a Trump presidency means for US domestic climate change policy and international environmental agreements.Av CIGI

Martin Guzman, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, talks about the lasting implications of Argentina's debt crisis and how vulture funds prolonged the country's woes. The country’s 2001 default was followed by a complex debt restructuring that included a long legal dispute with so-called vulture funds and other …

Buzzfeed News sits down for a brief conversation with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) after the digital media organization took the world by surprise with a 10,000-word series by Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist Chris Hamby on investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), one of the most controversial parts of …