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Probe International Rethinking foreign aid, restoring accountability, reinvigorating economies Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 Search for...  Menu Home About Us Foundation Board Our Record Staff Our Principles Archives Advanced Search Contact Us China’s Water News Beijing’s Water Crisis Beijing’s Olympic Water Crisis 2010 Update Oral Histories South-North Water Diversion Project Dai Qing Interactive Map of the Forbidden City Mekong Utility Watch Photo Gallery China’s Dams News Three Gorges Oral Histories Three Gorges “Reservoir Watch” Landslides Earthquakes/RIS Three Gorges Zipingpu More Yangtze Floods and Drought Dams and Fish China’s Energy Industry Yangtze Power China “Going Out” Articles by Dai Qing Rule of Law Voices from China Critical Issues Photo Gallery Odious Debt News Odious Debts: The Book Corruption Odious Debts Atlas Vulture Funds Legal Resources Foreign Aid News Bilateral Aid Multilateral Aid Africa Haiti Off Aid Photo Gallery Export Credit News Export Credit Agencies Export Development Canada News Legislation Environment Secrecy Corruption Cost to Taxpayer Export Development Canada Projects Canada Pension Plan Patagonia Dams Photo Gallery Sources Carbon Watch News Climategate Support Us Let’s not double down on the nanny state By Other News Sources on April 23, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) The virus may be “natural” but governments have made the crisis. Although the circumstances are new, says Queen’s University law professor, Bruce Pardy, the pattern is not: the larger the welfare state, the more it stands in the way of well being. Don’t double down: turn around. A city comes to life By Probe International on April 16, 2020 • ( 2 Comments ) Tianshui is the second-largest city in northwestern Gansu Province. Less severely impacted by COVID-19 than other areas, Tianshui is finding its pulse as restrictions lift and the colours and quickening step of spring brightens warmer days. This gallery of recovery snapshots captures one city’s return to a new (but different) normal. China’s Chernobyl moment By Other News Sources on April 14, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) More than one hundred China experts and senior political figures have signed an open letter describing the Chinese Communist Party government’s cover up of COVID-19 as “China’s Chernobyl moment.” The group of signatories, who include some of the world’s leading authorities on Chinese politics, law, and modern history, say that the Chinese government’s rule by fear endangers Chinese citizens—and the world. A stopped Beijing By Probe International on March 12, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) New images from inside Beijing’s travel arteries show a stopped Beijing as the battle to contain the coronavirus outbreak brings one of the world’s most populous cities to an eerie halt. Opinion: In China, defiance of totalitarian rule is spreading as fast as the coronavirus By Patricia Adams on February 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) The people are no longer fearful,’ says Chinese law professor, Xu Zhangrun. ‘As a result of this great virus, the people are enraged and they’ve had enough’. Read the new opinion piece on China’s growing people problem in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic. By Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Probe International, for the National Post. That pipeline again By Other News Sources on February 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) What’s the difference between the 2018 Federal Court of Appeal decision to quash federal approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion and the FCA’s 2020 decision to uphold cabinet’s approval of the project? The heroes and villains have changed places. Read between the lines with legal expert Andrew Roman. Meng extradition hearing has drawn close scrutiny from advocates for human rights and judicial reform in China By Other News Sources on January 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) Canada must use Meng Wanzhou’s fight against extradition to the U.S. to send a clear message to China, and not the wrong one. The real winner out of Meng Wanzhou’s hearing? Canada’s rule of law By Other News Sources on January 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment ) The son and daughter of one of China’s most famous pro-democracy activists applaud the freedom Meng Wanzhou enjoys in Canada to make her case in court. Canada, they say, must use the opportunity to celebrate “the principles that animate those proceedings at every possible opportunity.” Let’s tell the whole truth about ‘average’ global temperature rises By Other News Sources on November 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) Opinion: Everybody is warming faster than average. Is all this just fake news? No, it’s all true. How is that possible? Because of the word ‘average’. Legal expert Andrew Roman goes behind the hot and getting hotter headlines. The rise and fall of “good governance” promotion By Other News Sources on October 31, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) Join Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, renowned politologist and one of Romania’s most outspoken and brave public figures, for the Seymour Martin Lipset Memorial Lecture on Democracy in the World this coming Wednesday, November 6, at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Did our Prime Minister violate the Conflict of Interest Act? By Other News Sources on August 22, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) Legal expert Andrew Roman digs deep into the bombshell report on the SNC-Lavalin affair issued by Canada’s Ethics Commissioner, Mario Dion, and criticisms of that report by Errol Mendes, a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of Ottawa. Who was right, who was wrong? Read on. Why Canada needs to disentangle itself from a bullying China By Patricia Adams on August 6, 2019 • ( 1 Comment ) Opinion: The likelihood that we are on the cusp of a new cold war must factor into our economic decision-making. In this opinion piece for the National Post, Patricia Adams of Probe International asks: “Would it have been prudent for Canada to cast its lot with the Soviet Union in the 1950s, when the geopolitical winds were blowing belligerent?” A deadly 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits China’s big-dam country, Jinsha River valley By Other News Sources on June 19, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan province in southwest China late Monday night, followed by a series of aftershocks measuring over magnitude 5.0 reports China’s official Xinhua news agency. Historical data indicates the event is an unprecedented one for the area. See no evil: How Canada is bankrolling companies accused of bid-rigging, graft and human-rights violation By Other News Sources on June 5, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) A Globe and Mail investigation of Export Development Canada (EDC) reveals “a pattern of secrecy and lax supervision”. Probe International’s Patricia Adams says EDC is an unaccountable “institution out of control”. What does EDC do? A guide to ‘Canada’s secret trade weapon’ By Other News Sources on June 5, 2019 • ( Leave a comment ) Here’s what you need to know about the most powerful financial institution you almost never hear about. Posts navigation 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 507 Older › Contributors Patricia Adams Brady Yauch Dai Qing Fan Xiao Lawrence Solomon Mu Lan Probe International Lisa Peryman Other News Sources Follow us on Twitter My Tweets Top categories: Odious Debts China Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. | Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. 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