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The Brookings Institution Another school year, another debate on how to guarantee that no student gets left behind. Tom Loveless argues that the nation’s top students, contrary to what a new study shows, may be making smaller gains. And, to discuss this and other education policy challenges, Russ Whitehurst participates in a live web chat. Learn More »

La Presse Canadienne L'ex-président des Etats-Unis, Bill Clinton, espère que son pays suivra l'exemple du Canada et qu'il mettra en place un système de santé public. Bill Clinton a tenu ces propos samedi après-midi lors de l'exposition nationale canadienne qui a lieu à Toronto, seulement quelques heures après avoir assisté aux funérailles du sénateur américain Ted Kennedy à Boston. Lire en détail From: NewsCan: For August 28 to September 3, 2009

The Centre for the Study of Living Standards has released a report concluding that the current recession will erase many of the economic and standard of living gains made since the mid-1990s. Unemployment and poverty will likely continue to rise and stay at high levels for years, contend author Jean-François Arsenault and Andrew Sharpe. Read From the August 28, 2009 edition of Canada Watch, a weekly summary of Canadian news and information sources compiled by the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Coinciding with Prime Minister Harper’s visit to the Arctic the Institute for Research on Public Policy has released the concluding chapter, “The New Northern Policy Universe,” from its pathbreaking book, Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada’s North.