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483:
444:
413:
377:
357:Nigel Lawson
338:
335:Dec 1, 2009
318:Paul Collier
309:Dambisa Moyo
299:
279:Rick Hillier
266:Gareth Evans
260:
257:Dec 1, 2008
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149:Barrick Gold
125:Munk Debates
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1405:during the
1342:Gideon Levy
1338:Mehdi Hasan
1290:George Will
1251:Max Tegmark
1216:Matt Taibbi
1108:Wang Huiyao
1034:Stephen Fry
838:Matt Ridley
804:Tom Mulcair
642:Hanna Rosin
564:Amos Yadlin
529:Josef Joffe
499:Ian Bremmer
392:Howard Dean
275:John Bolton
172:as well as
1656:Categories
1628:January 1,
1602:August 19,
1574:August 19,
1553:October 6,
1520:October 6,
1494:October 6,
1464:October 6,
1436:References
1391:See also:
1299:Ash Sarkar
1264:Yann LeCun
1069:David Frum
886:Mark Steyn
419:Tony Blair
383:Bill Frist
270:Mia Farrow
145:Peter Munk
71:newspapers
38:references
577:Vali Nasr
164:CBC Radio
1596:HuffPost
1489:The Star
950:is over…
1662:Debates
207:Winner
188:Debates
137:Ontario
133:Toronto
129:debates
85:scholar
213:Venue
210:Swing
198:Topic
182:C-SPAN
141:Canada
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1112:Con*
1073:Tie*
195:Date
169:Ideas
92:JSTOR
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1630:2024
1604:2019
1576:2019
1555:2020
1522:2020
1496:2020
1466:2020
1421:and
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1340:and
1331:and
1310:14%
1307:Con
1301:and
1292:and
1268:Con
1262:and
1253:and
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1229:Pro
1223:and
1214:and
1193:34%
1190:Con
1184:and
1175:and
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997:and
988:and
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914:and
893:22%
890:Con
884:and
875:and
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845:and
836:and
779:10%
776:Con
770:and
761:and
740:11%
737:Con
731:and
722:and
701:13%
698:Con
692:and
683:and
662:28%
659:Pro
653:and
644:and
623:12%
620:Pro
614:and
605:and
584:18%
581:Con
575:and
566:and
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542:Con
536:and
527:and
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503:Con
497:and
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467:Con
461:and
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431:13%
428:Con
397:Con
385:and
361:Con
355:and
346:and
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316:and
307:and
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277:and
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247:17%
244:Pro
238:and
229:and
204:Con
201:Pro
180:and
174:CPAC
123:The
64:news
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1349:5%
1271:3%
1154:2%
1115:2%
1076:0%
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967:5%
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854:2%
400:7%
364:8%
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