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In 2008 he became head of the central Bank of Canada, where he was widely credited for his steady hand in that year’s financial crisis. In an unusual reminder of Canada’s colonial connection, he was ...

An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there ...