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Killeen, Pierre. Facebook and Prorogation: Why did more than 200,000 people join the Facebook group “Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament,” and why should anyone care? January 2010.

http://www.rideauinstitute.ca/file-library/Facebook-and-Prorogation.pdf

Macdonald, David. Flying High: A Plan to Rebuild Canada's Space Capabilities. Canadian Auto Workers and the Rideau Institute, June 2008. http://www.rideauinstitute.ca/file-library/flyinghigh.pdf

Staples, Steven, and Bill Robinson. More Than the Cold War: Canada’s military spending 2007–08. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, October 2007. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2007/More_Than_the_Cold_War.pdf

Staples, Steven. Marching Orders: How Canada abandoned peacekeeping – and why the UN needs us now more than ever. The Council of Canadians, October 2006. http://www.canadians.org/peace/issues/Marching_Orders/index.html