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Canada deaf to growing hunger crisis, UN aide says
Continue to the storyA key adviser to the United Nations has sharply criticized Canada for abandoning its leadership role in international development, and urged the country to step up its level of aid to poorer countries in the face of soaring food prices. Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's best-known economists, accused the Harper government yesterday of adopting an "antagonistic," and occasionally "mocking," tone toward the implementation of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, a group of objectives aimed at alleviating problems ranging from poverty to global warming.