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On the 17th of October mass protests swept across Lebanon shortly after the government announced new tax measures. MIR Media Team Podcaster, Alexandre Edde, sat down with fellow students Hala and Hanin to discuss why Lebanon has become the…
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Morocco's Jewish past is emerging as the focal point in the nation's quest to reclaim their once-held reputation of religious diversity. What accounts for Morocco's promotion of their Jewish history and identity, and can the same quest be…
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On November 1st, the Yan P. Lin Centre, in collaboration with the McGill Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, welcomed Dr. William Taubman to McGill University to present a talk titled "The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev…
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Depuis le 21 novembre, les Colombiens manifestent contre le gouvernement du président Iván Duque, au pouvoir depuis maintenant environ un an et demi. Après douze jours de manifestations, marquées par une forte répression policière,…
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Primeval forests across Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, often referred to as ‘Europe’s Amazon,’ have become an unlikely battleground between illegal loggers and those trying to protect one of the world’s most ancient ecosystems. 
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Now established spaces symbolic of expression and innovation, galleries nevertheless meet economic imperatives in their commercial function. This dual identity of art production and sales is a strength in the contemporary art market, but a…
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Sara Parker and Tilila Bakrim attended the RE-WORK Deep Learning and Responsible AI Summit on October 24 to 25 in Montreal, a conference for AI-related industry professionals, from computer scientists to journalists to policymakers. This is…
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We have seen too often that radicalization in the virtual world can lead to real-world violence; we have seen terrible acts of mass violence that have been connected with members of the alt-right online, such as in Christchurch and El Paso.…
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In an era of rising authoritarianism, such as in Turkey, the Philippines, India, and arguably even the USA, democracies more than ever need to demonstrate their ability to govern in accordance with their people's needs to validate the…
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Editor's Note: This article was selected by the McGill International Review as the winner of the Secondary Schools' United Nations Symposium annual essay competition.  Since 2002, the number of democratic countries has outgrown the…
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