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Living in a country where your sexuality is illegal is kinda off-putting, at least when you're from a place where the Prime Minister attends Pride parades. I lived in Kenya for three months doing an internship with IMPACT, the Indigenous…
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On May 1st, a new Emperor of Japan ascended to the throne, marking an end to the thirty-year-long Heisei era and the beginning of the Reiwa era. This of course provided an occasion for a tidal wave of nostalgia (imagine end-of-year…
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The protest was part of a simultaneous show of solidarity across Canada. Its goal was to show Hong Kongers and lovers of the city that there are those who will not stand for this injustice, and there are people who are willing to fight for…
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Ces élections impliquent une véritable métamorphose politique de l’Union, et la nécessité d’établir de nouvelles alliances, des concessions, et des réformes, si elle entend survivre à la vague populiste euro-sceptique qui ne cesse de…
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La loi 21 sur la laïcité de l’État vise à mettre fin à un débat de société qui perdure au Québec depuis plus d'une décennie. Considérant les dommages causés par cette loi adoptée à la va-vite, espérons au contraire que le débat et la lutte…
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Although Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter provided a global audience for the people of Sudan, this did not translate to a rise in direct engagement. Rather, online campaigns opened the floodgates for fraudulent aid accounts, misinformation,…
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Loin des désastres diplomatiques dans les hautes sphères politiques, les sociétés civiles israéliennes et palestiniennes qui militent pour la paix sont déterminées à trouver une solution non-violente au conflit.
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On June 17th, the House of Commons voted to affirm that we are in a national climate emergency. It passed 186 to 63. Just a week prior, Trudeau announced that by 2021 there will be a ban on single-use plastics. And, of course, Trudeau also…
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Le Québec trône au sommet des provinces en déficit de travailleurs avec actuellement 120 000 postes vacants. Pour une entreprise sur deux, la difficulté à recruter freine les investissements. Face à la nouvelle politique migratoire, celles…
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When Nazarbayev stepped down earlier this year, observers wondered whether his abdication might mark a turn towards democratic rule in the country. This month's events show that this was hardly the case.
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