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The People’s Republic of China, established in 1949 under the one-party rule of the Chinese Communist Party, is an authoritarian regime by all standards. There are no free elections at the national level, media freedom is severely…
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Hall Evelyn Hall illustrated Voltaire’s beliefs in the principle of freedom of speech with the above phrase. The sentiment remains  common in today’s…
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Canada, the United States of America and Mexico have reached an agreement after months of negotiation on a new trade agreement called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). When President Donald Trump began his tenure in the…
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Paul Clarke is the executive director of Action Réfugiés Montreal, a small NGO that assists sponsorship programmes for refugees coming to Canada, provides services helping refugee women build social networks, and is the only organization in…
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Après une grande frayeur lors des législatives autrichiennes de 2017, la communauté européenne se trouve rassurée de la défaite du parti populiste et nationaliste FPÖ au profit d’une droite plus modérée. Malgré leur échec, le FPÖ autrichien…
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The use of sports to display an image of a strong, modernized Russia to the global community has been a common factor in the country’s history, especially during the Soviet era. Throughout the Cold War, sporting events were at the centre of…
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Alors que le 29 mars 2019 approche, marquant la sortie officielle du Royaume-Uni de l’Union Européenne, aucun accord pour maintenir des relations socio-économiques favorisées entre le pays et l’Union n’a encore été signé. Le Brexit est…
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This article is dedicated to the journalists around the world who have died for the sake of their work.  2018 has been a long, bloody year for journalism. Seventy journalists, from twenty-year-old reporters to grizzled veterans, have been…
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Alors que la violente crise économique de 2008, déclenchée après la chute de la banque Lehman Brothers, débuta en tant que crise des subprimes aux États-Unis, elle ne s’attarda pas à contaminer l’économie mondiale de façon intégrale,…
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Le 28 Septembre 2018, de lourds affrontements sont survenus dans les rues de Catalogne entre indépendantistes catalans et forces de l’ordre. Ces affrontements font suite à la célébration des un an du référendum pour l’indépendance qu’avait…
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