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Hong Kong’s chief executive elections, one of the city’s most anticipated political events, are scheduled to take place shortly on March 26 2017. Recently, several influential figures have been vying to secure nominations in order to…
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Canada holds one fifth of the planet’s fresh water. Moreover, according to the United Nations development program, over 99.8 percent of Canadians have access to clean drinking water and clean water for sanitation purposes. Yet in March…
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Since the onset of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, millions of Syrian citizens have sought refuge, primarily in neighbouring countries and in Europe. The largest influx of Syrian refugees has been into Turkey. As of February 2017, UNHCR…
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Vilified versus idealized political correctness: the toxic dichotomous debate that has monopolized the current public political scene. Often associated with a left-wing and liberal agenda led by millennials, the conversation around…
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The leader of France’s National Front, Marine Le Pen, has found both a new antagonist in the judicial system and a vector for her populist and europhobic discourse. Le Pen has picked a new institution to join the media as part of an…
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Up until 1973, the annual Academy Awards ceremony, where the Oscars are presented to the most talented of the movie industry, was mainly just that: an awards ceremony for glamorous people living in the bubble of wealth and fame. Then…
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The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority living primarily in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. There are roughly one million Rohingya in Myanmar, which is a third of Rakhine’s population. The Rohingya have been largely identified as…
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“Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology: the ideology of a retarded culture.” Bombastic comments spew left and right as they emanate from a shock of peroxide blond. Hundreds of supporters latch onto every word, soaking up the blatantly…
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Last Saturday, President Donald Trump sent out perhaps one of the strangest tweets of his presidency thus far. He alleged (somehow misspelling “tap” in the process) that former President Obama had tapped the phones at Trump Tower to gain…
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