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So why does an ordinary All-Canadian boy from Kemptville, Ontario, whose teenage dream was to play in the NHL, suddenly resurface as a foot soldier for the first ever self-styled “caliphate” in the modern history of the Middle East? This is…
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On May 21st 2016 at 6am, Mohammad Azam’s family lost one of its members and sole economic provider. Mohammad was killed in a drone strike while innocently performing his job as a taxi driver. His passenger, and the target of a CIA executed…
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With the United Kingdom reeling from the bewildering results of last month’s EU membership referendum, a concurrent re-examination of the European project is underway. Legitimately or not, what once seemed like an inevitable and unceasing…
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Shortly after the Brexit, the European Union’s already vacillating stability is challenged by a new threat: that of a victory of the populist right in Austria’s presidential elections. The second round of the presidential elections, on the…
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In the wake of Brexit, all is uncertain as the world scrambles for answers while scholars and pundits each advance their own explanations regarding this new world order and what a European Union without the United Kingdom would look like.…
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Dear England, where did it all go so wrong? First Brexit and then being eliminated from the Euro 2016 championship? We really have lost our way this week. Both managers have resigned, one from England and one from Downing Street. Both teams…
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“The feeling of marginalization is the engine. The feeling of being discriminated is the engine behind . But what has made us come out in huge numbers is the revolution in Tunisia, and the success of that revolution followed by the Egyptian…
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The 2016 Presidential elections cycle is an historical anomaly in American politics. From a record-setting seventeen Republican primary candidates to the most successful campaign led by a self-identified socialist candidate, there are few…
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France is currently in a poor political situation. Protests have broken out in major cities around the country regarding the labour law reform. The government plans to use Article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass the bill, despite the…
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By now, most Canadian politicos will have heard of or seen the debate about the oh-so controversial Bill C-14 or the Assisted Dying Bill, the trigger of the media-dubbed "elbowgate" incident in which an NDP MP (Ruth Ellen Brosseau) was…
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