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“The greatest resource we have in this country… is the children… We will have this journey together for as long as the rivers run, as long as the grass grows, and as long as the sun shines. That is our commitment to each other, and I am…
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The benefits of the corporatised university go to two groups of people: high level administrators and corporate investors. Professors, whether full time or adjunct, are overworked and underpaid, and students are made to pick up the tab for…
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When the Nürnberg and Tokyo trials held Goering and Tojo to the stand, they were not only sentencing select criminals, but more importantly an entire ideology. The Nazi and Imperial Japanese regime were tried in a system of moral values…
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I spent this past week in Edmonton, at the party convention for the New Democratic Party of Canada. After the smoke subsided and the convention was adjourned, the NDP underwent a significant change. The act of deposing Thomas Mulcair as…
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Chances are that if you come across the term “failed state” you will find the five countries that you would expect to find, contrasted to a couple polar opposites like Finland. If there’s more than a handful of countries named, it is…
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U.S. foreign policy has slipped into a bombing malaise. The current strategy against ISIS of intermittent airstrikes with very little idea of which resistance groups we’re meant to be supporting on the ground hasn't been working. But every…
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Eyes for only EU?  In January, two years before the scheduled end of his term, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić insisted on calling for early parliamentary elections. Vučić has attempted to legitimize this call by attributing …
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In 2016, two icons finally clashed on the big screen. The Dark Knight of Gotham met the Son of Krypton in a battle in the newly released Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. The film features a clash between two superheroes through which…
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On March 23rd, McGill University Principal Suzanne Fortier issued a statement that shocked many within the McGill community. Through an email to university faculty and students, Principal Fortier relayed the Board of Governors’ decision to…
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Political polarization – the vast and growing gap between liberals and conservatives – is a defining feature of American politics. But Congress might be doing a better job of representing the public than voters care to admit. According…
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