Interview with Professor Mark Brawley: Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership
MIR Online interviewed Mark Brawley, Professor in the Political Science Department of McGill University, about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what it could mean for the global economy.
http://https://youtu.be/xdZZUX3E8AI
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A Tale of Two Clintons
As the primaries for the 2016 U.S. presidential election heat up, there is a single refrain that anybody supporting Hillary has learned and learned well: she’s got the experience. More specifically, she’s got the foreign policy experience.…
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The Pen and the Sword
We need to talk about journalists.
As our storytellers, they largely stay behind the camera—pen or smartphone in hand—distancing themselves from what is unfolding in front of them. But is this neutrality an accurate reflection of their…
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Clinton, Sanders and the Fight for Feminism
This post is off the topic of my usual blog (and again North American-centric) but it is one that I have recently given great thought to and thought that I should address my feelings about it here. Mind you, I write as a straight, white…
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Negotiating with the Schengen’s Gatekeeper: Turkey and the European Migrant Crisis
Europe is experiencing a migrant crisis of tremendous magnitude, the largest it has experienced since the Second World War. According to the International Organization for Migration, since 2011 4.6 million Syrians have fled their…
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Expat Elector Weekly Roundup #7
Here is the weekly roundup of the top five most important stories of the week in the US election as well as any upcoming local events here in Montreal or the surrounding area if you want to get involved with the election right here in…
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The Extent of Healthy Religious Freedom: A Compromise
In many countries such as Canada, the US, France, the UK and so on, religion falls under the upheld fundamental freedoms. In Canada and the US for example the freedom of religion and conscience includes the practice of one’s religion. Of…
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A Future for Israeli Democracy
On December 31, Israel’s education ministry confirmed that it had banned Dorit Rabinyan’s novel Borderlife from high school curriculums. The book, the winner of Israel’s prestigious Bernstein literary prize, recounts the love story of a…
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Untapped Potential: Iran’s Prospects Following Lifted Sanctions
January 15, 2016 marked a historic day in the eyes of many Iranians as international sanctions were lifted following the declaration that Tehran had complied with all terms of the nuclear deal. The absence of sanctions opens up a realm…
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The Good Corporation
In the oft-forgotten 1993 hit The Good Son, Macaulay Culkin stars as Henry Evans, a bright-eyed 12-year-old evildoer prone to torturing animals, orchestrating highway pileups, and luring his younger sister out onto to thin ice. In the end…
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