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On September 30, President Vladimir Putin stunned the international community with the deployment of Russian armed forces in Syria. After nearly five years of supporting the faltering regime of Bashar al-Assad since the eruption of the…
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The most recent talks at the 14th annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a security forum attended by governments from Asian Pacific countries, have again brought forward the question of territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Islands, most…
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Refugees in far-away lands are splashed across daily Canadian life, and yet the homegrown nightmare of missing Canadian aboriginal women has barely been told. The question is, why? To answer this question, one first needs to compare…
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West Africa entered the world stage in March of 2014 with the deadly outbreak of Ebola virus disease, or EVD. The scope of the virus was greatly underestimated and the international community heavily invested in the containment,…
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If you’ve read my last posts on the TPP, you will have noted that one of the things that I’ve outlined that the deal promises is that all countries “adopt and maintain in their laws and practices the fundamental labour rights as recognized…
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It's been an interesting 24 hours for those following the 2016 elections.
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Jeremy Corbyn, the quiet, haphazard and dishevelled Cinderella of British politics, has been dominating the news in the UK ever since his unforeseen sponsorship to run in the Labour leader elections. Since that day, he has gone on to…
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On October 5th, the final draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was agreed upon by twelve nations, finalizing the framework for a free trade bloc that has been under discussion since 2008. The deal would do a number of things,…
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