Fossil Fuels: Rhetoric vs. Reality
When prompted, most people will agree that global warming is an issue that needs to be tackled but how the world should go about fixing it still lacks a realistic answer. Only about 11% of the world-marketed energy is produced by renewable…
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Rethinking Humanitarian Interventionism
If a single phrase was chosen to describe the past decade, it would be ‘humanitarian intervention.’ Military forces of the global North - here meaning states adhering to Western norms of neoliberalism and humanitarianism, led mostly by…
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Detroit: A Tale of Two Cities
“The Motor City is burning, Ain’t nothing in the world I can do’’
John Lee Hooker sang these lines in 1967, as race riots enflamed East Jefferson. Formerly blossoming Detroit, where Hooker had made his name as a young jazz artist, was…
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Why can’t Japan join the Chinese ‘New Silk Road’?
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member states. APEC seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to a number of meetings that are…
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The Party-People Divide
After watching mainstream media coverage of the recent U.S. midterm elections, anyone with even a cursory knowledge of politics was likely convinced of two things: (1) The Democratic Party is in turmoil and (2) Republicans capitalised on…
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Beyond the Legislature: Female Representation at Home and Abroad
In the past 16 months, Canada has held six provincial/territorial elections in the provinces of British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick as well as the territory of Nunavut. These elections resulted in two female…
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Whose to save the Internet?
Protests and debates on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s net neutrality proposal have gained momentum in the United States. The FCC established rules in 2010 endorsing principle elements of net neutrality; they demand…
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Weekly Roundup: Past, Present, and Future
Qatar. Ebola. Unions. Global warming. Putin. Separatism. These words have graced front pages and the six o’clock news more than once over the past few months and you certainly don’t have to be a politician or international relations major…
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The Last Straw: Federal Scientists and Professionals’ Union against Harper
The union representing scientists and professionals serving in the federal public service dropped their traditionally nonpartisan stance to actively campaign against Prime Minister Steven Harper and the Conservatives on November 7th this…
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Ebola: Bilan & Avenir
À l’heure où le Libéria annonce la fin de l’état d’urgence sur l'Ebola et la fin de l’épidémie au sein de la RDC est déclarée par ses autorités, il semble que le combat contre le virus porte enfin ses fruits.
L’épidémie qui a vu le jour…
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