Ugly and Ignored: Toronto’s Homelessness Crisis
The McGill International Review is thrilled to present this article by Queen's University student Claire Parsons as a part of our collaborative exchange with the Queen's Observer.
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A City for Egypt’s Future, or Al-Sisi’s?
Six years ago, the Egyptian government announced they would construct a New Administrative Capital (NAC) in the desert east of Cairo. This development would be a key part of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s “Egypt Vision 2030”, the…
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Linguistic Decolonization? Exploring Kazakhstan’s Switch from the Cyrillic to Latin Alphabet
Kazakhstan, along with several other countries in the region, will continue to engage in a political tango with Russia, preserving their national interests, while simultaneously placating Putin to avoid any further geopolitical tension.
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Can Andrew Yang Become the Next Mayor of New York City?
A little over two months out from the New York City mayoral primary, previous presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is making a serious case to become the mayor of the city.
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Globalization’s Achilles Heels: the Precarious Links of Global Commerce and What it Means for Canada
As the world becomes even more interconnected, and as melting sea ice sadly opens more and more of the Arctic to shipping, global demand for alternative shipping routes will only grow stronger. The Ever Given fiasco gives pause to examine…
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MIR Meets: Katia Houle
In this episode of MIR Meets, Editor-in-Chief Charles Lepage talks with Katia Houle, Montrealer gone to Shanghai to work as an analyst. They discuss their shared half-Chinese half-Quebecer identity as well as the developments of modern!-->…
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The Toxic Trajectory of the #PickMeGirl Trend
The Pick-Me Girl trend has turned into yet another way to police female behaviour. Our words, appearance, and interests are placed under a critical pseudo-feminist lens and once again shamed, this time for not being good enough feminists.…
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The Biggest Battle in American Gun Reform
With the core belief that accessibility to guns is synonymous with American freedom, any top-down approach to force further regulations will do little to change the underlying psychology of wide-ranging views on the cause and solutions to…
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Génération COVID-19 : une jeunesse isolée mais solidaire
« Monsieur le Président, à dix neuf ans, j’ai l’impression d'être morte », pouvait-on lire dans la lettre ouverte de Heïdi, étudiante à Sciences Po Lyon, en janvier dernier. Depuis plusieurs mois, les jeunes se retrouvent comme les oubliés…
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L’Épopée du Canal de Suez
« Un jour, on était arrivé à une ville appelée Port-Saïd. Tous les pavillons d’Europe flottaient dessus au bout de longues hampes, lui donnant un air de Babel en fête, et des sables miroitants l’entouraient comme une mer. Avec un bruit…
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