North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities: An Enduring Foreign Policy Concern For Biden’s Administration
The United States has yet to adopt a foreign policy stance towards North Korea that has led to a lasting agreement outlining the terms of their nuclear disarmament, despite this being a repeated concern for multiple past presidencies. Will…
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MIR Meets: Jennifer Pedraza
Host Berenice Collignon and Victoria Aponte sit down with Jennifer Pedraza, a Colombian student leader of the 2018 and 2019 nationwide protests for better public education. They discuss the student protests in recent years, Jennifer’s…
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Biden-Poutine : première épreuve de force
Une escalade des tensions aux frontières russo-ukrainiennes pourrait donner à Biden l’opportunité qu’il cherche pour faire de la Russie de nouveau l’ennemi commun aux États-Unis et à l’Europe; en d’autres termes, enfin retrouver un terrain…
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Women’s Hard-Won Rights Are Under Legislative Threat
Despite a few exceptions, 2021 to date has been a year of legislative backlash to women’s rights, repealing many of the hard-won successes achieved in recent years.
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Hostage Diplomacy: The Canada-China Prisoner’s Dilemma
Over two years later, the Huawei executive and the two Michaels remain stranded in ongoing legal proceedings in one another’s home countries, a situation dubbed “hostage diplomacy” by Canada’s Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
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Le capharnaüm libanais
L’incapacité du système judiciaire à expliquer les circonstances précises du drame et le manque de transparence quant aux procédures d’investigation et d’interrogation des suspects laissent persister le doute quant à la résolution de…
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Spotlight: Fiscal Stimulus and the Worth of Every Dollar Spent
This week on Spotlight, host Naomi Shi sits down with MIR Writer of the Week, Grace Parish, to unpack the instrument of financial stimulus and discuss why it has proven to be both crucial and contentious to restoring economic stability at!-->…
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Japan’s Nuclear Question: The Impossible Implementation of a Necessary Program
It seems that nuclear power production, while extremely beneficial if handled properly, is nearly impossible to scale up significantly, at least in the short term. And so the political dilemma remains: should the Japanese government pursue…
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Listen to Your Mother: Reflecting on Climate Activism Before COVID-19
On September 27th 2019, tens of thousands of Montrealers, joined by Greta Thunberg, took to the streets to protest Climate Change.
In what was described by Mayor Valerie LaPlante as the city’s biggest protest to date,…
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The State of the Unions: What the Bessemer Union Drive Means for The Future of Organized Labour
While the Bessemer union drive signified a potential turning point for organized labour in the US, Amazon’s robust anti-union campaign marks a continuation of the impunity with which corporate America’s standard union-busting playbook is…
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