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The Canadian government drew criticism in February when it announced that Canada would be the only G-7 country to acquire millions of vaccines from COVAX's first distribution. In light of this controversy, it is worth better understanding…
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Sameer Zuberi, Kamal Khera, Niki Ashton, Rod Phillips, and Pierre Arcand are just a few members of federal and provincial parliaments who have stepped down from certain legislative roles due to public outrage at their recent international…
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Though it is hard to imagine why, tabula rasa, Canadians in the twenty-first century would choose to be governed by a constitutional monarchy, the forces of history and path dependence have made it today’s political reality.
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A silent phenomenon has been transforming employment in Canada for years: gig work.
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Although surely needed given the current political polarization in the United States, Biden’s goal of bipartisanship begs some serious questions regarding its feasibility.
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Navalny’s brush with death, subsequent return to Russia, and recent arrest have ignited protests as fierce as any Russia has seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This time, opposition figures have the opportunity to sow the seeds of…
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Social media has been an essential, privileged tool for Burmese grassroots activism in the wake of the coup. In the moments following Aung San Suu Kyi’s deposition from power, Burmese people took to social media platforms, mainly Facebook,…
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A bane of Canadian foreign policy has been its tendency to shy away from meaningful engagements in Africa, but its potential support for the newly launched AfCFTA is a unique entry point for strategic engagement with the continent.
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The free speech debate is important in more ways than one. As our modes of expression change, so must our thinking about what free speech does, or should, entail. At its heart, this conversation reveals a bigger problem: the absence of a…
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Under the radar of 2020’s headlining events, another unprecedented thing happened in the nation’s capital: on June 26th, the House of Representatives voted to make Washington, DC the 51st state of the American Union.
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