Francesca Wallace

With the recent focus in global media on Shamima Begum, a 19 year old girl who left the United Kingdom in 2015 to join the Islamic State who has since attempted to re-enter the UK but saw her citizenship revoked; the side event on the…
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Progressive social change is a grand illusion that can be reduced to debates on the right of free speech. When aspiring to shift paradigms or resolve an issue, pursuing that right without regard for strategy or law might give attention to…
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Democratic elections have a nasty way of portraying troubling divides between voters. Specifically, by the end of 2016, we will have seen the true colours of those in the UK and the US. The Brexit referendum in June saw Britain leave…
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The NDP party, while historically significant to Canadian politics, has previously had to deal with the challenge of relating to many middle class and urban citizens, appearing as both rational and organized party, unlike other far left…
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More than 11 million people have been killed or forced to flee Syria due to the ongoing conflict and around 6.6 million are left behind. They are the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Syria. This article discusses why they chose to…
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Looking around, it appears that socialism may be on the rise in the western world. Socialism argues that it aids minorities and the lesser off, an example of which being women. Some far-left socialists use this to argue that their party…
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From a Western point of view, the recent use of drones to supplace human soldiers fighting terrorist groups in the Middle East induces nothing but relief. Their soldiers aren’t going to fight. When you spin drone warfare on its head,…
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On November 29th, the European Union (EU) signed a deal with Turkey regarding the waves of Syrian and other refugees entering Europe through Turkey and Greece. The deal, as declared by a “summit in…Brussels, drew Turkish and European…
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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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