Browsing Category
Regions
A Year After the Umbrella Revolution: Glancing at Hong…
This time last year, Hong Kong shocked the world with yellow umbrellas, calling for a genuine universal suffrage.…
How ISIS and Sunni Rage Remade the Middle East
The Bush White House’s decision to invade Iraq, overthrow Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist dictatorship and…
How Moscow Will Lose Ankara
On September 30, President Vladimir Putin stunned the international community with the deployment of Russian…
South China Sea Crisis and Intensifying US-Chinese…
The most recent talks at the 14th annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a security forum attended by governments from…
The Foreshadowed and the Forgotten
Refugees in far-away lands are splashed across daily Canadian life, and yet the homegrown nightmare of missing…
Insight into a Humanitarian Crisis: The Ebola Outbreak
West Africa entered the world stage in March of 2014 with the deadly outbreak of Ebola virus disease, or…
The Challenge of Enforcement: New Laws in New Lands
If you’ve read my last posts on the TPP, you will have noted that one of the things that I’ve outlined that the…
Corbyn’s UK and Foreign Policy – Rational or…
Jeremy Corbyn, the quiet, haphazard and dishevelled Cinderella of British politics, has been dominating the news in…
Why the TPP is Dangerous: Understanding the Consequences…
On October 5th, the final draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was agreed upon by twelve nations,…
Explaining the Refugee Crisis: The Failure and Triumph…
Last Friday evening, a collaboration of groups lead by the McGill Syrian Students Association put on an event…
Interpreting Treaty Rights: Recognizing the Indigenous…
More than 150 years of disputes over treaty interpretations between the Indigenous populations and federal…
The Candidates on Marijuana Legalization: Canadian…
MIR Online interviewed candidates and party representatives in the Ville Marie - Île des Soeurs - Le Sud Ouest…