Opinion | Why Canada Still Needs a New Oil Pipeline
The path forward for the Canadian government is clear: to secure long-term economic strength, it must throw its full support behind a new oil pipeline.
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Sanae Takaichi’s Premiership Is Unlikely to Close Japan’s Gender Gap
For Japan to close its gender gap, systemic change is necessary—something a woman prime minister alone cannot deliver.
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MIR Meets: Sonia Kgomo
Host Ava Francin sits down with Sonia Kgomo, a former Facebook content moderator and now organizer with African Tech Workers Rising, a UNI Global Union project. They discuss her work in union advocacy for fair labour conditions for digital…
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Blurring the Line: Is the Thailand-Cambodia Border Conflict More Than a Land Dispute?
Amid the recent intensification of the Cambodia-Thailand border conflict, another battle ignites: a "war of words" between citizens of the respective countries that places the decades-long bilateral relationship on thin ice.
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MIR Meets: Kevin Page
Host Theodore Yohalem Shouse sits down with economist Kevin Page, Canada’s inaugural parliamentary budget officer and current director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, to discuss the 2025 federal budget.
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Privées d’Internet par les talibans, les femmes afghanes sont condamnées au silence
La coupure d’Internet limite leur parole et renforce leur dépendance; elle légitime, sous couvert de religion, leur effacement de la sphère publique.
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Four More Prime Ministers Till Christmas? France’s Leadership Reaches a Breaking Point
French citizens are increasingly losing faith in their government’s capacity to govern and, in turn, in the strength of the Fifth Republic’s institutions.
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International Climate Change Rulings Show First Signs of Success
Advisory opinions on climate change published by the ICJ and IACtHR this summer are being employed in domestic litigation, providing a glimmer of hope for environmentalism in the Americas.
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Troubling Signs of Reemerging Authoritarianism in Syria
Post-Assad Syria is being rebuilt–seemingly intentionally–upon a controlled narrative that utilizes unresolved trauma and enforced gratitude to suppress nuance and consolidate power from within.
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How Iceland Can Navigate NATO’s New Five Per Cent Defence Commitment Without an Army
NATO’s smallest member is at a crossroads amid the alliance’s new spending commitments to defence.
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