Explaining the Refugee Crisis: The Failure and Triumph of Collective Memory
Last Friday evening, a collaboration of groups lead by the McGill Syrian Students Association put on an event titled "Knocking on Europe's doors: Syrian Refugees in the Worst Humanitarian Crisis of our Time". This event brought together…
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Interpreting Treaty Rights: Recognizing the Indigenous Perspective
More than 150 years of disputes over treaty interpretations between the Indigenous populations and federal government have critically characterized Canada’s history. Such conflicts are still making headlines today, as the Indigenous …
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The Candidates on Marijuana Legalization: Canadian Federal Elections 2015
MIR Online interviewed candidates and party representatives in the Ville Marie - Île des Soeurs - Le Sud Ouest riding in order to help students make informed voting decisions. In this video, the candidates discuss their party's national…
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The Candidates on Aboriginal Issues: Canadian Federal Elections 2015
MIR Online interviewed candidates and party representatives in the Ville Marie - Île des Soeurs - Le Sud Ouest riding in order to help students make informed voting decisions. In this video, the candidates discuss their party's First…
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The Candidates on Bill C-51: Canadian Federal Elections 2015
MIR Online interviewed candidates and party representatives in the Ville Marie - Île des Soeurs - Le Sud Ouest riding in order to help students make informed voting decisions. In this video, the candidates discuss their party's national…
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Expat Elector Weekly Roundup #1
This marks my first of what will hopefully be many weekly roundups. I hope to write a post every Sunday summing up the top five most important stories of the week (in my opinion, of course) in the US election as well as any upcoming local…
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Niqab Bans: 21st Century Islamophobia or Harper Election Distraction?
Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, Canada saw 3.6 million Canadians go to the ballots to cast their early votes.1 Out of those 3.6 million, a select few headed to the polls wearing clown masks, ski masks, or potato sacks over their…
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TO: We, The People of the United States of America RE: RE: RE: Mass Shootings
So. It’s happened again.
In the words of President Obama, “There’s been another mass shooting in America” (whitehouse.gov).
In the great nation of freedom, we have once again lost nine of our own at the hands of our own. Nine dead at…
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Hey Pope Francis – Let’s Talk about Abortion
Pope Francis’ recent historic US visit took the country by storm, resulting in an irrepressible Pope-Mania. The visit not only made international headlines, but inspired supporters to flock to Washington D.C, New York City and Philadelphia…
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Trouble in the Country of Free Trade: Critics of the TPP
With a little over a year to go till election day, the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) has also proven to be a relatively salient issue in another North American state during their election cycle: the United States.
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