MIR Meets: Katia Houle
In this episode of MIR Meets, Editor-in-Chief Charles Lepage talks with Katia Houle, Montrealer gone to Shanghai to work as an analyst. They discuss their shared half-Chinese half-Quebecer identity as well as the developments of modern!-->…
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The Toxic Trajectory of the #PickMeGirl Trend
The Pick-Me Girl trend has turned into yet another way to police female behaviour. Our words, appearance, and interests are placed under a critical pseudo-feminist lens and once again shamed, this time for not being good enough feminists.…
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The Biggest Battle in American Gun Reform
With the core belief that accessibility to guns is synonymous with American freedom, any top-down approach to force further regulations will do little to change the underlying psychology of wide-ranging views on the cause and solutions to…
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Génération COVID-19 : une jeunesse isolée mais solidaire
« Monsieur le Président, à dix neuf ans, j’ai l’impression d'être morte », pouvait-on lire dans la lettre ouverte de Heïdi, étudiante à Sciences Po Lyon, en janvier dernier. Depuis plusieurs mois, les jeunes se retrouvent comme les oubliés…
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L’Épopée du Canal de Suez
« Un jour, on était arrivé à une ville appelée Port-Saïd. Tous les pavillons d’Europe flottaient dessus au bout de longues hampes, lui donnant un air de Babel en fête, et des sables miroitants l’entouraient comme une mer. Avec un bruit…
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North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities: An Enduring Foreign Policy Concern For Biden’s Administration
The United States has yet to adopt a foreign policy stance towards North Korea that has led to a lasting agreement outlining the terms of their nuclear disarmament, despite this being a repeated concern for multiple past presidencies. Will…
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MIR Meets: Jennifer Pedraza
Host Berenice Collignon and Victoria Aponte sit down with Jennifer Pedraza, a Colombian student leader of the 2018 and 2019 nationwide protests for better public education. They discuss the student protests in recent years, Jennifer’s…
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Biden-Poutine : première épreuve de force
Une escalade des tensions aux frontières russo-ukrainiennes pourrait donner à Biden l’opportunité qu’il cherche pour faire de la Russie de nouveau l’ennemi commun aux États-Unis et à l’Europe; en d’autres termes, enfin retrouver un terrain…
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Women’s Hard-Won Rights Are Under Legislative Threat
Despite a few exceptions, 2021 to date has been a year of legislative backlash to women’s rights, repealing many of the hard-won successes achieved in recent years.
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Hostage Diplomacy: The Canada-China Prisoner’s Dilemma
Over two years later, the Huawei executive and the two Michaels remain stranded in ongoing legal proceedings in one another’s home countries, a situation dubbed “hostage diplomacy” by Canada’s Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
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