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China’s coal burning contributes a significant amount of the total CO2 and greenhouse gases in the air, but its government claims to be working towards reducing its emissions. Marietta Armanyous looks at whether China is actually making efforts to change its impact on climate change from a negative to positive one.
Civilians in Yemen are suffering from a severe humanitarian crisis but have drawn little public attention. Farah Bogani addresses the complicity of Western powers in fuelling the conflict in Yemen.
On January 3 2016, Revolting, a BBC 2 sketch-comedy show, released an online skit called, “The Real Housewives of ISIS.” The skit introduces four wives of ISIS fighters, fulfilling their duty as “average” housewives. One scene shows two women awkwardly wearing the same suicide vest. Another depicts a woman chained to her oven, excited Read More…
The arms business is making a killing in the Middle East as countries all over the world are scrambling to get in on the action. Canada is no exception.
Post-truth was named Word of the Year in 2016. Ashley McIntyre looks at how the rise of non-traditional news sources and personal opinions are overruling the truth.
Will protests against the Kinder Morgan Expansion become Canada’s ‘Standing Rock’? In this article, Juthika Hasan explores how the environmental and First Nations reaction to the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion Project could echo the ‘Standing Rock’ protests in the United States.
Canada has been criticized for not contributing enough money to international defence, but do defence expenditures truly reflect Canada’s contribution.
Dans la troisième partie d’une serie de trois podcasts sur la politique dans le monde Francophone, Charlotte Le Vay, Charlotte Provost, et Megane Visette discutent de la montée du populisme dans la France d’aujourd’ui.
A letter penned by over a dozen Nobel laureates on December 29 compared the ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar to the Rwandan genocide, and condemned the lack of action by Aung San Suu Kyi. Nabil Bhatia unpacks Myanmar’s ethno-religious conflict and provides a historical overview of the plight of the Rohingya.
Listen as Magdalena Surma and Michele Di Leo provide advice to those interested in pursuing an internship at the NATO Association of Canada.