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Political Corner: World leaders can’t continue to shrug off wildfires while courting Big Coal

Peak Web January 26, 2020

By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate Last year, the world watched as forest fires in the Amazon led to some of the worst environmental damage the world has seen in recent decades. Throughout all of the devastation, there was a hope through multinational cooperation that we would never have to witness destruction on that level again. Yet less that a year later, Australia is battling approximately 135 separate bushfires in its southeast, including one “megafire.” The bushfires did not come out of nowhere. Although Australia experiences annual seasonal bushfires, the fires this year are larger, more numerous, and subsequently harder to deal…

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Resources for Australian bushfire relief

Peak Web January 21, 2020

By: Kelly Chia, Features Editor As of the time this article is being written, 10.7 million hectares have been burnt in Australia. The Guardian reports that 1,700 homes have been lost, and 23 people have died due to the bushfires…

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World News Beats

Peak Web September 1, 2018

Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate   Florida shooting leaves three dead An armed individual killed two people before turning the handgun on himself at a video game event in Jacksonville, Florida. 11 others were injured, nine of them by gunfire.…

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World News Beat

EIC September 15, 2017

USA – Hurricane devastates Florida Keys Hurricane Irma has left millions of people without access to power, fresh water, and gasoline and virtually flattened communities. In the Florida Keys, where Irma made landfall as a Category 4 storm, approximately 25%…

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It’s been a whirlwind year, but the dream isn’t over for PUP

EIC November 21, 2016

This has been a big year for Toronto-based punk band PUP. Their second album — The Dream is Over — was released in May, and made the shortlist for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize. If that already wasn’t enough for…

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Get out of your own head by getting out of the country

EIC March 25, 2016

My favourite part of travelling long distances and getting to stay a while is that I can redefine myself. We live in a culture of self-improvement. Faith, politics, diets, exercise, New Year’s resolutions. . . are all ways we are…

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Canada isn’t ready for a borderless Commonwealth

EIC November 16, 2015

Applying for a student visa is one of most godawful things I’ve ever done. The process is so bogged down by bureaucracy it’s a miracle anyone ever gets to study abroad. And after my exchange to France, my own personal…

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