Brandon Taylor
Stop Putin now
EIC March 13, 2014Shortly after the Olympics were held in Sochi, Russia, Russian military forces invaded the small peninsula of Crimea, a southern region of the Ukraine, without any authorization or impetus beyond sheer hubris and opportunism. Since the Olympics, the spotlight directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin has grown much brighter on the international stage. He helped broker a peace deal with Syria, which only further entrenched the violent Assad regime, and has also orchestrated the most corrupt and expensive Winter Olympics, well, ever. With these actions escalating to a foreign invasion, the West's response has to be proportionate to Putin's brazen…
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Core values do not make a government
Peak Web February 24, 2013Principles are a much more valuable means of holding parties accountable By Brandon Taylr (University of British Columbia Okanagan) Illustration by Ben Buckley Mohammed Sheriffdeen’s Feb. 18 article, “What are ‘values’ anyway?” asks perhaps the most contentious question in modern…
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