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Hamish and Jo’s Adventures in France Part 6: A fruitful February
March 16, 2019By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga As it turns out, February on the French Riviera is pretty neat given that February is typically a boring filler month with dreary weather and only 28 days — bringing into question why we pay a full month’s rent… Anyways, Hamish and Jozsef here, once again reporting live from the quaint town of Menton, France where the Science Po campus we attend is. Because of the French university schedule’s system, February marked our first full week of classes. Six classes to be exact, and no, we haven’t transferred to engineering. The two of us…
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Hamish and Jo’s adventures in France Part 3: Adulthood is harder in France
November 28, 2018By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga Welcome back to another episode of “Jo and Hamish’s life in Menton, the most South-Eastern town in all of France.” For those of you reading this column for the very first time, here is…
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Hamish and Jo’s adventures in France: Still no schoolwork, but a new continent!
November 2, 2018By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga Much has changed since our last update. For starters, we have not cut our hair in several months. In fact, it seems we have embraced the nomadic ways of expert travellers by growing it…
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Hamish and Jo’s Adventures in France: Welcome to Menton
October 10, 2018By: Hamish Clinton and Jozsef Varga Imagine heavily armed French border patrol officers chasing you off a train, demanding that you show them your papers . . . Well, we don’t have to! Because that was us only a handful of…
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World News Beats
September 9, 2018Written by: Kelly Grounds, SFU Student “Scallop War” breaks out between France and the UK An incident in which 35 French fishing boats chased five UK ones out of the Baie de Seine has been dubbed the “Scallop War.”…
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July 23, 2018Written by: Trevor Steele, Peak Associate Google fined record amount The European Union (EU) has imposed its largest ever fine (4.34 billion euro), on Google. According to the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, “Google engaged in illegal practices to…
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July 7, 2018Written by: Trevor Steele, Peak Associate Erdogan re-elected in Turkey Incumbent Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AK) party won a majority in both the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Turkey on June 24, though…
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October 4, 2017By: Dilpreet Tatla SPAIN — Spanish police intervene as Catalans hold independence poll More than 760 people have been injured after Spanish police attempted to stop Catalans from voting in an illegal independence referendum earlier this week. There have been ongoing…
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World News Beat: French Election Edition
May 7, 2017Today, May 7, France will pick from two candidates to elect their new president. Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National Party, has run on promises to eliminate the euro and reinstate the franc, follow the United Kingdom in…
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May 6, 2017By: Gabrielle McLaren FRANCE – French elections move on to the second round The first round of votes in the French presidential election were held on April 23. As no candidate won the majority of the vote, the two top…
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