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Political Corner: Romina Ashrafi’s murder in Iran could have been prevented
June 28, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate In late May of this year, Romina Ashrafi, age 14, ran away from her home in Iran to be with her boyfriend. The decision came after Ashrafi’s father objected to their marriage. After running away, the couple was intercepted and Ashrafi was sent home, despite telling the police that she feared for her life. Soon after returning home, she was attacked by her father in her bedroom and decapitated with a sickle. At the time that Ashrafi was murdered, children had minimal rights and protection in Iran. Juveniles could legally be executed, girls could be married…
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Political Corner: Political discourse should be focused on pandemic response, not opportunism
May 23, 2020By: Connor Stephenson, Peak Associate The Hall & Oates song “Out of Touch” is definitely not a reference to a certain subset of 21st century Canadian politicians, as the song was originally released in the 1980s. But if we ignore the…
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Political Corner: Heralding frontline nurses for working while pregnant hides systemic labour abuses in China
April 4, 2020By: Tianyi Wang, Graduate Student The World Health Organization declared that coronavirus was a global pandemic as of March 11. In addition to the increasing number of cases of viral infection, many social issues have been exposed during this extraordinary time that…
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Political Corner: Irish border negotiations need to be handled more delicately than Brexit was
February 25, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate Three years and two prime ministers later, the United Kingdom successfully left the European Union on January 31. The rest of the year is going to be filled with UK-EU free trade talks. These talks are…
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Political Corner: World leaders can’t continue to shrug off wildfires while courting Big Coal
January 26, 2020By: 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…
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Political Corner: Canada’s stance on the Rohingya genocide is all talk
January 14, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate In late August 2017, a genocide began against the Rohingya Muslim minority living in Myanmar. The catalyst for the genocide was an alleged terror attack carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army that resulted in…
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Political Corner: India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill is a horrific case of Islamophobia
January 5, 2020By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer Under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, the Hindu nationalist group Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has undergone a tremendous effort to institutionalise the persecution of Muslims in India. Further fulfilling this agenda, the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB)…
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The protests in Chile are yet another example of civil unrest due to rising inequality
November 15, 2019By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate It seems that the entire world is protesting right now. From Lebanon to Catalonia and Iraq to Pakistan, protests seemed to constantly erupt throughout October. One of the most prominent protests to emerge is the one…
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Political Corner: The withdrawal of US troops from Syria aids only ISIS
November 4, 2019By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate Since the beginning of October, US troops have been pulled from the northeast area of Syria. They were in the area providing support to the Syrian Kurds who have been fighting as part of the Global…
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Political Corner: The Polish elections present a teachable moment for left-wing opposition parties
October 27, 2019By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate With Canadian voters now recovering from our own election cycle, it is easy to forget about the politics of other countries and their potential repercussions. One example is Poland, which has also held parliamentary elections…
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