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Sunday, March 28, 2021
Jami E McElrea India is one of the fastest growing economies, yet corruption is rampant. More than 50% of Indians have bribed government officials in 2019. In 2010 transparency international ranked India 87th out of 178 countries. Corruption has a huge economic and social cost in India and has created a system... More
Introduction by Ghadah Alrasheed With the outbreak of COVID-19, life feels surreal and strange as our sheltered world has been overbalanced. The ensuing circumstances, however, have also thrown into sharp relief social inequality, inefficient governance and racial disparity as we have seen clearly who had been the most impacted by COVID-19... More
Sunday, February 21, 2021
By Keya Shirali At the time I began synthesizing my research for writing up this article about some of the media attention and government retaliation the Indian farmers’ protest movement has garnered, it was still mid-December 2020. Now in the midst of February 2021, there has been an influx of rapidly developing information and... More
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
By Jiaming Pan Are you stressed? Self-doubting? Anxious? To all the international students, new graduates, and people who are looking for a job during the pandemic: All your efforts will pay off in the end. It has been over three years since I first came to this beautiful land – Canada. About three... More
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Listen to the first episode of the new podcast Pandemic Personally, in which Aidan Battley meets with people who tell unique and unconventional stories to inspire us in the middle of a pandemic. Click to listen to “Pandemic Personally”: Aidan Battley is a fourth-year Bachelor of Communications and Media Studies student at... More
Friday, January 15, 2021
By Molly Dawe When the pandemic first began, many were quick to remark that we’re all in the same boat, that we’re all in this together. Though the intent of these notions may be in the right place, their impact surely isn’t. Saying that we are all in the same boat dismisses the... More
Monday, November 16, 2020
By Rui Wang Since the coronavirus hit Canada, the education system is experiencing a large-scale transformation, from in-class to online learning. COVID-19 has also transformed the student experience, from how we play, to how we learn. Everyone is forced to keep social distance by self-isolating at home. As the university closed the physical... More
Sunday, October 4, 2020
By Molly Dawe While most folks seem eager to sing praise about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I think we need to temper our uncritical love and admiration with a few historical truths about our feminist icon. Have we already forgotten that she called Colin Kaepernick’s protest “dumb and disrespectful” or that she voted in favor... More
Calista Davis is a university student with two minimum wage jobs and an immense amount of debt. In this podcast, she speaks about her experience surviving through COVID_19. When the world has pointed the finger at the people in their twenties for spreading the disease, young people such as Calista have actually had no... More
Sunday, September 27, 2020
by Carolyn Ramzy To Nadim, my little Egyptian-American-Canadian boy, I write this to you in the year an officer stepped on George Floyd’s neck for 8:43 minutes and murdered him. After hearing the news, you turned to me and asked: “Will an officer stand on my neck because I am brown?” At six, it... More
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Following Covid-19, post-secondary institutions have found themselves in a race to adapt to COVID's rippling impact through their educational systems. The new changes have induced many uncertainties and challenges for students. Through her position as the VP Community Engagement for CUSA at Carleton University, Morgan Mckeen shares in this podcast... More
Friday, September 25, 2020
By Ghadah Alrasheed “If there are people who still believe we don’t belong here, who doesn’t like ice cream”? Layla, a journalist and newcomer from Aleppo, embarks on making booza, an Arabic type of ice cream, to support her family and overcome the hostility they face from the conservative community of Red River... More
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