Should a Tragically Hip song have been played at a Pierre Poilievre event?
Paul Langlois, a guitarist for Canada’s The Tragically Hip, was more than unhappy when recently alerted via Twitter that his band’s music was heard at a Conservative campaign event with...
Why the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Putin has symbolic importance
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine and its supporters had been calling for charges against Putin since the outset of...
We can’t fight authoritarianism without understanding populism’s allure
Populists across the globe have had a rough couple of years.
Donald Trump in the United States, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Boris Johnson in the United Kingdom are no longer...
Iranian protesters are making demands in charters and bills of rights
It’s been six months since the latest spark ignited mass protests in Iran — the death of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa (Jina) Amini in morality police custody after she was arrested...
Northern Ontario needs more local post-secondary education — and the province’s funding
School and career pathways for youth who grow up in northern regions look very different than those of their peers who grow up in the larger urban and southern areas...