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Canadian policymakers should avoid handling Trump 2.0 like another pandemic
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by Kevin Quigley, Scholarly Director of the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Dalhousie University
5h ago
During Donald Trump’s second presidency, both federal and provincial governments should reflect on their recent experiences handling the COVID-19 pandemic and the dangers of being adaptive ..read more
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Psychoanalysis explains why Donald Trump is taunting Canada and ‘Governor Justin Trudeau’
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by Gavin Fridell, Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University, Ilan Kapoor, Professor, Psychoanalytic Theory/Politics, York University, Canada
5h ago
Donald Trump’s heavy-handed populist trade policies are more about irrational desires than sound politics or economics ..read more
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Canada’s holiday tax break will have winners and losers — here’s what you need to know
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by Shahidul Islam, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science, MacEwan University, Subhadip Ghosh, Assistant Professor in Decision Sciences, School of Business, MacEwan University
14h ago
While the tax break will indeed put more money into consumers’ pockets as the government has claimed, whether it will actually ease inflationary pressure is questionable ..read more
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Why the fall of Bashar al-Assad is unlikely to lead to peace in Syria
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by James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
1d ago
Whatever happens now in the aftermath of the fall of the Syrian dictatorship isn’t likely to return stability to Syria. The continued displacement and suffering of the Syrian people is probable ..read more
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Trump’s demonization of asylum-seekers undermines global protections — will Canada be complicit?
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by Laura Madokoro, Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton University
3d ago
Refugee protections, including the right to seek asylum, exist today precisely because states failed refugees and migrants previously, especially Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany ..read more
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How India’s Hindu nationalist rhetoric played a role in the violence at a Canadian temple
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by Sheetala Bhat, Assistant Professor, Department of English, York University, Canada
5d ago
The phrase ‘batenge toh katenge’ is a call to violence, not a call for unity, and therefore needs to be understood in terms of how rabid Hindu nationalism is covered and investigated in Canada ..read more
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White U.S. citizens once flooded into Indian Territory, prompting calls for mass deportations
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by Russell Cobb, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Alberta
1w ago
Conservatives say the U.S. immigration system is broken, but it was never fixed. More than 100 years ago, white migrants invaded Indigenous territory — but they had the power to change laws ..read more
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Do you know what populism is? Research suggests most don’t, but some view it with disdain anyway
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by Andrea Wagner, Associate Professor, Political Science, MacEwan University, Anna Brigevich, Associate Professor of European Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1w ago
People in Canada, the United States, Italy and France have very different perceptions of what populism is. Here’s why it’s important ..read more
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Alberta’s proposed Fairness and Safety in Sport Act is anything but fair
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by Celeste Pang, Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University, Gio Dolcecore, Assistant Professor, Social Work, Mount Royal University, Marty Clark, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Health and Physical Education, Mount Royal University
1w ago
Proposed legislation in Alberta could violate fundamental freedoms and endanger the rights of transgender people in the province ..read more
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A Trump cabinet full of alleged sexual predators? Here’s why it makes perfect sense
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by Jennifer L. Berdahl, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
1w ago
The ncoming U.S. president and his potential cabinet share a track record of sexual abuse allegations and cover-ups. The characteristics that accompany such behaviour don’t bode well for the world ..read more
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