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California depends on prison labour to deal with climate disasters — Canada must avoid a similar model
The use of prison labour in fighting wildfires caused by climate injustice is only an extension of this injustice and a continuation of indentured servitude.
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How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.
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Why Trinidad and Tobago artists are up in arms about the country’s attempt to ‘decolonise’ its coat of arms
"Supposedly, the drive behind it was to push forward decolonisation. That's a necessary and good thing. However, the way they went about it doesn't feel like decolonisation." ...
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Canada’s claim that it champions human rights is at odds with its mining practices
Despite its feminist ambitions, taking a closer look at Canada’s role in countries where it has significant mining interests reveals a more complex and nuanced image of Canada in the world.
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Online platforms risk becoming ideological echo chambers that undermine meaningful dialogue
The migrations of left-leaning users to Bluesky could deepen the divide with right-leaning users on X, and undermine cross-ideological discourse and democracy.
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Urban food gardens produce more than vegetables, they create bonds for young Capetonians – study
Urban agriculture takes many forms, among them community, school or rooftop gardens, commercial urban farms, and hydroponic or aquaponic systems. These activities have been shown to promote ...
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South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them.
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Reclaiming narratives: African storytelling as a path to justice and reparations
Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent through a lens of primitivism and inferiority. Such depictions served to ...
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Georgian government continues the purge, setting its sights on universities next
Universities are the latest target of Georgia's ruling party. Earlier in January, the Interior Ministry ordered the expulsion of 25 foreign nationals who had allegedly participated in anti-government ...
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Finding ‘Kape’: How Language Documentation helps us preserve an endangered language
Shiyue Wu, a member of Francesco Perono Cacciafoco’s research team at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), who is currently developing intensive fieldwork in Alor Island to document and ...
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Mémoire de l’Holocauste : le chef de l’ONU lance un nouveau plan de lutte contre l’antisémitisme
À l’occasion d’une cérémonie de commémoration des victimes de l'Holocauste, à New York, le Secrétaire général de l’ONU a annoncé, samedi, le lancement d’un nouveau Plan d’action pour renforcer la ...
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RD Congo : Les civils en danger face à l’avancée du M23 sur Goma
(Nairobi) – Les civils dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo sont exposés à un danger croissant alors que le groupe armé abusif M23, soutenu par les Forces de défense du Rwanda (FDR), avan ...