Rebekah Eunaah Craig

Rebekah is a student at Ryerson University majoring in History & Political Science. After her degree, Rebekah plans to attend law school. Currently, she is an executive, editor and journalist at YIP.

Executive Writing Team 14 posts

        
            sports
        
    Stop Sexualizing Women in Sports
            It is disappointing that women have been fighting for the right to have more options in their uniforms, and still the rules for the majority have not been changed. Uniform regulations should not make women feel self-conscious while playing sports...
        
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            current events
        
    Burying the Crimes of The Filthy Rich
            Jeffrey Epstein was a businessman, a convicted sex offender and a pedophile. He was notorious for having numerous connections and was friends with people in high places. Epstein was the type of man who made a lot of money and no one could quite pin-point the ways in which he made his income.
        
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            colonialism
        
    4 Ways the Canadian Government Perpetuates Colonialism
            Passed by the federal government in 1876, the Indian Act is a set of laws made to have control over Indigenous peoples in Canada; filled with assimilation policies meant to eliminate Indigenous culture and tear apart their social and political unicity.
        
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            human rights affairs
        
    Tragedies of Child Marriage: How will you help?
            The issue of child marriage is global.  Countries such as Niger, Central African Republic, and Chad have the most child marriages globally with over 60-70% of girls being married before the age of 18 and approximately 30% married before the age of 15.
        
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            activism
        
    Can Online Petitions Effect Change?
            Online petitions can be one of the best ways to impact policy changes. We’ve seen it many times even within this year alone, masses of people gathering together can influence change, and petitions add momentum.
        
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            human rights affairs
        
    An Introduction to Canadian Residential Schools
            Less than 25 years ago, residential schools were still active in Canada. Your grandparents, parents, siblings, or even you may have been alive to experience it if you were an Indigenous person in Canada.
        
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            Everydaylife
        
    Disney Lied: The Story of Matoaka
            Matoaka was her original name. She was born in 1596 in Werowocomoco, Virginia, daughter of Wahunsenacawh; chief of the Powhatan tribe. Her father often called her “Pocahontas” after her late mother whose name was Pocahontas meaning “playful one”.
        
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            political affairs
        
    Joe Biden Wins Presidency: Hope for a Brighter Future
            After long awaiting the results, Biden wins 20 electoral votes from Pennsylvania surpassing the 270 votes needed. The Democrats currently, as of Saturday, have 290 electoral votes, are tied with Republicans in the Senate race, and have a lead of 19 votes in the House.
        
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            human rights affairs
        
    Residential Schools: Child Experimentation
            Unfortunately, hunger and malnutrition did not begin or end with the experiments from 1942 to 1952. Ian Mosby, an award-winning Canadian historian, recounts stories of residential school survivors in saying, “They have said for a long time that, not only were they part of scientific experiments,
        
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            covid-19
        
    A Dual Crises: Homelessness During COVID-19
            Ontario has now reached the third wave of COVID-19 that has been heavily anticipated yet poorly prepared for and ultimately unable to avoid. Rules and instructions in the province of Ontario have been unclear, ineffective and inconsistent.
        
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            current affairs
        
    Monarchy Mayhem
            On March 7th 2021, Oprah conducted an interview with Megan Markle and Prince Harry giving continued insight into the twisted mechanism that is the British Monarchy.
        
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            racism
        
    Enough is Enough: Normalized Racism
            East Asians are being attacked and everyone is silent. There’s nothing new about racism towards Asians in North America but we have reached a point where it is being normalized and very few are speaking up about it.
        
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            covid-19
        
    COVID in the New Year
            There is hope that things will magically return to normal as we enter a New Year
and leave 2020 behind us, however, 2021 will most likely be not much different
        
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            human rights affairs
        
    The Sixties Scoop
            > “Genocide has taken place in a systematic, routine manner” 
– Justice Edwin Kimelman.

Less than 30 years ago, Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their
mothers and left in the Child
        
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