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, Read more
human rights affairs Biden Acknowledges Armenian Genocide In the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was on the brink of collapse, breeding skepticism stemming from the loyalty of the eastern Christian Armenians’ loyalty. During the first World War, the young Turk began engaging in deportations and mass killings of the Armenian people. Read more
human rights affairs Why Canadian Rights Aren't Guaranteed Under Canada’s current political system and climate, none of its citizens’ rights and freedoms are guaranteed. This very idea is built into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Read more
human rights affairs Hockey Culture is Still Homophobic Earlier this year, Yanic Duplessis–a prospect for the Voltigeurs de Drummondville in the QMJHL–came out as gay. In an ideal world, this would be a non-story, so why is it such a notable event? Read more
Death Penalty The Case Against the Death Penalty 53 countries across the globe still have capital punishment in place. What’s more, in recent years, polls from the populations of various countries including Canada and the United Kingdom have illustrated a desire for reinstating the death penalty Read more
Yemen The Yemen Crisis - Worst in the World With stolen childhood, a lost generation and an uncertain future, the children of Yemen are born into an intractable political, military, and humanitarian crises. Read more
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 Read more
pakistan How is the Pakistani Government Encroaching on its Citizens’ Freedom of Speech? News of Journalist Bilal Farooqi being detained in a jail in the southern city of Karachi, Pakistan was recently unveiled. Farooqi was captured by police officers in his own home Read more
