Everydaylife Do we own our data? The power this software bestows on high-level officials and politicians is unprecedented. The advent of technology has allowed us to store our lives on a 6x3 mobile device. Therefore, it is not just our phones that are susceptible to this infringement but our whole lives. Read more
current events A Country, As A Peace Offering Many basic services and utilities are barely even functioning in reserves and quality of life is sometimes comparable to that of third world nations. Back in 2015, Canada has 159 boil-water advisories for reserves. Flash-forward to 2021 where over 32% of those advisories are still in place. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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”. Read more
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
