Category: News

  • Contextualizing the Renewed Genocide in Darfur

    By Tom Shacklock For over one year, the people of Sudan have suffered from a war that has been largely ignored by the international community. The conflict started in April 2023 as a power struggle between military generals. However, it has also triggered a campaign of brutal violence and potential ethnic cleansing and genocide against…

  • 20 Years On: A Gen-Z Perspective on the 9/11 Attacks

    Though I wasn’t alive to witness the Twin Towers collapse on live television, the grotesque images of grey smoke and dust blanketing the streets of New York City, of men and women jumping to their deaths in favor of a quicker and more painless end, and of both planes piercing the foundations of the American…

  • Indigenous Children Remains Force Canada to Reconsider Its Treatment of the Indigenous Population

    On May 27, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported finding the remains of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamploops, British Columbia. Originally constructed to force Indigenous children to assimilate into Western-centric, white culture, the Canadian residential school system idea pulled children from their homes, subjecting them to physical, emotional and…

  • Burkina Faso Crisis Warrants International Aid

    Since 2016, the Group for Support of Muslims (JNIM), the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) and Ansarul Islam have terrorized civilians in Burkina Faso for no clear reason. The clashing militias and complex relationships between different actors is responsible for further destabilizing and the escalation of violence and insurgency in the region. In…