Reports of widespread incidences of territorial violence and land-based conflict in the developing world saturate international news. However, one form of land violence, the commercial acquisition of lands belonging to […]
A stoic yet flamboyant man, President Chavez of Venezuela courageously fought cancer until his death on March 5th, 2013. Born on July 28th, 1954 in Sabaneta, he joined the Venezuelan […]
“‘All of this is for you. We die for nothing.’” Samantha Nutt, a professor at the University of Toronto, one of Canada’s 25 leading activists named by the Globe and […]
Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act – this is the title of Bill C-31 introduced by Canadian Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney, which received royal assent on June 28th 2012. The bill introduced several […]
Part Three: Things to Think About Marketing and education have a pervasive influence on how both men and women view contraception. The women that were interviewed were aware of the […]
Part Two: The Men Unlike the women, the men all stated that they currently used a form of contraception: condoms. They had differing opinions when I asked if they would […]
Part One: The Women A few weeks ago, I was scanning the news when an article caught my eye. The article detailed a process called RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm […]
Indigenous communities in Latin America have suffered an especially oppressive history of dispossession and exploitation. Only the source of oppression has changed: if ‘indios’ were once enslaved to ‘latifundistas’, they […]
A city government safe so stuffed with cash that it couldn’t close? A city’s Senior Engineer slyly taking tropical vacations and receiving numerous bottles of wine in his office? These […]
In the past few decades, Singapore has received considerable praise for its social and economic policies. According to the Council on Foreign Relations,“conventional wisdom has held that economic growth will […]
