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Appeals court ruling grants Donald Trump broad powers to deploy troops to American cities
Residents of Los Angeles will need to get used to federally controlled National Guard troops operating on their streets. Due to a ruling from an appeals court on June 19, United States President Donal
June 24, 2025 | 10:11 am
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Misogyny has become a political strategy — here’s how the pandemic helped make it happen
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more overt forms of gendered hate have jumped from obscure internet forums into the mainstream, shaping culture and policy. Social media doesn’t just reflect sexist, anti-
June 20, 2025 | 9:35 am
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The tightening of Canada’s asylum laws was an inevitability
The first substantive legislative initiative from Mark Carney’s government, Bill C-2, has passed...opinion piece by Michael Barutciski, a professor at York University’s Glendon School of Public and In
June 6, 2025 | 10:14 am
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Why Canada should apply labour protections to the rental housing sector
Gregor Robertson, Canada’s new housing minister, was likely tapped for the job on the basis of his decade as Vancouver’s mayor, where he introduced zoning changes, incentives for rental construction a
June 4, 2025 | 3:02 pm
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Experimenting with generative AI to kibbitz and futz towards more inclusive futures
What does it mean to think, act and work as a Jewish professor when human freedoms are under siege and authoritarian power gains ground? And how can we draw on our Jewish identities to navigate the sw
June 2, 2025 | 3:07 pm