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Issue 45: Why everyone hates the mainstream media
Judgements about status are embedded in almost everything aspect of the news. To read the news is to be insulted -- which is why people are fleeing the…
Issue 15: Sourdough, Status, and Self-Isolation
From baking to home schooling and personal fitness routines, the pandemic is creating venues for status-seeking that will seriously exacerbate social…
Why Canada can't logistic
Canada is a modern and wealthy welfare state. So why is our pandemic response so consistently weak when it comes to everything except writing cheques?
Issue 21: A harm reduction approach to physical distancing
If we're in for months or even years of keeping away from one another, "stay at home" is not an option. We need to rethink how we make use of time and…
A “post-racial reckoning” international order? Confronting racism during a humanitarian crisis
George Floyd's murder inspired a "racial reckoning" whereby the world seemingly committed to anti-racism, so why are Black and Brown refugees of Ukraine…
Let's stop glorifying hustle culture
The damaging effects of chronic overworking requires more than self-care. We need a serious culture shift, and policies should include the right to…
Sorry Charles, Canada doesn't need you
With so many Canadian heroes to choose from, why put Charles on the money?
Before the bulldozers: The last-ditch efforts to save Hong Kong’s heritage
A human rights-based approach to heritage conservation would slow the disappearance of historic structures that tell the stories of the city of Hong…
Issue 20: We need a Plan B (Part 1)
If test, trace, and isolate is the best plan we have for getting us out of lockdown and back to something approaching normal life, then we need another…
How the International Community is Failing Ethiopia
Shweta Menon is a graduate student at the Max Bell School of Public Policy and is an Editor at The Bell.
What's next for Ghana's political duopoly?
Ghana's presidential elections reveal changing dynamics in the country — and a striking U.S. parallel
While the World Focuses on Ukraine, a Genocide in Ethiopia?
More than 5.2 million people in Tigray are in need of emergency assistance since the conflict began 15 months ago
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