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Immigration is shaping up to be a major issue in next year’s federal election and today in The Conversation Canada, Craig Damian Smith of the Munk Global Migration Lab at the University of Toronto gives us a preview of how that will likely play out. Anti-immigrant populism trades on two interrelated trends, he writes: “First, facts matter far less than voters’ feelings; second… scapegoating migrants pays off at the ballot box. ”
Canada has received kudos for taking a tough stand against Saudi Arabia’s detention of women’s human rights advocates. But Andrew Thompson of the University of Waterloo looks at Canada’s own complicated history with international human rights law.
And finally....Earlier this summer, a Russian research/cruise ship ran aground in the Arctic. Luckily, there were no injuries or environmental damage. Edward Struzik of Queen’s University was on the ship and looks into the many problems facing increased shipping in the Arctic.
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An asylum-seeker saying he’s from Eritrea is confronted by an RCMP officer as he crosses the border into Canada from the United States on Aug. 21 near Champlain, N.Y. Canadians have false beliefs about the so-called migration crisis, and politicians are capitalizing on it.
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Craig Damian Smith, University of Toronto
Canada's opposition Conservatives are borrowing from European populists in stoking fears about asylum-seekers and migrants. Here's why that's so dangerous.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in Ottawa in June 2018. A United Nations housing watchdog has criticized the Liberals over what it sees as their about-face on a promise to put a human rights lens on its housing strategy.
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Andrew Thompson, University of Waterloo
If the liberal international order is to survive, countries like Canada will need to defend international human rights law.
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The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent sails past a iceberg in Lancaster Sound in 2008.
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Edward Struzik, Queen's University, Ontario
New shipping opportunities are opening up in the Arctic as sea ice continues to recede. But travel is still dangerous and the region isn't equipped to deal with more vessel traffic.
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Armida L. M. van Rij, King's College London
Saudi Arabia gets far more out of being close with the UK than vice versa.
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Culture + Society
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Matthew Delmont, Arizona State University
The career arc of Nichelle Nichols – the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring role on TV – shows how diverse casting can have as much of an impact off the screen as it does on it.
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Health + Medicine
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Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation
All experts agreed there's nothing to worry about if you don't go every day.
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