This fall is the 10th anniversary of the horrific terrorism attack on the Taj Mahal Hotel that left 164 dead and hundreds more wounded. Today in The Conversation Canada, Joseph McQuade of the University of Toronto and Emily LeDuc of Queen’s University explore the story of the Mumbai attack and how it’s now a major feature film that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Canadians aren’t paid for donating blood, but Vida Panitch of Carleton University and Chad Horne of Franklin & Marshall College explore a controversial new development where a private plasma company is offering gift cards to donors. The authors say it’s wrong for a private company to profit from the sale of Canadian blood products, but that doesn’t mean donors shouldn’t be compensated.

It’s been two weeks since the shocking court ruling that halted construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline extension. Mark Winfield from York University explains why any hopes of a quick and easy political solution to get the project back on track is very unlikely.

And finally…John Colarusso of McMaster University, who served as an adviser on Russia to the Clinton White House, takes a deep look at what might have been behind an unusual visit to Washington by top Russian intelligence officials earlier this year. Was it part of Vladimir Putin’s larger plan to cause chaos? Read on to find out!