On July 2nd, Canada’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion. The appeal, made by British Columbia’s First Nations Indigenous groups, represented a major opportunity for preventing the controversial project. Since its purchase in 2018 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, the pipeline’s
White supremacist sentiments in the United Kingdom came to a head on the 13th of June, as London’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement cancelled its protest due to fears of violent reprisal from various far-right groups. These fears were confirmed when crowds, largely compromised of white men, descended on London. Paul
On May 19th, 2020, the Hungarian government approved new legislation to end legal recognition of its transgender citizens. Deputies of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán approved the controversial amendments to laws surrounding birth, death and marriage registry which will prevent any attempts to change a person’s documented “sex at birth” to
The United States’ first official COVID-19 death to occur while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody was reported on Wednesday, May 6th. The 57-year-old man from El Salvador contracted the virus in the Otay Mesa Detention Center in California and was hospitalized in late April, according to the San
On April 28th, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that companies using offshore tax havens would be ineligible for the next round of government COVID-19 financial aid. Trudeau had refused to make these concessions the previous week but reversed his position after pressure from the Bloc Québécois party. The Prime Minister
On April 12th, a substantial report detailing internal sabotage from within the United Kingdom’s Labour party was leaked to Sky News. The conspirators’ actions play into a larger picture of mass media bias, smear campaigns and breaches of political protocol which have hobbled Labour campaigns for years. Viewed as a whole, these events paint
On April 1st, Brazil saw the first official coronavirus case in a member of its indigenous population. The 20-year-old woman was a member of the Kokama community, located in the district of Santo Antonio do Içá. By April 9th, at least seven indigenous Brazilians had tested positive for the virus. The
COVID-19 caught the United Kingdom at a time of political instability. The Conservative Party confirmed its Brexit withdrawal from the European Union on January 31st, 2020. However, this did not entail immediate chaos in the nation, since the U.K. retains its place in the European Union until January 2021 thanks
Last month, the message “March is coming!” began appearing among Chile’s teeming political graffiti. On Monday 2nd of March, Chilean high-school students made good of the writing on the wall, taking to the streets in a mass organization of country-wide marches, sit-ins, walkouts and actions. This resurgence of student activism
On Monday 24th February, a local Polish voivodeship (the largest Polish administrative unit) postponed a planned vote on “pro-family” resolutions “against LGBTQ propaganda” to allow for more debate in committees. Województwo Wielkopolskie (Greater Poland Voivodeship) is Poland’s 3rd most populous administrative unit, home to nearly 3.5 million people, and would
On Friday 14th February, police in Germany arrested twelve German citizens allegedly belonging to a far-right extremist terrorist cell. The media are referring to the group as ‘Der Harte Kern’ (The Hard Core) after the name of one of its group chats, as revealed by Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The
