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#Justice For Zainab News 

#Justice For Zainab

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018, news had broken out about the rape and murder of an 8-year-old Pakistani girl. Zainab Ansari’s brutal and inhuman murder fueled the spark to a worldwide revolution, the people erupting in protests and demanding for justice to be served not just to Zainab’s family but to the 12 other cases of child rape in the city of Kasur which remain to be solved. Young Zainab’s parents had left the country in order to perform Islamic pilgrimage, leaving her under the protection of relatives and family….

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Justin Trudeau’s Indian Blunder News 

Justin Trudeau’s Indian Blunder

You may have all seen the numerous photos of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family in flashy colourful Indian dresses, if not, then you’re probably living under a rock because it made news headlines around the world. These photos were taken in India, where the prime minister was embarked on an official diplomatic mission. But it wasn’t just the colorful dresses that made the news, it was the trip itself that many observers might have found peculiar. Why would that be, isn’t it normal for politician to go on…

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Blind Truth: Yet Another Humanitarian Crisis News 

Blind Truth: Yet Another Humanitarian Crisis

Editor’s Note: We were fortunate enough to have received two articles about the situation in Myanmar, and we’ve combined paragraphs from both articles, as they are complementary to each other.   Despite not being widely publicized by the media, the Rohingya people, situated in South-Asia, are experiencing what any humanitarian would call a genocide. The Rohingyas are primarily Muslims and reside in Rakhine state in the majority Buddhist country of Myanmar. This group of individuals is considered to be stateless as they have been denied citizenship in Myanmar for over…

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The 2018 Provincial Election is Getting Off To An Early Start News 

The 2018 Provincial Election is Getting Off To An Early Start

The next scheduled provincial election is on October 1st, 2018, a little less than a year from now. Before 2013, election dates were not fixed, the Premier of Québec had the power to set the date of an election as long as it came under the 5-year term limit set by the constitution. This process gave an advantage to the party in power, as they would have the upper hand in knowing the date of the election and also have the power to call an election when opinion polls were…

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Vanier Insider Election Documents – New Editor in Chief needed for Winter 2018 Campus News Voices 

Vanier Insider Election Documents – New Editor in Chief needed for Winter 2018

Good day, one and all. I hope you all had a wonderful fall. I, Editor-in-Chief BeN, am graduating. This is my final semester, and as it draws to a close, I need to start thinking about who will take the torch and light the way for the Insider next semester. Anyone interested in becoming the next Editor-in-Chief should contact me via Mio (Benjamyn Upshaw-Ruffner) or come by our office (D-168). There is a form that one must fill out in order to become The Editor-in-Chief, and the elections will be…

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Montréal elects its first female Mayor News 

Montréal elects its first female Mayor

375 years after Jeanne Mance became one of the co-founders of Montréal, the city elected its first female Mayor. It was a historic night as Valérie Plante, the leader of “Projet Montréal”, pulled off an upset and was elected 45th Mayor of Montréal. She defeated one-term incumbent Denis Coderre, making it the first time since the 1960s a sitting mayor was denied a second term. For months leading up to the campaign and for most of the campaign, nobody taught she had a chance. However, Plante is one for pulling…

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Trump and the JFK assassination News 

Trump and the JFK assassination

On November 22nd, 1963 at 12:30 P.M. in Dallas, Texas, president John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a gunshot wound in his car. His alleged murderer: Former U.S. Marine, Lee Harvey Oswald. While sitting in his convertible limousine minutes before his death, Mrs. Kennedy turned towards her husband and told him; “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,”. To which he responded, “No, you certainly can’t.” In fact, it was estimated that about 200,000 people came to see him drive through the streets of Dallas.   The assassination…

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Orange Shirt Day: In Honor and in Memory Campus News 

Orange Shirt Day: In Honor and in Memory

Government-run residential schools for indigenous children came to an end twenty years ago, in ‘96. Their legacy, however, lives on. While residential schools were terminated officially in ’96, the practice continues surreptitiously because of the realities of our economy:  for example, northern towns and villages in Ontario haven’t got the resources to run high schools, and the young teenage population has to move to Thunder Bay to continue its education. Young people are still suffering the alienation of being away from their homes and families just like they did during…

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Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship News 

Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship

Call for Applications: Please encourage students who like to write fiction, poetry, personal essays or other creative work, and who have good grades in English, to apply for the Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship. Meg Sircom was an English teacher at our college from 2001-2011. She was a fiction writer, and valued both academic and creative writing. Scholarship amount: $500 Deadline for applications: November 6, 2017 Requirements: The applicant must be a student at Vanier College during the A17 semester. The student has received final grades of 80%+ in at least…

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