Category: News

On Saturday, February 28th, I woke up to TikTok footage of Iran bombing a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain. It was confusing, concerning, and weirdly unsurprising. Iran has been a consistent presence in world news since late 2025, as protests erupted on December 28th. Shopkeepers took to the streets after the rial, the Iranian currency, had yet again dramatically lost value. Inflation had soared to 40% and Iranian people’s quality of life had grown unbearable, all the while the Iranian government ignored obvious systemic issues, blaming drought or overconsumption for…

Photo credit: MPRnews As the magnum opus of his second administration, Donald Trump promised sweeping reforms in immigration policy and enforcement. Indeed, he campaigned on having the American federal government carry out mass-deportations of undocumented migrants, an idea seemingly borrowed from European far-right groups. With his “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the agency responsible for carrying out deportations in the U.S., the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had its budget raised to approximatelty 85B$, which makes the agency better funded than most modern militaries, including Canada’s (Center for International Policy). Trump’s…

Aggressive tariffs, intervention in the Middle East, ambitions of territorial expansion; ever since the Trump administration regained power a year ago, it has kept making bolder and more aggressive moves on the global checkerboard. Nowhere has this new era of American interventionism been more evident than in the theatrical regime change that occurred in Venezuela during the night of January 3rd, where the country’s head of state, President Nicolàs Maduro, was abducted by U.S. forces from his home. The Venezuelan leader is now awaiting trial in New York, where he…

Jeffrey Epstein : America’s Worst Rags to Riches Story (the image above is one of Jeffrey Epstein and his long-time aprtner, Ghislaine Maxwell) Who Was Jeffrey Epstein? Born to a middle-class New York family in 1953, he died in a New York jail in 2019. Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy is as disgusting as it is confusing. In 1974, while lacking any credentials, as, while he studied at NYU for three years, he never obtained his diploma, Epstein was somehow hired as a teacher of high school physics and mathematics at the…

Over 150,000 dead. Over 375,000 starving. Approximately 12 million displaced. That is the scale of the civil war in Sudan. The human brain cannot physically compute and understand such a magnitude of suffering. And yet, even as the conflict continues to claim victims in such unfathomable lengths of death and destruction, it is highly likely you have not heard much about it at all. Obviously, to even begin to understand the implications and scale of a conflict, some historical and geopolitical knowledge is needed. Sudan is no exception. In 1989,…

Everywhere in the Western world, nationalism and populism have seen a monumental rise, and now have seemed to take a hold of mainstream politics. Québec has been no exception. Even if it has sent many liberal representatives to Ottawa, it has mostly floored its provincial National Assembly with proponents of Québec nationalism, the bulk of them being members of François Legault’s CAQ party. The CAQ, though, is currently in big trouble, as its majority in parliament is at risk. It has been a part of multiple political scandals, including the…