Nicholas Roberts

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    It’s On Us to Fight Climate Change

    Over the last few centuries, we have released so many fossil fuels into the atmosphere that it now contains 42 per cent more carbon dioxide than it did during the pre-industrial period.

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    Trials and Triumphs of Black Canadians

    In spite of their resilience, the obstacles for hopeful Black migrants were proving to be many.

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    Selective Mourning: Terror and the Media Across the World

    When the bombings in Paris gripped the hearts of so many, the bombing in Lebanon, occurring the day before, flew under the radar. Over the past several months, in fact, Iraq, Mali, Pakistan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and the Ivory Coast all have been sites of attacks. Yet little is known about those tragedies.

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    Who Do We Trust?

    What is true for individuals tends also to be true for society in general. That is why even one case of police brutality is too many. It chokes the life out of the living, breathing faith that, as human beings, we have certain fundamental and inalienable rights regardless of merit.