Opinion articles on US and Canadian politics. Curated by the Social Issues Editors.
There was more than one thing wrong with TDSBs Attempt to Close Specialized Programs. … More What Was Wrong With the TDSBs Attempt to Close Specialized Programs
The Golden Falcon responds to the Sexual Harassment Allegations in Hollywood … More Let’s Talk About Those Sexual Harassment Allegations
By Vanessa Ifepe Twenty four NFL players at Wembley Stadium in London, took a knee during the American National Anthem in protest of Donald Trump. This was after Trump made a comment about players who take a knee during the anthem needing to be fired. Time and time again, Trump has proven to get under people’s … More Take a Knee Campaign
After a mass shooting in America, the news is overtaken by the event. The conversation however, has little focus on gun control laws. … More 20 ccs of Gun Control, Stat!
By Sophie Gold Change can be scary. And high school definitely means change. The prospect of entering high school was never far from my thoughts over the summer. I felt anxious and excited, apprehensive and eager all at the same time. The Labour Day weekend was less a vacation than an extended waiting game before the … More This Is Me In Grade Nine
April 25th, 2017, is a grey day in Moosonee, Ontario, as the Polar Bear Express rolls into Moosonee station. Snow piles up beside the dirt roads, maintained by the chilly -5ºC weather, a stark contrast from Toronto’s warm, wet spring. … More What’s Really Scary this Halloween: The Way We Ignore Remote Communities
As of September 19, 2017, over 400,000 stateless Rohingya Muslims have been forced to leave their homes in Myanmar and flee into neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Thailand and Malaysia. … More Ethnic Cleansing is Still Very Much With Us
By Josh Blatt Why was technology made in the first place? This is a question that people should be asking themselves far more frequently, as it outlines many of the problems that exist with its use in modern society. Technology was first made to make people’s lives easier. For example, farms used to require several … More The Dark Side of Technology
The denial of the issues in our criminal justice system does nothing to help anyone but instead makes them even more difficult to address. … More It Is Past Time for Prison Reform
By: Sabrina Negeri In collaboration with Editors The best predictor of future behavior is often past behavior. In the past, not only has the Canadian Government idly sat by as horrendous crimes were committed against Aboriginals, many attempts of reconciliation have failed. Aboriginals had been in North America for thousands of years before the Europeans … More Aboriginal Minority Rights
By: Rachel Nirenberg The Truth and Reconciliation report, published in 2015, contains ninety four calls to action, each with several subsections. If followed to the letter, the Truth and Reconciliation report could greatly ameliorate the circumstances faced by Aboriginal people both on and off reserve. However, if history is any indication, it is unlikely that the … More How the Canadian Government is Continuing to Fail Aboriginal People – Opinion
Please note: the following is an opinion piece By: Brandon Kaufman In 1980, Quebec held a referendum that asked if its citizens desired a province with “sovereign-association” to Canada. Sixty percent of Quebecers rejected this change in dynamic. In 1995, another referendum put it more bluntly: Did Quebec wish to separate from the rest of … More A Separate Quebec – Opinion