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  In a world where news is increasingly dominated by a few media conglomerates and razor thin budgets, it can seem like the stories that most matter to the everyday person can go uncovered. Perhaps worse yet, the stories that do get covered are glossed over and lack substance. Enter stage left: independent media! On […]

As a journalist Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades filing ground-breaking stories in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He spent more than 15 years as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and in 2002 and was part of the The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer […]

Clayton Thomas-Muller is a internationally renowned activist, writer, and public speaker focused on indigenous self-determination and environmental justice. On this week’s episode of Think, Thomas-Muller speaks about the power of people in saving Canada’s resources. The address, titled ‘The Rise of the Native Rights Based Strategic Framework: Canada’s Last Best Effort to Save the Common’ […]

According to acclaimed journalist and political pundit Andrew Coyne, there are cracks in Canada’s democratic institutions that urgently need to be fixed before they cause even further damage to our society. “We have not become a dictatorship, but we are no longer quite a democracy,” Coyne said at this year’s Faculty of Law’s Merv Leitch […]

Martin Jacques, author of ‘When China Rules the World, speaks at the University of Alberta on January 28th, 2013. In his keynote address, Jaques discusses the transformative effects that the world is experiencing, and will continue to experience, as China takes its place as a global superpower. Martin Jaques_International Week 2014