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  • Southern Neighbours

    Southern Neighbours

    For better or for worse the world grows smaller. It is no longer a disjointed system of states vying for domestic and regional control, it is an internationally connected entity which allows no action to exist in a vacuum. Migratory flows of people displaced from their country of origin have become pivotal issues for many…

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  • Social capital in the Urban Sprawl

    Between our homes and our work spaces lies another, a space that sociologists have described as a “third space.”  These places consist of surroundings that draw people of varying walks of life together.  Places where we interact with one another, expressly or tacitly.  They can be as simple in their functions as grocery stores, or

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  • The Canadian Budget

    The federal equalisation program is a system in which the redistribution of federal tax revenue is allocated, through a number of transfer funds, to provinces that fall below a standard of fiscal capacity. The political effect of the transfer system is that regional cleavages are potentially accentuated.  The equation that is used to determine the

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  • Apathy in time.

    I felt a second nudge against my arm.  I wasn’t sure when the first occurred, but I knew this one would fully remove me from the blank slate of a deep sleep.  She was lying next to me, her makeup still on, my clothes crumpled at the foot of the bed. “Your phone keeps buzzing”

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  • Apathy in time.

    “Pull the curtain back the light is killing me” “No” I said with a breath, “the sun’s nice today”.  I smiled as my eyes adjusted to the day, the trees were frozen in place and a light blue sky pushed downward.  She pulled the covers back and grumbled.  I looked over to the mound of

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