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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…