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For some Columbia students, protest encampment is living history lesson
Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968" about protests against the Vietnam War, a similarly galvanizing moment of campus activism. Frank Guridy, the Columbia history professor who has taught the class since 2017, along with a couple of his students stopped by the encampment at the New York City campus on Thursday to discuss the parallels at a teach-in called "1968: Continuing
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'The world is too messy for bureaucratic hurdles': Canada still bars Afghanistan aid
Ottawa has plans to finally stop blocking Canadian development aid to Afghanistan this year. But by the time its new system is fully up and running, the Taliban will have been in control of the country for about three years. Humanitarian organizations say that's an interminable delay for those who need help, especially since other countries moved more quickly to unblock aid flows. "It's extremely frustrating, if I can put it as nicely as I can," said Asma Faizi, head of the Afghan Women's Organi
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Abbas, international leaders to hold Gaza talks in Riyadh this week
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and several international officials will be in Riyadh this week for talks aimed at pushing for a peace agreement in Gaza to be held on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting, the WEF's president said on Saturday. "We do have the key players now in Riyadh and hopefully the discussions can lead into a process towards reconciliation and peace," Børge Brende said at a news conference in Riyadh, adding that Gaza's humanitarian crisis would be on the agend
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Surgeon general urges measles vaccine among military amid rise in cases, positive member
Soldiers at Base Gagetown in New Brunswick and other members of the military across the country are being urged to ensure they and their families are up to date on their measles vaccinations.Maj.-Gen. Scott Malcolm, the surgeon general for the Canadian Armed Forces, issued a notice earlier this month to raise awareness of the risks and the importance of being vigilant."Measles is highly contagious – on average, one case leads to 18 more, if unvaccinated," he said in the memo, obtained by CBC New
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Local bookstores provide an experience the competition can't match, says retailer
Independent booksellers in Nova Scotia say community support has allowed them to thrive in the face of competition from online retailers.Many independent bookstores in the province and around the country will mark Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday.Charlotte Ashley of Trident Booksellers and Café in downtown Halifax has been in the business for 20 years.She said many bookstores when out of business when Amazon came on the scene. But she said the public is now realizing that local boo
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Officials say new Glace Bay youth facility will be transformational for generations
New life is coming to the site of a former machine shop for the coal mining business in the heart of Glace Bay, N.S.A ceremonial sod turning was held Friday in an empty field next to a parking lot and a well-used skate park to kick off construction of a $15-million youth and family centre.The project is targeted at a community with an industrial past that officials say has one of the highest youth poverty rates in the province."The well-being of our children and our youth today is one of the bes
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Exploration of lesbian fiction from the '50s, '60s asks how much has changed, really?
It was the 1950s when a desperate young woman, rejected by her family because of her sexuality, walked into a drugstore, intent on taking her own life that day.Inside the shop, the woman spotted a book cover featuring two women — a novel by American author Ann Bannon, the so-called Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction whose salacious stories of forbidden love served as one of the few representations of homosexuality at the time.The young woman purchased the book and read it in one sitting on a bench, s
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