Siwon Jengsuksavat ’23 Contributor After an extremely tight and nasty election, candidate Yoon Suk Yeol of the People Power Party won with 48.56% of ballots to 47.83% of ballots to the ruling Democratic party. Yoon was officially sworn in as President on May 10, 2022, for a five-year term. The two major parties in this... Continue Reading →

Nathan Poklar ’24 Contributor Before Russia invaded Ukraine, very few outside of Ukraine knew who Volodymyr Zelensky was. Yet, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Zelensky has solidified himself as the face of the Ukrainian national identity. In 2019, Zelensky was elected President as an independent candidate in a landslide election. Viewed as an... Continue Reading →

Ryan Waller ’24 Contributor The lives of those in Poland in the 1980s consisted of work, hunger, and fear. My grandparents and my mother both suffered under the rule of the communist government in Poland. Following the Second World War, Poland had a Russian puppet government. The Polish people and Polish government officials feared Russia,... Continue Reading →

William Hudson ’24 Contributor It’s time to replace the United Nations After the disastrous Second World War and the League of Nations’ failure to stop it, world leaders created a new multinational organization: the United Nations (UN). The UN, like its predecessor, aims to prevent wars by encouraging international dialogue, safeguarding human rights, and seeking... Continue Reading →

Sean Ehmann ’24 Contributor The United States is a polarized nation. Congress is sharply divided along party lines and executive policies shift drastically from one administration to the next. However, the third branch of government is meant to stay above partisan squabbles, to be truly neutral referees for these political shenanigans. That is, of course,... Continue Reading →

Baljot Rai '24 Contributor Climate change is a global phenomenon, impacting the world indiverse ways. Droughts are causing food shortages, acid rain is causing complications in the fishingindustry, and poverty is greatly increasing. Analyzing and assessing the impacts of climate changeon ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at the regionaland global levels, the Intergovernmental Panel on... Continue Reading →

Ben Swistun ’22Contributor Energy production is something North Americans take for granted, but the effects of reliance onhostile powers’ power is felt right now across the Western world. Despite Canada’s high gas prices,we are relatively unscathed compared to Germany. Thanks to political pressure against nuclear power, Germany is heavily reliant on domestic coal and oil... Continue Reading →

Emmitt Wilson '22 Politics Editor Eight years ago, in February and March of 2014, a political and military crisis racked Eastern Europe. After years of covertly supporting separatists in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, Russia staged an invasion. Crimea was taken over, completely and formally annexing the region in just two weeks. Since 2014, Crimea... Continue Reading →

Nathan Poklar '24 On January 29, the so-called “Freedom Convoy” arrived in Ottawa. Their goal? Protest the recently introduced vaccine mandates in the trucking industry. Both the Liberal Party and the NDP have condemned this protest. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the protesters, telling them to “go home” and calling them an “insult to truth,”... Continue Reading →

Baljot Rai '24 Contributor Plastic pollution is one of the largest issues facing society today. The economy, the environment, and the way we live our lives are being irreparably changed. Canadian beaches, parks, and shorelines that we cherish are defiled by billions of micro-plastics. While all of us can play a small part toward keeping... Continue Reading →