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Life of the Coronavirus Crisis and Canada’s Foreign Relations
Saira Khan The present Coronavirus projections in Canada demonstrate that the virus is here to stay till a vaccination is on the market. Since the virus…
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5G, Bill Gates and anti-vaxxers: how mad conspiracies set SA up for tragedy
Justice Malala We know how the story of all these Covid-9 conspiracy theories will end. We have seen it all before. The story ends with the…
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Authoritarianism masking incompetence? The case of the Republic of Cyprus
Authoritarianism, left unchecked to shape the public discourse, can self-propel and legitimise itself, diverting the blame for a degraded public health system from the state onto…
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Bangladeshi children face risk from pandemic
The country's youngest residents must not be allowed to become 'collateral damage' of the Covid-19 crisis Shamim Jahan The Covid-19 pandemic is the defining global health…
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Doomsday’ for informal workers as COVID-19 rocks the economy
Economic turmoil and government measures to curb the coronavirus have dealt a cruel blow to workers in the informal sector, where layoffs go unrecorded and people…
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If Trump Declares Martial Law Due to Coronavirus, Can He Suspend the Election?
There is no dearth of examples suggesting that President Donald Trump lives in an alternate reality. But his belief that the coronavirus “came out of nowhere”…
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Politics and pandemics in the age of social media
Behind Trump and Modi’s contrasting approaches, there is a similarity. Both are playing to their strengths Arghya Sengupta United States (US) President Donald Trump repeatedly said…
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Media Struggle to Defend Washington’s Cruelty Toward Venezuela and Iran as Coronavirus Spreads
Joe Emersberger examines the media's response to Washington's clamping down on Venezuela and Iran in times of global pandemic. Joe Emersberger An Associated Press article (New…
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Covid-19: Protecting the vulnerable
What can the government do to soften the blow? Mamun Rashid No crisis in recent memory has been more universally felt than the Covid-19. Developing or…
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Bangladesh’s COVID-19 stimulus: Leaving the most vulnerable behind
Ali Riaz The Bangladeshi government’s $8 billion stimulus package, about 2.5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), primarily focuses on industries, particularly export-oriented ones.…