Tag: Human Rights

• On the Road Again

  Hello wanderers! It would seem that about every two years, I get the itch to go on an adventure. Usually, these trips line up with a milestone in my life – a graduation, a major birthday, etc. And every time, I justify each trip by saying “it’s probably my last chance…” I think it’s important […]

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  January 15, 2016

  Travel

  backpacking, Canadian politics, conflict resolution, Europe, Eurotrip, Germany, global politics, Human Rights, India, international affairs, Montreal, music festival, On the Road Again, Osheaga, Ottawa, practicum, recipe, South Africa, Spain, TRC, UN Study Tour, UN Women, United Nations, Willie Nelson, women’s rights, Zambia

• Rory Gilmore, role model

  Hello readers! The theme of this semester seems to be ‘investigative journalism’, and I’m all for it. I mean, one of my favourite fictional TV role models, Rory Gilmore of The Gilmore Girls (now on Netflix – goodbye spare time), wanted to be a journalist and liked to do undercover, investigative pieces. If she can […]

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  January 16, 2015

  Books

  Adrienne Arsenault, Alexis Bledel, All The President’s Men, Carl Bernstein, CBC, Charlie Hebdo, democracy, holding power to account, Human Rights, investigative journalism, Peter Mansbridge, reporting, Rory Gilmore, The Gilmore Girls, The University of Winnipeg

• The Mockingjay Effect

  How the Hunger Games is transcending into the everyday… Hello readers! Last Saturday, my friend Kaeri and I embarked on our annual Christmas shopping adventure. It’s something we have been doing for almost 10 years (yeah, that doesn’t make me feel old…) and I look forward to it every holiday season – it’s one of my […]

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  December 5, 2014

  Books

  Books, Human Rights, justice, military coup, Mockingjay, Mockingjay movie, movies, peace, peaceful protest, propaganda, protest, social justice, social movement, Suzanne Collins, Thailand, The Hunger Games

• Why I went to Sachsenhausen

  I am currently reading Jody Picoult’s The Storyteller. My friend Jessica, a fellow lover of literature, recommended it to me this summer. She told me it was her favourite book written by Picoult and she also warned me that it was an intense read. I’m grateful that she gave me the heads up because this book […]

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  October 17, 2014

  Books

  concentration camp, Human Rights, Sachsenhausen, the Holocaust, The Storyteller