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What’s Next for Syria

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I and the public know, What every school child has to learn, He who has evil done to him, Will do evil in return.   H. Auden, 1939   In exchange for six years, five-hundred thousand lives, and the destruction of all things agreeable, Syria has secured its own immolation. The first protests in March 2011, which later turned into armed opposition, were intended to lighten the yoke of...

The Syrian Refugee Crisis

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Can Public Opinion Change Canada’s Refugee Laws? On 2 September 2015, the bodies of brothers Alan (3) and Galib (5) Kurdi washed up on a beach in southern Turkey. The boys drowned alongside their mother Rehan after the boat carrying them and eight other Syrian refugees capsized on its way from Turkey to Greece. Photos of Alan Kurdi’s body lying facedown in the surf are now ubiquitous in the...

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