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Elections Alberta finds itself in an unexpected and unwelcome spotlight, but it has nothing to do with policy or procedure. Instead, the province’s election authority is grappling with a modern political plague: a surge of digital misinformation aimed at undermining public trust in the democratic process. With the provincial referendum…
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From the window of the airplane, the Alps looked like a cooling cake dusted with icing sugar, more beautiful than I dreamed, but also more distant. I had waited for this moment for over five years, carrying within me the ache of a person who never accepted that their dream of flight was impossible. I had always feared heights, but suspended between the frozen vastness and the bitter exterior, my heart remained calm. The true terror came later, when I walked up to the passport control booth. There, the microscopic humiliation of statelessness became enormous and concrete: a human being…
In a courtroom in the Cook Islands, a judgment was handed down that carries meaning far beyond the fine itself. Handful Marine Company Ltd, a company registered in Fiji, was ordered by the Cook Islands High Court to pay a penalty of $400,000 for illegal fishing and for falsifying reports connected to the Cook Islands-flagged fishing vessel Kema. The vessel, known on the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission’s register under the identifier WCPFC/26081612A, is a working fishing boat, but it is also a symbol of a much larger challenge facing the Pacific region. For the Cook Islands and its…
