Ann Mallen 7C0, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Ever since 7 th  grade when I first learned of Ghandhi’s nonviolent protests, I’ve often pondered the elusiveness of peace. Someone once said to me, “Humans just aren’t wired to be peaceful,” and I disagreed. Yet, I acknowledge that it’s challenging to believe in humanity’s altruism when frequent, often horrific, violence erupts.   This is why we need Dr. Benjamin A. Peters, a p

Richard Sandbrook Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Canada must reject participation in Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile-defence project, and soon, to minimize the fall-out from the US president. This latest version of “Star Wars” will prove ineffective, at enormous cost, against a modern missile offensive, while militarizing space. This is the conclusion of numerous experts. To adopt such a defensive shield would upset the nuclear deterrence principle of mutually assured de

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