Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has squeaked through to win a minority government. As Jeremy Wildeman explains, Trudeau was on the ropes throughout the campaign, just four years after his meteoric rise to power and global fandom. Though the world might have been surprised at his struggles, that wasn’t the case for Canadian progressives who first helped propel him to those heights four years ago.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a global health emergency. Emma Glennon and Freya Jephcott set out how the country’s seriously weak health system has stymied efforts to bring the outbreak to an end.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to supporters at a rally in Vancouver on the eve of the country’s election.
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Jeremy Wildeman, University of Bath
For international observers, it may be stunning to see Justin Trudeau's government reduced to a minority after his meteoric rise to power in 2015. It happened because he disappointed his progressive base.
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UNICEF carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak.
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Emma Glennon, University of Cambridge; Freya Jephcott, University of Cambridge
The emergency in the DRC shows that despite all these positive changes, the global response to containing Ebola outbreaks is undermined by the lack of health care and public health infrastructure.
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Arts + Culture
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Caroline Bressey, UCL
Despite the millions used in the transatlantic slave trade and Britain benefitting from their forced labour, a national memorial is proving difficult.
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Gerard de Kamper, University of Pretoria
Fake copies of works by legendary black South African modernist artists are flooding the market - and one university is deploying a range of scientific tests to expose them.
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En français
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Jihane Sfeir, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Près de 30 ans après la fin de la guerre, rien n’a changé au Liban : le système d’éducation et de santé publique est en faillite et la pénurie d’électricité et d’eau potable est chronique.
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Paule Latino-Martel, Inra; Fabrice Pierre; Mathilde Touvier, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)
En octobre, un article scientifique concluant qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de limiter sa consommation de viandes rouges ou transformées a déclenché un tollé. Décryptage d’une polémique inutile.
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