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The Internet – Its Blessings and Curses

On August 6, 1991, the world wide web went live to the world. Within the last 27 years, this technology has fundamentally changed the world as we knew it. With the rising popularity of the internet, not only were there multiple blessings that came from it, but inevitably, there was many curses too. The Canadian charter of freedoms and rights created in 1982 protects “freedom of thought, belief,…

Living Jane Doe: Publication Ban Downfalls

For what it’s worth, publication bans are meant to protect the privacy and safety of victims and allows them to participate in the justice system without suffering negative consequences. I’ve been doing some research on women who have been victims of sexual offences and came upon an interesting paper of an anonymous Jane Doe herself, who investigates whether “the publication ban does in fact…

Implicit Bias is all around us – whether you know it or not

Many people claim that they ‘know themselves’ or that they truly understand the way their minds work and how they process information, feel emotions, and gather their thoughts. However, there is a part of ourselves that we don’t acknowledge, don’t have access to and that might make us ashamed if we were to encounter it. All of us have ideas in our head, implanted by our culture. Concepts both big…