Recent India–Pakistan border clashes have brought the dispute over Kashmir to the global forefront once again. In this podcast, Côme Cabrère is joined by former Editor-in-Chief Sarie Khalid to break down the causes of the current escalation in the region, as well as its history, terrorism, and elections, in order to analyze both India and Pakistan's roles in the conflict.

On today's episode of Review Radio, Côme Cabrère dives into the growing crisis in Venezuela with the support of two student testimonies provided by Jose Andres Hernandez from the Spanish and Latin American Students’ Association of McGill University (SLASA) and MIR writer Alexandre Monnier.

Au micro de Côme Cabrère, ce deuxième podcast tente d’explorer en profondeur la crise des gilets jaunes. Il s’agit d’abord de rappeler les origines de la crise.

Notre discussion avec Lauren Naniche et Apolline Bousquet dévie ensuite sur le rôle des médias, la réponse du gouvernement, ainsi que la validité des revendications des différent acteurs. Nous terminons sur le futur du mouvement et ce que cela présage pour la politique française dans le futur.

On March 29th of this year, the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union, a day that has been coined “Brexit Day,” and stands as the culminating event of the lengthy and complex processes of negotiation that has been underway for the last 2 years.

On this episode, Bilal Virji is joined by writer Emily Hunt to take a deeper look into the reality of the consequences regarding the separation and what the UK "leaving" the European Union truly means.

Almost five decades after Nixon infamously declared drug abuse as "public enemy number one" in the United States, the efficacy of the War on Drugs as a policy measure is clear to many. For Ethan Nadelmann, who founded the Drug Policy Alliance in response to the harsh criminal justice approach, the answer lies in advocating in drug policies "grounded in science, compassion, health, and human rights." MIR's Alec Regino sat down with Nadelmann during the Marijuana Legalization Conference hosted by the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill in April.

Attributions:

Music: What Could Appear by Puddle of Infinity.

Feature Image: Taken by Unna Regino/Bilal Virji.

In 2001, Portugal took an unorthodox approach to address its drug crisis. Instead of waging a costly war on drugs and targetting users and dealers, it decided to decriminalize all drugs. In this podcast, Director-General João Castel-Branco Goulão of the Service for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD) in Portugal sat down with MIR's Alec Regino to give his insight on the lessons we can take away from Portugal and its drug policies 18 years later.

Attributions:

Music: 

What Could Appear by Puddle of Infinity.

Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Feature Image: 

João Goulão by Nuno Saraiva is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

MIR sits down with Inuk visual artist Stephen Puskas, Director of Ukiuktaktumi (2016)

In China today, as much as 16% of soil is contaminated by toxic pollutants. Anica Lanzi sits down with Dr. Angel Hsu, assistant professor at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, to discuss this mounting public health crisis.

Interview by Anica Lanzi

Edited by Patrick Beacham

Music by Adel Krais

Featured in this Episode: Dr. Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Interview by Anica Lanzi

Edited by Carlo Mole

Music Credits: "Amira" by GlobalDub

Michael Chong : le candidat pour la chefferie du Parti conservateur nous parle de Kellie Leitch, le nationalisme et la normalisation de la haine

Pendant une rencontre récente au centre-ville de Montréal, Monsieur Chong a accepté de me parler d'un nombre de questions pertinents qui se répandent dans cette campagne à la direction du Parti conservateur du Canada (PCC). Chong n'a jamais hésité de critiquer les défaillances de ses collègues conservateurs, notamment en soulignant l'importance d'un parti fédéral plus inclusif qui accueille à la fois les immigrants et les jeunes : « We need to build a much bigger conservative party that includes people from all races, religions and creeds, and we need to recruit youth and a new generation of party candidates in ridings that are more diverse. I represent that new diverse generation of Conservatives ». Le député de le conscription de Wellington-Halton Hills en Ontario, Chong a élaboré sa plateforme autour de trois principes fondamentaux et concurrents : l'opportunité économique, l'opportunité environnementale et l'opportunité démocratique.

-Benjamin Aloi, chef d'équipe des médias (MIR)