The McGill International Review

Dig Deeper: Thinking About the Climate Crisis In Light of COVID-19

The Climate Crisis has always been a crisis - but have we recognized that? Now that we've experienced the COVID-19 crisis, are we in a better place to progress on climate action at the rate that's necessary in order to avoid a global catastrophe much worse than the one we're currently living through? 

 

Dig Deeper host Ashwin Nair talks to immigration lawyer and ecosocialist candidate for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada, Meryam Haddad, to answer these questions and more! 

MIR Meets: Agnes Callamard

On this episode of MIR Meets, Mathieu Lavault sits down with Dr. Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, to discuss the murder of Mr. Khashoggi of October 2, 2018, as well on the legality of armed drones that killed Iranian General Qassam Soleimani in Iraq on January 3.

Spotlight: COVID-19 From A Public Health Perspective

This week on Spotlight, host Naomi Shi sits down with MIR Writer of the Week, Alua Kulenova, to talk about her piece 'COVID-19 is a Symptom of a Greater Global Pathology' as well as her recent interview with Dr. Timothy Evans, Executive Director of the Government of Canada's COVID-19 Task Force.

In explaining how pandemic has brought to light the health disparities across the world more blatant, Alua discusses how her interview has contributed to her article and what we can take away from the perspective of a global health professional.

MIR Meets: President Jonathan Nez of the Navajo Nation

Mathieu Lavault sits down with President Jonathan Nez of the Navajo Nation, a sovereign Native American territory situated in the U.S states of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Discussing issues concerning his nation, he touches on how his people have been fighting back against COVID-19, his disappointment with the federal government for relief funds, issues of food insecurity, and reconciliation between his nation and the US government.

MIR Meets: Dr. Ingo Sasgen

Mathieu Lavault sits down with Dr. Ingo Sasgen, a geophysicist from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. Having led an analysis that concluded that Greenland’s ice sheets lost one million tonnes of ice per minute in 2019, Dr. Sasgen discusses the transitions in the Polar climate, the melting of Greenland’s ice cap, and its impact on Earth in the centuries to come.

MIR Meets: Jean Casella

Mathieu Lavault sits down with Jean Casella, co-director of Solitary Watch, an organization dedicated to bringing the horrors of solitary confinement and other forms of torture in US prisons and jails into the public light. Aiming to demonstrate to the human rights violations that incarcerated men and women encounter in the American criminal justice system, Mrs. Casella sits down with MIR to discuss the deep-rooted issues concerning solitary confinement in jails and prisons in the United States.

Spotlight: Atticus Finch Isn't a Role Model, He's an Artifact

This week on Spotlight, host Naomi Shi sits down with MIR Writer of the Week, Elizabeth Franceschini, to discuss her Op-Ed titled “Atticus Finch Isn't a Role Model, He's an Artifact”, where she recontextualizes where To Kill a Mockingbird stands today in the era of Black Lives Matter.

MIR Meets: Peter Kuznick

Mathieu Lavault sits down with Professor Peter Kuznick, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, to discuss the US in the 1930's and 1940's - a period which is often overlooked when recounting history. Professor Kuznick discusses Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and how the dismantling of the New Deal transformed American Politics from WWII to now.

MIR Meets: Andy Udelsman

Host Mathieu Lavault sits down with Andy Udelsman, a Legal Fellow at the Texas Civil Rights Project based in Austin, Texas where he works to advance the movement for equality and justice inside and outside of the law courts. Having previously worked at  the southern border of the United States to protect the voices of the immigrants seeking refuge in the country, Mr. Udelsman discusses immigration, ICE, and illegal expulsions and detentions at the border.

MIR Meets: Wendell Adjetey

Host Mathieu Lavault sits down with Professor Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, a historian of twentieth-century United States who studies the historical intersections of the US, Canada, and the African Diaspora. Professor Adjetey joined McGill’s Department of History and Classical Studies last year, and he discusses the impacts of colonialism, slavery, the identity of black North Americans, and the James McGill statue.