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Ryan Wedding's once powerful criminal empire is starting to fall apart in the underworld, where money is laundered and loyalty is always conditional. Rasheed "JP Morgan" Hossain, his reliable money man, has been taken into custody, and a former accomplice who trafficked drugs with Wedding and assisted in several murders has turned informant. This insider exposed the inner workings of Wedding's hierarchy and the cartel-style execution of longtime trafficker Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia, who was killed in Medellín after assisting the FBI. Wedding's increasing paranoia is detailed in court…

When I look at the devastation in Gaza, I see more than just broken streets and shattered buildings. I see the painful layer-by-layer collapse of an entire society. It makes us face a more profound and disturbing question: is this a preview of our own future as well? I contemplate this question, how can we approve such inhuman disgusting genocide actions against people of colour, people of brown skin, people of Christians and Muslims, and still they are targets of such genocidal atrocities. The destruction raises the question of whether the divisions we observe in distant regions today…

I remember from the time I was very young, as far back as my memory goes, my parents teaching us kids the values they held dear, values that reflected the best of both Canadian and American society. Being American themselves, they had a natural pride in where they came from and the ideals they'd grown up with. "Whenever there's trouble somewhere in the world," they'd tell us, "America and Canada are there, helping out." That's what they believed, and they wanted us to believe it too. But they weren't naive about it. As people of color, both of them had faced their share of hardships in…

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education." - Martin Luther King Jr. When intelligent, considerate, and well-educated colleagues get together to brainstorm with a common goal of improving learning experiences and expanding opportunities for students, it's a truly uplifting day. A room full of people who are concerned about the long-term success of students, families, and communities is energizing. These discussions frequently go beyond conventional methods, creating room for…

Particularly after 2019, when the UCP government decided not to collect any data from the school boards because they did not want to understand or fund classroom complexities due to the increase of hundreds of thousands of new Canadians in Alberta classrooms over the next five years, why is the Alberta government ordering school boards and teachers to gather data from their classrooms and schools about the complexity of the classroom so soon after the strike? In order to quickly restore a microscopic semi-transparency for Alberta public regarding class sizes, identify the schools that…

The streets of a southeast Chicago neighbourhood that I had no business driving through were buried under thick, white sheets of snow. The car let out a single groan before dying in a ditch so deep that the doors hardly opened. My family was in a panic behind me, their words were shaking, their breaths were sharp, and every sound was like a sharp needle piercing my heart. I pushed out into the cold, attempting to make my way through a storm that didn't give a damn about my family or destination. Then I saw them, five figures, their faces becoming more distinct with each step as they…

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Behaviours like intentionally creating mistrust, backstabbing, or setting coworkers against one another are blatant signs of a toxic workplace culture that is frequently driven by insecurity, unhealthy competition. Often such divide-and-conquer or triangulation strategies, manipulative techniques employ subtle acts of gossip, and deceit to obtain an advantage for themselves. Sorting blame to escape accountability, hiding important information to cause colleagues to miss deadlines or perform poorly, claiming credit for someone else's work to appear more competent, spreading rumours to harm…

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A renewed interest in sovereignty is never the result of a single spark; rather, it is the result of a gradual buildup of grievances, identities, and aspirations that are waiting for the ideal opportunity to ignite. Discontent in Alberta is rooted in resource politics and economic pride. Sensing an opportunity, political elites blame federal energy and environmental policies for stifling provincial autonomy. New laws that empower citizen initiatives have given these resentments a tool to fight back. The defence of culture, language, and a unique identity that has always considered itself…

“And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new” - Machiavelli "The Prince" “No task is more dangerous than creating a new order, because the innovator will encounter enemies among those who benefited from the old system and only tepid support from those uncertain of the…

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” - Robert Collier “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” - Malcolm Gladwell The simplest path to getting ahead in any academic or athletic pursuit is surprisingly down-to-earth, commit to a season of focused skill building. Give yourself six to eighteen months, and spend two to four hours a day in deliberate high level skill-sets practice. Mix in a couple of lighter “recovery”…

“The one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.” Instead of starting with ideals, Machiavelli starts with the true core of human nature. He sees people for who they are, moulded by their changing circumstances, curiosity, fear, and self-interest. This is the first principle of influence. A ruler who understands these darker patterns can predict men’s actions, read them with cold proficiency, and manipulate their motivations to maintain the stability of the power structure. However, the prince is embracing a deadly falsehood if he expects virtue,…

Here is a problem. When you have a country such as Israel, exterminating and creating a genocide of Palestinian people for 2+ years, destroying every house, every school, every University, and college, every government building, every garden, every beach, every soccer field, every playground, every building, every square inch, with the American Congress and the Trump Presidency approval of tens of thousands of bombs and ammunition and missiles, what do other countries do to protect themselves against such rogue Nations? Quite simply, all nations militarize as much as possible to their…

American military continuity bombed two man boats, over 12 and counting. Ok, these two man boats are a threat to America. Trump's administration says they are not fishers, but drug runners. There are multiple nuclear submarines with 100s of nuclear warheads off the three coast of America, 5mins to 10mins of total annihilation of America. President Trump does not understand this whatsoever. In this situation, one country is being economically stifled while another has the ability to completely destroy its rival in a matter of minutes. This creates an unstable mixture where fear and poor…