Climate abnormalities are increasingly becoming a cause of political unrest and the resulting social chaos that is sending record numbers of the world’s people in forced migrations as refugees. The United Nations estimates that more than 30 million people are presently displaced on the planet because of environmental factors, either directly related or lurking behind in some secondary but pivotal role. For example, the civil war that has wracked Syria for almost 14 years was triggered by a drought.
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Danny Ramadan, the enduring storyteller
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Danny Ramadan has an intriguing way of answering a question.
“Let me tell you a story,” the Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker and longtime advocate for queer refugees says.
Ramadan is in every way a storyteller, a hakawati, who builds lyrical narrative around dichotomies; contrasting beauty with ugliness, tenderness with violence, love and loathing, all interwoven with memories bitter and sweet.
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Watching the war from Townsite
qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
After work on the evening of Wednesday, February 23, Rostik Artiushenkov and Anna Honcharova relaxed at their Townsite home, deciding what to watch on Netflix.
Soon, both were stuck to their phones, watching Instagrammed images of rockets flying over Kyiv – where Anna went to university. After weeks of posturing, Russia had invaded Ukraine.
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