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Though the United States is by far the strongest economy in the world, our airports leave something to be desired. Wherever you fly domestically, terminal buildings are often outdated, logistics don’t make sense, and unwelcoming flight gates make any delays an obnoxious burden. European and Middle Eastern airports, with their glitz and glamor, routinely put…
DELHI – It’s only fitting that a conference dedicated to the eradication of smoking tobacco would be held in a city caked with smog pollution. Last week in Noida, a southeastern suburb of New Delhi, delegates from over 180 countries filed out of tour buses for the World Health Organization’s seventh Conferences of the Parties…
By Yaël Ossowski | Huffington Post Canada Using the image of a puppet pulled by strings from above by a mysterious figure, the World Health Organization is pulling out all the stops in its effort to turn public opinion against the tobacco industry. The oft-used trope is a popular one in modern conspiracy theories, that…
Brazil Partners with WHO to Track Tobacco, Alcohol Industries My article in the PanAm Post.
Source: YouTube His name is Maxime Bernier and he has all the great qualities of a small-town politician. He makes a point of visiting every part of his constituency while he’s in office. He saves resources by not printing up posters at election time, and he gets elected with higher and higher margins each time,…
Is Classical Liberalism the Fix for Canada’s Disgruntled Conservatives? By Yaël Ossowski | October 7th, 2015 | PanAm Post How often do you find a Canadian politician willing to criticize both intervention in the Middle East and the Dairy Commission in the same breath? At least for the Libertarian Party of Canada, they’re two issues…
By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post Just 20 seconds after crossing the Croatian border, our car was already being tailed by a police sedan. I gripped the wheel a bit tighter and tried to issue a hand signal to the group behind us. 5-0 on our tail. He followed our cars for a good 10…
Immigration Restrictions Create Distinctions, Not Skin Color Yaël Ossowski | March 26, 2015 | PanAm Post Is classifying white westerners as “expats” and others as “immigrants” when they live outside their home countries racist? That’s the question put forward by Mawuna Remarque Koutonin on the Guardian website last week: “Why are white people expats when…
Maple Muscle at the Beck and Call of Military Allies Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post January 22, 2015 Canada’s reputation as a peacekeeping nation has drastically changed in the last decade. (Gopixpic) “Canadians want to live in peace,” declared Prime Minister John Diefenbaker to the nation in 1960 in the midst of the ongoing Cold War….
Civil Liberties Hang by a Thread in Western World Yaël Ossowski | December 18, 2014 | PanAm Post Within hours of the October 22 shootings in Ottawa’s Parliament, which killed one Canadian soldier, the Canadian population, still reeling from the brazen attack, braced for a new round of anti-terrorism legislation. It was to be expected….