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The Bottom 20
Are the poorest 20% of Americans richer than most of the world? By Nicholas Ward It is better to be poor in America than rich anywhere else? A study by 'justfacts.com' has found that the poorest 20% of Americans are richer than most Europeans. Can this possibly be true? No. In fact, not only are the poorest 20% of American’s not richer than most Europeans Americans are the poorest people in any MEDC (More Economically Developed Country), by a wide margin. Conservative think t
Nicholas Ward
May 3, 2021


Canada’s Deadly Rail
Poor Regulations and powerful lobbying groups creating a time bomb for Canadians. In 2013 a freight train crashed in Lac Megantic Quebec,...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 30, 2020


International Students in for a rude shock in future job market
By Nicholas Ward Having graduated from Concordia last year I began the long hard search for a job only to be confronted with a rude and...
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Aug 11, 2020


Public Service Bashing Politicians Enjoy Weekly Flights Home
By Nicholas Ward Following the sports rorts scandal it should be no surprise that Scomo has jumped on the liberal party’s long tradition...
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Jul 8, 2020


The Politicians Can’t Hear You.
Published in 'Woroni' April 2020 https://issuu.com/woroni/docs/edition_2_sex/14 By Nicholas Ward On Tuesday over one thousand Australians...
Nicholas Ward
Apr 15, 2020


$50 Strawberry’s. Japans obsession with ‘gift fruit’.
By Nicholas Ward If you are travelling to Japan and staying with locals at any point you may consider dropping by Sembikiya Fruit...
Nicholas Ward
Mar 17, 2020


Shining the light on Bernie Blindness.
Since 2016 supporters of Bernie Sanders have decried what they see as a campaign by powerful elements of the democratic party to try and...
Nicholas Ward
Mar 10, 2020
2020 Democratic Primaries Klobuchar withdraws.
Why underdogs run for presidents. By Nicholas Ward With the withdrawal of Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Sawyer from the...
Nicholas Ward
Mar 2, 2020
Everyone agrees, The British Electoral System is Broken
And why that’s unlikely to change. By Nicholas Ward Following the December election, the British Conservative party have claimed a...
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Feb 18, 2020


The Valentines Phantom
By Nicholas Ward If you find yourself in beautiful city of Montpelier, Vermont around February 14th you might encounter the mysterious...
Nicholas Ward
Feb 14, 2020
The Death of Public Broadcasting
By Nicholas Ward With Boris Johnson’s (unrepresentative) landslide election victory the UK is preparing for Brexit celebration and...
Nicholas Ward
Jan 15, 2020


How Concordia is Preparing For the Anti-Sexual Violence Legislation
Published January 8, 2019. The Link Magazine. Montreal, Canada The deadline for Concordia, and other Quebec universities, to meet its...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Concordia Victim Blames Survivors
Research into university funding surround sexual violence led me to write this article. I felt strongly that Concordia and McGill were...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Seeking the Truth in the Age of Fake News
Published December 3, 2018. Journews. Montreal, Canada Quebec news may attract a smaller audience than U.S. politics but the francophone...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Baba Desi, Wizard of the Dandenongs
An article about an eccentric activist in Melbourne. His determination, and flamboyancy made him a character irresistible to interview. Published September 2018 Swine Magazine, Melbourne, Australia. Baba Desi, 2017, Courtesy of Edward Foo The mist hangs low over the primordial rainforests of Melbourne, eucalyptus trees tower above, their pale trunks create a ghostly visage, everything is silent, the plants sway silently in the wind. The quite is broken by the sonorous tapping
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Montreal's extreme eaters hunger for new challenges
By, Lissa Albert, Amanda Henderson Jones, Nicholas Ward · for CBC News · Posted: Apr 18, 2019 Published Apr 18 2019 on CBC Montreal: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-s-extreme-eaters-hunger-for-new-challenges-1.5093147 Check out another side to the city's foodie culture, where it's about how much and how fast you can eat Veronica Baggia gets ready to try to beat her own record, set in 2017, when she finished Pizza Spano's extra-large meat lover's pizza in 18 m
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Sexual Harassment Funding
Last year McGill and Concordia were rocked by accusations of widespread sexual harassment, and an administration uninterested in helping...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


An Unexpected Encounter at the Jazz Festival
The night was cool, the overpriced drinks flowed fast, and for the first time that week, the cool down zones were empty. After days of...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Profile: Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis’ tough calloused hands gripped his steering wheel, he had just seen a ghost. Curtis had driven down the small road of his...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019


Riding Profile: Rosemont
Not all ridings are exciting political grounds to cover. However, in the current Quebec provincial elections, the Rosemont Riding holds a...
Nicholas Ward
Sep 10, 2019
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